ALTHOUGH they come from a tiny school outside Orange with just 39 pupils, the students of Mullion Creek Public School received national recognition in the RoboCup Junior robotics building competition.
The school’s principal Gay Stone said the students were jumping out of their skin when they won first place in the Primary Dance category in the national competition.
Mrs Stone said the students were particularly thrilled with the win because they competed against larger schools from across the country.
She said the students had been researching bees and so used that theme for their entry.
Teacher Sharon Cloete said the students had to build the robots using Mindstorms EV3 Lego kits, and program them to interact with each other.
Mullion Creek came up with the idea of a queen bee that communicated with drones.
After being activated by the queen bee through a sensor, the drones drew flowers with a pen attached to their stingers.
Nick Heydon
The Land's property editor.
The Land's property editor.
