Sacred Heart School girls Olivia Hoey, Jasmine Matsushita, Emily Thunder and Alice Duffy with Rachel Ebenezer in front show their sense of fun as they pose for our photographer as they get set to represent Ireland and their school as the first ever all female

Sacred Heart School team heads to Dallas for World Robotics Championships

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The Sacred Heart School's all-girls Robotics teams is heading to Texas to take part in the World VEX IQ Championships, which gets underway on Monday.

The Tullamore team, The Steminists, became the first ever all-female team to win the VEX IQ All-Ireland Robotics Competition, and are travelling to Dallas, Texas.

The team includes five students aged between 12 and 14, including students Emily Thunder, Jasmine Matsushita, Rachel Ebenezer, Alice Duffy, and Olivia Hoey, supported by teachers Ms Sindy Meleady and Ms Aisling Bourke.

The VEX Robotics programme is a series of competitions and educational resources targeted at encouraging young students to learn Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) concepts, with different levels for various age groups including VEX IQ for younger students and VEX V5 for older minds.

Ms Sindy Meleady, Alice Duffy, Rachel Ebenezer, Jasmine Matsushita, Emily Thunder, Olivia Hoey and Ms Aisling Bourke. Ger Rogers Photo Photo by Ger Rogers
Teachers Aisling Bourke and Sindy Meleady who will accompany Olivia Hoey, Alice Duffy, Jasmine Matsushita, Emily Thunder and Rachel Ebenezer to the VEX IQ Robotics World Championship competition. Photo: Ger Rogers Photo Photo by Ger Rogers
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