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On Friday 19th October, teams from four Gateshead Primary schools took part in the grand final of a Lego Robotics Competition at Heworth Grange City Learning Centre. Under their team names “Rampaging Penguins” (Bill Quay), “Dunston Divas” (Dunston Hill), “Roman Bots” (Roman Road) and “The Geordies” (Glynwood), pupils designed programs to control robots through a series of challenging tasks. The competition had a soccer theme and robots had to weave in and out of defenders, beat the defence and score goals.

All teams performed well on the day. When scores were totalled up it was Roman Road school who emerged as winners. Dean, Lauren, Nathan and Caitlin picked up the top prize, a Logo Nxt Robotics kit while runners up were awarded Robosapiens Robots. All pupils received a gigabyte memory pen as a reward for their hard work.