Fireball Family Event
Mark your calendars for our first Fireball Family event at FIRST Robotics!
Bring the kids in your life to experience robotics up close. Start the morning with an interactive STEM activity for kids ages 5-10 by our Community Outreach team. Following the activity, grab a to-go lunch and head over to the FIRST Robotics matches to watch the best high school robotics teams in Ontario going head-to-head in fast-paced challenges.
Expect learning opportunities, excitement, community fun and lots of cheering for your favourite team.
Saturday, March 29 at The Hub/David Braley Athletic Centre at McMaster University
- 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
- STEM activity featuring ozobots with Mac Eng Community Outreach. Kids will be given a large piece of paper to design a city for the ozobot to travel through. During the design period, students will think critically about how technology can be used to develop sustainable cities.
- 11 a.m.
- Head on over to the FIRST Robotics opening ceremony
- 11:30 a.m. – onwards
- FIRST Robotics matches (stay for as long as you like!) The action continues on Sunday, March 30 if you’d like to return to watch more of the competition.
Make sure to register by Monday, March 17!
Registration below
About FIRST Robotics
McMaster University will be hosting a FIRST Robotics Canada Ontario District Competition, one of Canada’s premier science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions for high school-aged students, from March 28 to March 30, 2025.
Teams will compete using their STEM and collaboration skills to explore life beneath the surface of the ocean. In this REEFSCAPE challenge, teams will uncover the potential in each of us to strengthen our community and innovate for a better world with healthy oceans.
The district competition is one of several in a series of successive events FIRST Robotics runs in Ontario. Teams must compete in at least two district events where they accumulate points, working toward competing at the Provincial Championship and possibly representing Ontario in a FIRST World Championship Event in Houston, Texas.