ROYAL School “roboteers” won the trophy for best science project at the Regional First Lego League competition at Portsmouth University.

In preparation, the ten-strong Beyond Scratch team of years five to eight students, Rising Roboteers, had to do a lot of building, programming, science research and core values challenges.

On the day, they gave a presentation on the design of their Rising Robo 3.0, a science presentation about exercise in space and a core values presentation, before playing the robot game, by having three tries at building a robot to fulfil the task - and scoring 22 in every attempt.

Andy Brixey, ICT teacher, said: “The pupils worked incredibly hard to prepare for the competition and they were a real credit to the school.

“Not only did they do an outstanding job of demonstrating the school’s seven Cs - curiosity, creativity, courage, cooperation, compassion, commitment and christianity through their work, commitment and encouragement of the other teams, but they also succeeded in winning the trophy for the best science project.”