That's the philosophy behind this year's First Lego League Championship Tournament — a competition that draws thousands of students across the globe to build robots out of the popular children's toy. Hundreds of students across the Lower Mainland took part in a regional robot-building challenge Sunday at North Surrey Secondary School. Surrey students build robots0:40Grade 7 student Ryan Zhang was one of the hundreds of students, aged nine to 14, who took part. (Doug Kerr/CBC)While the Surrey tournament was mostly for bragging rights, a bigger challenge is on the horizon. Students from high schools across Canada — including North Surrey Secondary School — are in the midst of preparing for The First Robotics Challenge — an international robot-building competition.

Source: CBC News December 04, 2017 00:28 UTC