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Selected members of the Robotics team will travel to Houston April 17-22 to compete in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Technology Championship. The competition is the culminating event of the youth robotics season and will include 600 teams, according to FIRST Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The team advanced to the championship round after placing in the 2024 FIRST Robotics Competition in Hudson Valley, New York, in March.<\/p>\n

Team member Konstantinos Dalglish (\u201926) said the team was proud to be participating in the FIRST World Championship for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really exciting because we got to go to World Championships last year and that was an amazing experience,\u201d Dalglish said. \u201cWe were all looking forward to being able to go to it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robotics Mentor Karon Bonthrone said, following the regional competition, the team has worked after school, over weekends and through Spring Break to restructure and test their robots.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the competition and watching more videos online, we were able to see ways to improve the robot,\u201d Bonthrone said. \u201cWe also decided that the presentation of our outreach work needed some revising, and a separate group also worked on that piece as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team member Clay Olson (\u201924) said a significant stage of preparation for the competition was recreating the environment the robots would be competing in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took a bunch of time to set up a field in the gym, similar to what we would see at Worlds,\u201d Olson said. \u201cThere\u2019s a bunch of testing involved where the robot is driving itself and also testing out a remote control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olson said of the hundreds of teams participating in the FIRST World Championship, all are highly competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s essentially 600 of the best teams of the world, and we\u2019ll be competing against 74,\u201d Olson said. \u201cWe\u2019re super excited, but also we\u2019re managing our expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonthrone said it is challenging to predict the team\u2019s performance at the competition due to the innate unpredictability of the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s always hard to know, robots can be temperamental at the best of times,\u201d Bonthrone said. \u201cOne match it\u2019s working perfectly, the next match it just decides not to behave. We have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the difficulty of the competition, Dalglish said the experience will be worthwhile regardless of the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can definitely do much better than we did last year, and if we\u2019re improving that\u2019s always a good thing,\u201d Dalglish said. \u201cWe can continue pushing our limits and being better than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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