DYCI winning team. The Blue Ocean 10. |
BOCAUE,
Bulacan—A 10-high school students robotics team here will represent the country
in the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
(First) Lego League Food Factor World Festival to be held in St. Louis,
Missouri this April.
This came
after they ruled the First Lego League (FLL) Philippines
held at the Quezon City
Interactive Science
Center over the weekend,
besting 150 other students from 15 participating schools across the country.
Dubbed as the
Blue Ocean 10, the Dr. Yanga Colleges Inc., (DYCI) team is composed of Trisha
Carmela Santos, Gladys Leigh Malana, Dave Adrian Bien, Keight Dela Cruz,
Lady Alein Goleng, Tim Fabillon, Ramikurt Del Prado, Jules Martin Agsaoay,
Jonathan Alejandro, Michelle Alcanar.
All of them
are students of the DYCI
High School department
which produced the 2010 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) champions, and bagged fourth
place in the same competitions last year.
“It’s a
surprise. We never though our team will make it to the FLL World
Championships,” said Michael Yanga, the director and principal of DYCI High
School .
He said that
it is an honor to win the FLL Philippines’ first competition that earned them a
ticket to the FLL Food Factor World Festival that will be held at the America ’s Center and Edward
Jones Dome
Convention Plaza
in St. Louis , Missouri , USA .
The Food
Factor World Festival will be participated by competitors from 60 countries
from April 25 to 28.
“I’m very proud
of our students who have shown that we are really globally competitive and
Bulakenyos are truly prime movers of technology,” Yanga said,
The DYCI Blue
Ocean 10 team ruled the FLL Philippines’ championship through the students’
invention called Meat’s Anti-Germ Inspection Solution (Magis) v.2.0, a machine
that could help people from eating a contaminated meat especially pork.
Beryl Cruz,
the head coach of the DYCI Blue Ocean 10 said that Magis v.2.0, which the team
worked on for two months, also has the capacity to detect “botcha”.
Cruz is also
the head coach of DYCI Robotics team that ruled the WRO held at the SM
Convention Center in 2010; and placed fourth in the WRO held at the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) last November.
Cruz explained
that the FLL Philippines is harder than the WRO competitions noting that
it deals with real world problems like the “botcha” scare that hit Bulacan last
year.
He said that
participants in the FLL Philippines created their invention based on the “food
factor,” a theme given by FIRST that is based on their core values.
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