Our First ReciLectura Club Activity 🌎📚

During our first ReciLectura Club activity, we shared the story Harry Saves The Ocean! by N. G. K. and Sylva Fae with Year 2 pupils. After the reading, students discussed the story and answered questions about looking after the environment.

Students carried out a creative poster activity, in which the children shared ideas on how to protect our planet.

As a team, we organised the activity by sharing responsibilities among the club members, including reading the story, preparing questions, leading the activity, and organising the materials.

It was an engaging experience that encouraged students in their love of reading and reminded them that small actions can make a big difference in protecting our planet. 

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Banned Books Week: Question, Analyse and Debate

From 5 to 9 October, the LRC celebrated Banned Books Week with students in Years 9–12, as part of the American Library Association (ALA) initiative to promote the freedom to read and encourage reflection on book censorship.

Throughout the week, our students took part in a range of activities that encouraged them to question, analyse, express their opinions, and listen to different perspectives on book censorship.

The activities included:

Sold: analysing a request to remove a book and expressing different arguments. 

True or False: discovering the real reasons why different books have been challenged or censored.

The Censorship Line: taking a position on different statements and defending their ideas through dialogue. 

Find the Impostor: exploring the historical events that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale and identifying which ones took place after the novel was published.

These activities helped students understand that the same book can generate very different opinions. Some students even recognised favourite books during the activities, from their Primary school days. 

Rather than looking for right or wrong answers, the experience aimed to promote critical thinking, respect for different perspectives, and reflection on the freedom to read.

Reading also means learning to think, question and listen to other voices.

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Celebrating Innovation and Tradition: ABC Teams Shine at WRO 2026

A huge congratulations to the ABC delegation for their outstanding performance at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) on 29th of August! Competing across both the RoboMission and Future Innovators categories, 7 dedicated teams represented our community with extraordinary skill, drive, and creativity.

The Future Innovator presentations were exceptionally thoughtful, taking on the ambitious challenge of this year’s theme: Robots Meet Culture. Our young engineers tackled real-world challenges across the theme’s three core focus areas:

• Area 1: Protecting, Preserving & Sharing Cultural Heritage
  
  
• Area 2: Co-Creation: Humans, Robots & AI
  
  
• Area 3: Experiencing Art and History with Robots
  
  

We are thrilled to recognize the brilliant minds behind these projects and celebrate their official placements and participation:

Award-Winning Teams:

• Heritage Guardian – 2nd Place (Future Innovators Junior)
  
  
  • Team Members: José Andrés Sandoval, René Rafael Denis Ibarra, Jacobo Jorge Simon Gutiérrez
    
    
• AJM Innovators – 3rd Place (Future Innovators Junior)
  
  
  • Team Members: Alfonso Quiñonez, Juan Fernando Márquez, Ricardo Andrés Morán
    
    
• MPC – 3rd Place (Robomission Senior)
  
  
  • Team Members: Carlos Salvador Saca Moschini, Pietro Reis Couto, Mateo Reis Couto
    
    
• The Engineering Bros – 3rd Place (Future Innovators Senior)
  
  
  • Team Members: Kahlil Badi Martin, Gerardo Méndez
    
    

Outstanding Competitors:

• MGM
  
  
  • Team Members: Matteo Francesconi Montes, Gabriel Hurst, Mateo Geraldo Cruz Guzmán
    
    
• Los Inges
  
  
  • Team Members: Moisés Yakob Mejía Serrano, Fernando Velasco, Nicolas Gutierrez
    
    
• Salvatech
  
  
  • Team Members: Nicolás Urías, Juan Pablo Catani
    
    

During all the months of preparation as well as on competition day, the character of our students shone bright. Navigating high-pressure judging rounds and unpredictable robot runs required immense tenacity and resilience. When hardware needed last-minute adjustments or code required live troubleshooting, our young engineers met every challenge head-on.

Equally commendable was their commitment to competitive ethics and fair play. Beyond scores and awards, every participant proved to be an exemplary team player—supporting one another through every hurdle, communicating clearly, and celebrating each other's success as a united delegation.

We are immensely proud of what all 7 teams accomplished on the 29th of August. You have shown how robotics can beautifully bridge technology with human expression and cultural heritage—keep pushing boundaries and inspiring us all!

For more on the event and preparation for the event, check out our WRO  and ABC Robotics photo albums on Flickr.