Kingston robotics team heads to U.S. competition for third straight year

A 115-pound robot from Kingston named Alex is headed to Texas to challenge other robots in the 2025 FIRST Robotics Competition Championship. This follows the. robot’s victory in two categories at a provincial tournament held April 5 in Mississauga. But Alex didn’t do it alone. The robot had plenty of help from a team of 28 students from 13 schools across the greater Kingston area, combined two local teams: DAVE and The Biggest Birds, both under the banner of the mentoring project ca