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Schenectady High School
December 22 2009
SHS Robotic
Club off and running
Both teams win awards in contest
Members of the Patriot Red team that tied for 2nd in
the high school division.
Members of the Patriot Blue Team show off their
robot. The team took home the Judges Award
trophy. |
The Schenectady
High School Robotics Club is off to a busy start this year.
On Saturday, December 12, the club traveled to RPI in Troy to
participate in the annual high school and collegiate robotics
contest.
The challenge
this year was to design and build robots that were capable of
collecting crushed stone and/or shelled corn and then deliver it
into a scoring basin. The challenge was even more
complicated as teams had to overcome a series of obstacles in
order to move along the course.
Schenectady
High School entered two teams in the contest, the Patriot Red
and the Patriot Blue. The Red team, which tied for
second place, was one of only two high school levels teams whose
robot was able to collect corn.
The Blue Team
was awarded the Judges Award for the best overall design and
conceptualization of a solution. The team's robot was
built based on the concept of a conveyor belt that moved in one
direction to collect stone and corn and in the reverse direction
to unload. |
