Competition gets robotic

An annual robotics competition is about respect and engineering.

The Curtis Cyber Warriors are adept at remaining optimistic in the face of doom and gloom. In Long Island, New York, the team competed against local robotics teams. Unfortunately, they did not end up doing as well as they hoped.

“We may have lost, but everyone still had fun in the end. Our robot did what it was supposed to do, and nothing exploded!” Jamie Rogers remarked with a smile on her face, regarding the outcome of the competition.

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an event that consists of robots, which are designed and built by a team of students collaborating while following specific rules of the game.   The requirements for the robots change every year. The term to refer to the robotics teams’ respect for one another, regardless of whether they are collaborating with or competing against each other, is called gracious professionalism. The purpose of the robotics competition is to highlight real world use of engineering and science to solve problems. It is up to the teams to think of ideas that will help their robots emerging victorious.

This year’s game, Arial Assist, consisted of the various teams’ robots collaborating with one another in order to score points. There are high goals and low goals, with the former worth more points. The robots score by launching exercise balls into the high and/or low goals.

The team plans on bettering itself by keeping the work area clean. That way, the supplies needed to build the robots will be found in their respective spots, speeding up the pace when it comes to building the robot.

“We will organize better so when January rolls around, we’ll be ready,” said Michael Davis, coach of the Cyber Warriors, who would like to improve with the team.