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WCCS LEGO ROBOTICS TEAMS-WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!!!

MS Robotics wraps up a successful season!


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Thanks to the generosity of numerous community sponsors, the Middle School Robotics Club has wrapped up it second and successful competition season.

Three teams, Yield!, The CrissCrossers and Transporters worked hard since September putting in a regular five hours a week with up to 13 hours a week in preparation for the competition season. The teams designed and built three robots to complete a number of tasks designed by the First Lego League tournament. Students also developed a presentation solving real-world issues surrounding this year’s theme of transportation. All three groups worked on challenges in their own school district.

The groups made outstanding this progress with this year’s lowest qualifying score beating last year’s high score by an incredible 40 points. The Transporters earned the Innovative Design Award and the Robot Performance Award for earning the most points at the robot competition table, qualifying them to advance to the University of Rochester Semifinals, where 34 teams were vying for one available slot to the World tournament. This year’s team earned 8th place in the robot competition out of those 34 teams, improving upon their placing from the year before. Their presentation was a merged version of all three teams and they were thankful for the assistance they received from the Yield! and CrissCrossers members. Although there are three separate teams, all three groups worked together throughout the year.

The Wayland-Cohocton community has been generous in supporting this program which requires a great deal of technology and equipment. Please look for a list in the near future of the 2009-2010 community sponsors. Remember to patronize local businesses as they are certainly the cornerstone for so many organizations in our communities.
All three teams would also like to thank Paul Holubek who coaches tirelessly and works extensively with the programmers and builders to create some of the best ‘bots around. Likewise, the group’s appreciation goes out to John Kerr who provides tremendous support to the presenters and researchers in this complicated process.
Look for these kids out in the community this winter and spring as they share their robots and creations.