Attended by representatives of the main partners, which include the J. Armand Bombardier Foundation, the city of Montreal, Montreal Hooked on School, CAE, Hydro-Québec, local school boards, Vigilant Global, Bombardier and BMO Financial Group, the closing ceremony will award prizes to the top winners and honour the participants’ efforts by showing their robots in action. The closing ceremony will take place on Saturday, March 17, 2012, at 3:30 p.m.

Members of the media are welcome throughout the festival, where they can meet the young participants and the business, university, government and educational partners.

In collaboration with Youth Fusion, FIRST Robotics Québec is rallying companies, universities and the education community in Quebec to enable young people to acquire hands-on experience in science and technology and to inspire them to become the creators and innovators of tomorrow’s Quebec.

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Contact:

Vigilant Global
Marilena Varano, 514 825-1377
Director of Communications, and member of the organizing committee
Email Contact
www.festivalderobotique.ca