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A TEAM OF SCHOOLBOYS from Dublin have won a European award for building a robot and app to remind people to take vital medicines at regular intervals throughout the day.
The boys from Jobstown in Tallaght took a top award at the First Lego League robotics tournament in Paderborn in Germany, beating 52 teams from 34 countries to win an award specifically recognising their team spirit.
The team of seven boys – aged between 11 and 16 – designed and built a Lego robot, which worked with a smartphone app which alerted elderly people that it was the appropriate time to take their daily medication.
The app, which works through voice recognition, also reminds users of their appointments and other daily tasks.
The boys clubbed together at the Citywise after-school robotics club in Jobstown, and went forward to the European title having won the Irish title in January.
“What really impressed the judges was the way the lads worked together, their continual good spirit and their good humour despite the pressure of competition,” said team-co-ordinator Christopher Smyth.
“They were a real team,” he added.
Team member 16-year-old Himanshu Singh, from Ard Mór, said the standard of robots at the competition had been very high – but that the team had learned a lot from the experience and hoped to use its new knowledge in next year’s contest.
The team was sponsored by software firm SAP Ireland, which employs 1,200 people across Ireland, and whose staff helped to train the team.
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Taken far too soon!
@Frank Mc Carthy: sadly missed by small number of relatives.
@Frank Mc Carthy: good enough for him frankie
Poor aul divil RIP
@Tired Jim: your next if you keep posting that drivel
@Phillip Smyth: me think he has passed away already.
Struck down in the prime of his life! RIP
@John K: you waited til he died to say that, knowing he would absolutely batter you at 111 years old if you said it then.
@Maximilian Kolbe: my reply where I jokingly claimed to beat this gentleman up when he was 110 was obviously deemed toxic and removed! Just to clarify for the staff at the Journal, I did not assault the former oldest man in the world.
@John K: you’re a dangerous man.
Some milestone. Rest in peace sir.
I’m just here for the comments & my God I’m not disappointed.
@Matt D: I’m waiting for the comment… sure he smoked 40 a day and drank whiskey, and it did no harm..
@Matt D: some very very sad people around not every person gets to that age
@Matt D: Very toxic
@Clare Power: 40 fags a day!? You’d better get your facts right: it was a hundred a day & didn’t knock a feather out of him. He had just finished re-roofing his house 2 days earlier & his great great great granddaughter said she had never seen him looking so alert and sprightly.
@Patrice Ahern: lol
Thoughts and prayers.
@Jack Hayes: Prayers. That’ll help.
I will live to that age if it kills me.
This constant back and forth accusations of people being multi account trolls is getting extremely tiresome and is ruining every comments section. Please stop – on both sides!
@Soundy Sound: I think it would be more accurate to say that one individual, a multi-account troll, is ruining every comments section, and has been doing so for a long time. Of course there are false accusations in the other direction, but I do think this person needs to be challenged.
@Soundy Sound: Especially as The Journal does nothing about the problem.
@Brendan O’Brien: deflection as usual brenny…..all to get more £€$ …. despicable what you’re doing to this valued site
@Brendan O’Brien: I’ll NEVER TAKE THE BAIT—- you won’t score €€€ from me!!!!!, but keep trying, lol
@Frank Mc Carthy: You can keep reporting the comments Multi ID troll but it’s not gonna save you.. times up Ken,Buster, Frank Kevvy … lol
@Soundy Sound: That’s all well and good Soundy sound.. but we literally have one guy assuming Multi IDs and often other usernames IDs to spam this comments section for over a year now. As he’s called out on it, he ramps up his account numbers and starts attacking genuine posters. He has a serious issue.. and you’re right he is ruining this comments section. I suggest you look at the proof.. as if it were needed.. and act accordingly..
@Brian: you ruin it Brenda you filthy slag
@Soundy Sound: There is no back n forth,it’s people pointing out the one gobdaw that is multi account spamming. The Journal has completely failed in its duties so direct your anger at them.
Fair play he seen it all
Rip what he must has seen and lived throughout his life, unlike the trools here
@The Gate Florist: yes indeed the mind boggles what tales he could tell and monumental events in history over a century.
Rip great age got too. Got to see so much change
As Joe (so to speak) Duffy would say, “A young man” and he might, just might, add “so to speak”, so to speak.
If that was in Ireland chances are he passed 20 years ago and the family still pulling the pension each week.
At what age do you start looking over your shoulder for Conor McCloud?
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