The event opens Wednesday at Cobo Centre in Detroit
Windsor-Essex is going to be well represented across the border at a robotics competition.
Robotics teams from Sandwich Secondary School in LaSalle and Vincent Massey Secondary School in Windsor will be taking part in the 'For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology (FIRST) World Championship.'
The event takes place at Cobo Centre in Detroit between April 24th and the 27th, with around 46 kids per team.
Plus, a group of Grade 7 students from Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School will be competing in the 'First Lego League Into Orbit' World Championship. The grade 7 students are the only team from Windsor-Essex and one of only three from Ontario competing in this category.
Chair of Windsor-Essex FIRST Robotics Larry Koscielski told AM800's The Afternoon News there will be some stiff competition.
"It is pretty exciting, there is going to be 400 teams competing there on six fields and that's not including the junior lego and lego programs as well," he says.
Koscielski says the robotics team began organizing in the fall.
"The teams need to have the infrastructure like any business would, so you have people that are doing mechanical and electrical design and programming and so on, but you have people taking care of accounting and communications," he says.
Koscielski says this is pretty close to real life with time constraints, a lack of money and available people but he feels it prepares the students for the real world.
Having something fun for the kids to engage in, kinda find their passion in the world but they don't even know how hard, how much they are learning because they are having so much fun, they realize the second thing that is going on in a way," he says.
Koscielski adds even though the students are competing against each other on the field, off the field, they help each other.
Eight local teams qualified for the Provincial Championship and the three local teams are now headed to the World Championship in Detroit.