North Devon Robotics Challenge 2025
Teams of Year 7 students from Devon Schools came together on Wednesday 26th March at Petroc College in Barnstaple for the conclusion of the third annual North Devon Robotics Challenge, sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The teams, comprising four pairs of Year 7 students had been working on four challenges, which they had been provided by the event organisers, for six weeks, in after school clubs or lunchtime clubs. One of the challenges was to design a conceptual robot to help with maintenance of roads, rivers or land, while the other three challenges required Edison robots to be programmed to address specified challenges. The first programming challenge was to program the robot to drive around a figure-of-8 circuit as many times as possible in one minute, without…