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With four regional wins on three continents, the Barker Redbacks are attracting a lot of attention globally, as the team currently sit in the top ten of robotics teams in the world.
In April, the Redbacks took out their latest Regional Title at the New York City FIRST Robotics competition. The team were also awarded the Chairman’s Award for their worldwide contribution to robotics.
Earlier in the year, the Redbacks were the only Australian team to compete at the inaugural Shenzhen Regional FRC Competition in China, where the team of nine students did a sensational job building a strategy to win the tournament. In addition to this title, the team also came away with the Innovation in Control Award.
The Redbacks again took out the Regional title against 28 other teams from Australia, Taiwan and China, as well as winning the Excellence in Engineering Award. At the South Pacific Regional the following week, the team took out their third title from a pool of 43 teams, and were awarded their second Excellence in Engineering Award.
“We are currently the only team in the world to have won four regional competitions. Our students have put in endless hours designing, building and coding their robot for this year’s competitions and we are incredibly proud of their achievements,” said Barker College Robotics Co-ordinator Lael Grant.
At the world championships in Houston, Texas in late April where they competed against teams from NASA and other world class universities, the Redbacks made it all the way through to the Hopper Division Finals and achieved a final ranking of 10th.
With six Blue Banners in a single season it places the team in equal second place for the World Record.