A KEIGHLEY school's science club made it through to the final stages of a national Lego robot competition.

The Oakbank team reached the last eight of the contest, at Loughborough University.

It eventually lost to the overall winners, who go forward to the world championships in America.

Oakbank students qualified for the final after beating 15 other teams from across the region in a heat at Bradford University.

The national contest saw them up against more than 30 other regional victors.

"All the staff who attended commented on how well our students competed against some very experienced teams," said science club mentor Cheryl Moore, a senior technician.

"They worked so hard to prepare for the championships and performed brilliantly. They are a credit to their parents, school and Keighley."

The Oakbank team built and programmed a robot to complete various tasks, such as lifting objects.

The device could even differentiate between colours and had a sensor to prevent collisions.

And the club designed a phone app to help students learn and revise different subjects, through the use of quizzes and videos.

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Points were awarded for those and for teamwork.