Sharon Tiger Techs Robotics Team Wins Award at West Coast Event
A Sharon Tiger Techs Robotics Team recently competed at the Western Edge Invitational in Long Beach, California. The team competed in the FIRST LEGO League Division against 83 other teams from around the world.
While at the competition, the team received the Innovation Project Finalist Award. The Innovation Project Award recognizes a team that utilizes diverse resources for their Innovation Project to help them gain a comprehensive understanding of their problem; has a creative, well-researched solution; and effectively communicates their findings to judges and the community. This award recognized the Sharon team for their project, Scuba PAL. Scuba Pal is a scuba tank transmitter that auditorily reads oxygen levels to the user/diver. The teams improved their prototype over the past 8 months and met with several experts including a computer science teacher, a mechanical engineer, scuba divers, scuba store owner, the Hermitage Fire Department, among many others. The team secured a provisional patent for their device with the help of Robert Sovesky, from K and L Gates, Pittsburgh.
In addition to their innovation project, the teams competed with their robot on a robot table game and competed in an alliance robot competition. The team designed, built, and programmed a LEGO Spike Prime Robot to complete tasks autonomously on a themed playing field. The team competed in three matches that were each 2.5 minutes long. The team came in 11th out of 83 teams with their robot performance.
The robotics team is part of the FIRST LEGO League organization. FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.” The Sharon Tiger Techs includes students from 4th to 9th grades in the Sharon City School District. They are under the leadership of Dave Tomko and Kelly Roys. The team is funded by sponsors and the Sharon City School District. For more information, please visit the website at www.tigertechsrobotics.com .
Sharon Tiger Techs Robotics Teams 