Steam-Ed Robotics

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It is the end of an era for our STEAM-ED Robotics team as these two wonderful young men, Sam Orsler and Ryan Kayser, move on to new ventures. Over the past 4 years they have been incredibly successful, when alongside Luca Ririnui, they won the most prestigious 'Excellence Award' as well as the Robot Skills Award each year until 2023. They have represented NZ at the World Championships 3 times, including once in an online remote event when travel wasn't possible due to covid restrictions.

They have been terrific mentors for youngsters attending our robotics programmes, always willing to share their knowledge with a smile and bucket loads of enthusiasm!

Sam is off to University of Canterbury to start his tertiary education in Engineering, while Ryan pursues his flying ambitions and concentrates on Yr13 and work commitments. We are confident they will be back to see us and hope they will continue to be keen to mentor in the little bit of spare time they will have.

On behalf of the whole of STEAM-ED, Thank you Sam and Ryan for doing so much to make our robotics programme a success! We will miss you a lot.

Congratulations Luca!

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Thanks so much to Facteon for their continued support in helping our Middle School team compete in the VEX Robotics World Championships at the end of April! Our High School team won he overall Excellence Award at Nationals but sadly have decided not to go to Dallas this year, but we look forward to seeing what our younger team can do on the 27th-19th April!
As well as supporting the team for the World Championships, the team from Facteon have also offered mentorship and ongoing support to the guys as they pursue future careers. Awesome!

2023 VEX Robotics World Championship - STEAM-ED Sponsorship Announcement Facteon is proud to once again sponsor the New Zealand STEAM-ED Robotics team to compete in the 2023 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas from April 25 – May.