From the 11th - 19th of August schools celebrated National Science Week with the 2018 theme of 'Game Changers and Change Makers'.

We caught up with the St Francis Xavier students who flew to Montreal, Canada to compete at RoboCup International. The school's Semi-Autonomous Rescue Team won the Open Source and Innovation Award in the Rapidly Manufactured Rescue League.

After success at the Australian National RoboCup Junior Competition, the SFX 'Soccer Team' of artificially intelligent light-weight soccer robots qualified for RoboCup International. The team started off strong, winning their first game in Montreal. 

Soccer Team representative Marc Cooke-Russell said that competing at RoboCup has allowed him to apply his computer science skills to a real world situation.

"Having this opportunity to do robotics has been really good to see what I might want to do in my career."