Michelle Bondy

Members of Catholic Central High School’s Electric Comets robotics team compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition at the St. Denis Centre on Friday, March 29.Members of Catholic Central High School’s Electric Comets robotics team compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition at the St. Denis Centre on Friday, March 29.

Robotics rooters set fieldhouse rocking

The St. Denis Centre was rocking into the weekend as hundreds of high school students descended on campus for the FIRST Robotics district competition.

Grade 11 students participating in the University of Windsor's Science Academy examine a jar containing the invasive spiny water fleas during a tour of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research on Wednesday, July 11, 2018.Grade 11 students participating in the University of Windsor's Science Academy examine a jar containing the invasive spiny water fleas during a tour of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research on Wednesday, July 11, 2018.

Past participants now mentors at UWindsor's Science Academy

Carefully tucked away in Layale Bazzi’s academic portfolio sits a certificate she received in Grade 11.

This certificate, while not her most notable accomplishment, represents a moment that forever influenced her academic career.

“When I first saw the University of Windsor’s department of physics in all its glory and met some of the students in the physics club at the time, it was like a whole new world opened up to me,” Bazzi said on Tuesday.