The team representing Jamaica at the upcoming Robotics Olympics in Athens, Greece, has been selected! Students from six schools—American International School of Kingston, Campion College, Hillel Academy, Immaculate Conception High School, Kingston College, and Wolmer’s Boys’ School—make up the 2024 delegation.
The group includes five students, two coaches, and two additional team members, bringing the total to nine. However, the Jamaica Union of Alumni Associations (UJAA), led by President Donavan Wilson, still needs to raise around US$20,000 to cover the team’s expenses.
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“For the past seven years, UJAA and its 64 member associations have supported Team Jamaica Robotics,” Wilson explained. “As costs have risen with the competition moving globally, even with some travel subsidies from FIRST, we still need to raise US$20,000 to ensure our students can participate and showcase their talents internationally.”
The students are busy preparing for the FIRST Global Challenge 2024, also known as the Robotics Olympics, which takes place from September 26 to 29. This will be the eighth year of the event, and the theme is “Feeding the Future,” bringing together students from over 190 countries.
Wilson also highlighted UJAA’s commitment to this initiative since its start in 2017. “Each year, our students have shown that Jamaica is small but mighty, consistently winning one of the 19 awards of excellence given out annually,” he added. With their robot kit in hand, the team is hard at work in Kingston, preparing for this exciting global competition.
