Oxford Robotics Challenge

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Woodstock to Host Robotics Challenge Today

Students from Oxford, Norfolk, St. Thomas-Elgin, and London-Middlesex will be taking part.

WOODSTOCK - Local students will go head to head today in the Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge.

Over 75 students plus their coaches will pack Goff Gym from 2:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m.

They have all been tasked with building their own autonomous farm robot, similar to what you would see in some fields today. Each team has received a Lego Spike Prime Kit to get the job done and they also have to submit a report and a video outlining what they have learned throughout the process.

By Marcie Culbert
Published November 27, 2025

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Local students had to use a Lego Spike Prime Kit to build a part-supplying robot.

WOODSTOCK - The 17th annual Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge is back in Woodstock.

Today, high school students will come to Goff Gymnasium at Reeves Community Complex to show a panel of judges a robot they have been working on for the past couple of months. The challenge this year was for the teams to build a part-supplying robot and complete the task of simulating the delivery of a part across an industrial facility.

By Kyle Freel
Published November 28, 2024

London Free Press

16 local high schools, one big robotics competition

Teams from 16 area high schools competed Thursday in the Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge in Woodstock. Each team was displaying devices they built from Lego Technic kits that sorted balls by colour and distributed them into bins. Teams received extra points if the balls were thrown through a small window.

(Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
Published Dec 01, 2023

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Robotics Challenge Returns to Community Complex

WOODSTOCK - More than 75 students from 16 different high schools will be facing off in the 16th annual Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge at Goff Hall in Woodstock.

By Marcie Culbert
Thursday, 30 November 2023

Woodstock Sentinel Review

Oxford robotics challenge focuses on experimentation and problem solving

Some of the brightest science and technology students from across Southwestern Ontario spent Tuesday afternoon in Woodstock seeing if the robots they built were up to snuff.

By Sentinel-Review Staff

Wednesday November 15, 2022

Woodstock Sentinel Review

The future of tech: Students compete robots at annual challenge

The next generation of technology whizzes faced off against their peers at the annual Oxford Invitational Youth Robotics Challenge on Wednesday in Woodstock.

By Kathleen Saylors, Woodstock Sentinel-Review

Wednesday November 20, 2019