Heads to World Championship in St. Louis
On Saturday, February 16th, the 2012-2013 First Tech Challenge Ohio State Championship was held at iSpace (www.ispacescience.org) on the Scarlet Oaks campus.
Team 4530 Infinite Resistance composed of students from Loveland, Lakota West, and Mason schools placed first overall in the Ohio State Championship. Loveland Student Alex Bunk is on the winning team.
First Tech Challenge is a robotics competition developed by FIRST comprising over 1,600 teams from the US, Canada, Mexico and other countries worldwide. The Ohio Championship consisted of 24 teams that had previously been selected from regional qualifying events in Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton held last month consisting of over 60 teams.
The championship is the culmination of six months of effort by teams to design, program and test their robots to meet the criteria in this years "Ring It Up" challenge.
The team has been invited to compete at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in St. Louis beginning April 24th. In addition Team 4530 Infinite Resistance won the PTC Design Award. This judged award recognizes design elements of the robot that are both functional and aesthetic. All successful robots have innovative design aspects; however, the PTC Design Award is presented to teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution.
Team members:
- Loveland - Alex Bunk
- Lakota West - Eric Ambrus, Isabelle Tessier, Alexandre Tessier, Frederick Tessier, John Trygier and Ryan Fisher
- Mason - Nick Zhao
FIRST Robotics is catalyst for getting students interested and involved in science, technology, engineering and math. The program creates a challenging learning environment for these students to practice hands on involvement in designing and programming sophisticated machines to carry out tasks. The skills learned are directly applicable to real world devices they will be involved with designing, engineering and programming as technology professionals.
In addition to the technical challenge, teams work to create community outreach to promote science and engineering to other students. Team 4530, with its corporate sponsors of SentriLock, Christ Hospital, and Amerigroup participated in bringing robotics to inner city S.T.E.M. schools by donating Lego Mindstorms Kits and spending time teaching other students how to build and program as well as enabling students to go to iSpace camp through scholarships.
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