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A pair of primary school girls from Hertfordshire will represent the UK in the World Robotics Championships finals next month – if they meet their crowdfunding target. Emily Duffy, nine, and Beth Thomas, eight, both from Holy Family School in Welwyn Garden City hope their scratch-built robot Roy will help them scoop the …

  1. wolfetone Silver badge

    Finally a good news story! Good luck to them both.

  2. Hollerithevo

    Come on Commentards!

    Let's support our own.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Just Donated £20

    Who's next?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Just Donated £20

      Nope.

      I'm ideologically opposed to crowed funding. It's the neoliberal solution to a gutted society, and profits sketchy Californian corporations.

    2. Philip Stott

      Re: Just Donated £20

      Same here. Dig deep folks - our country's future depends on getting kids hooked on STEM early.

  4. Nezumi

    Donated a tenner

    I'm skint (already)

    1. Pen-y-gors

      Re: Donated a tenner

      ditto (but not the skint bit, thankfully)

  5. GlenP Silver badge

    Donated

    I promised a donation to charity in lieu of payment for a Sinclair ZX81 so this seems appropriate!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Would love to donate

    But I dont have Fakebook and dont want to "create an account"

    Why cant I just paypal it?

    1. wolfetone Silver badge

      Re: Would love to donate

      It wouldn't be beyond you to Google the school address and send them a cheque or £20 note.

    2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

      Re: Would love to donate

      Use the link to JustGiving

      No need for Facebork.

    3. Tom Paine

      Re: Would love to donate

      You CAN just Paypal it. Read the page again

    4. Philip Stott

      Re: Would love to donate

      You can. Just enter your spam email account, then checkout with PayPal. Worked for me.

  7. Pen-y-gors

    Worrying thought

    Will they be able to get visas? They might be Isiamisisist trrrsts from Yemenistan who are only *pretending* to be British primary school girls. Cunning devil, Johnny Foreigner.

    1. Tom 7

      Re: Worrying thought

      and any technology will be taken from them at the airport!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Worrying thought

        Only if their flight goes through the Middle East.

        Maybe we should send them Make America Great Again baseball caps. That will probably grease the skids through customs.

      2. chivo243 Silver badge

        Re: Worrying thought

        @Tom 7

        Another question would be are these young devs violating the Wassenaar Accord?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Worrying thought

      That's a good point actually. I was going to donate with a comment about world domination, but I guess I'd better not in case they get refused entry.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Worrying thought

        @Mycho

        A good point. Muslim Regenistas should feel free to donate, but please don't post any motivational notes about how your jihad involves seeing this robot crush the opposition in America.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Worrying thought

          @Marketing Hack

          One does not have to be a Muslim to think that schoolgirls taking over the world with a giant robot is more likely to improve the world than to worsen it.

          I mean look at who's running the place today.

  8. stungebag

    Very worthwhile for all concerned

    Until recently I worked for a North London secondary that has twice sent all-girls teams to the world championships. They got plenty of publicity, including a couple of visits to Woman's hour. Participating in this helps with so many skills other than the purely technical, and it's great to see girls getting involved.

    1. Adam 52 Silver badge

      Re: Very worthwhile for all concerned

      Did you deliberately pick all-girl teams to get publicity or did it just happen that those who wanted to go were girls?

      1. stungebag

        Re: Very worthwhile for all concerned

        I wasn't involved in the picking, but we had more than one team and I think the girls self-selected.

  9. Antron Argaiv Silver badge
    Happy

    20 quid from the US

    Making dreams come true is cheap.

    Go, girls! Best of luck.

    ...up to 3k now...

  10. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Terminator

    I'm ok with bots and schoolgirls!

    Just make sure they don't built those tentacled ones.

  11. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    Coat

    "Henrietta Barnet School, "

    Now if only it was the "Henrietta Carrot School"

    I know.

    1. Alister
      Coat

      Re: "Henrietta Barnet School, "

      If Henrietta Barnet would he be spitting hairs?

      Curious minds want to know, and you don't get a more curious mind than mine...

      :)

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