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RSS FeedsThis T.O. robotics team earned a trip to the U.S. Thanks to the TDSB´s travel ban, they can´t go
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17 january 2018 20:42:41

 
This T.O. robotics team earned a trip to the U.S. Thanks to the TDSB´s travel ban, they can´t go
(The Star Movies)
 


A local elementary school’s robotics team is hopeful the Toronto District School Board will reconsider its ban on travel to the U.S. for elementary school students as well as high school students, after the team earned an invitation to one of two international competitions south of the border.Colin King, the captain of Glen Ames Senior Public School’s robotics team The Walking Lead, said the team will be let down if they can’t move on with the competition.“It’s a bit disappointing because of all the hours we put in, about 200 hours plus, for us to not go to either Detroit or California,” he said.The Walking Lead earned second place out of 40 teams at the First Lego League’s eastern Ontario provincials this month with the Royal Flush — an automatic flusher they invented to help combat lead contamination of drinking water at schools. They were also just one of two teams invited to present their project in front of the entire crowd of 800 people who attended the competition.The team, a group of Grade 8 and one Grade 7 students, was inspired to tackle the issue after the Star found more than 640 schools and daycares across the country had failed to meet the provincial standard for lead in 2015 and 2016. Their second place finish earned them a spot at a competition in either Detroit or San Diego this spring.For this year’s team, however, a Toronto District School Board ban on travel to the U.S. means they might not get the chance to compete at the international level.The board put the travel ban in place for any new student trips to the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s proposal to ban item by citizens from one of a number of Muslim-majority countries.“That decision was made so that students would not be put in a situation of potentially being turned away at the border,” explained Ryan Bird, a spokesperson for the TDSB.The board is set to consider an exemption to the ban for secondary schoo ...


 
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