RoboSlam participants with Ireland’s Junior Minister for Social Protection, Kevin Humphreys.

Dr Ted Burke and a team of staff and students composed of Frank Duignan, Shannon Chance, Shane Ormonde and Damon Berry, delivered a RoboSlam workshop for primary school kids at the two day Tech Week event in Dublin Castle on Thursday 30th of April. In all, 24 children from a primary school in Foxrock were given an opportunity to build Sumo Robots as part of the Tech Week activities. There was lots of interest from other visitors to the event.

The two day Dublin Castle event, which is organised by the Irish Computer Society, also included a competition for junior social entrepreneurs, the Irish finals of the Formula Schools Challenge and the finals of inter school Scratch competition.

RoboSlam participants with the RoboSlam volunteer team.

During the course of the day the RoboSlam workshop was also visited by Junior…