Norup Robotics Compete at Robofest 2022
Norup Robotics Compete at Robofest 2022
Students in Lydia DiVito’s Robotics class at Norup competed in the State 2022 Robofest competition sponsored by Lawrence Tech University. Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and Computer Science.
The state competition’s game focused on sea turtles. The scenario: A garbage barge has spilled trash into the turtle’s habitat and the researchers need to see if the turtles are injured and to clean up the trash.
Students had to build and program an autonomous robot that will find the turtles (blue LEGO blocks), bring some onboard the robot, deliver others to the researchers on the beach (green target) AND find the trash objects (red LEGO blocks) and deliver them back to the garbage barge (black target) while avoiding the pilings (water bottles) without human help in 2 minutes.
Students designed, constructed, and programmed the robots getting ready for the competition.
Congratulations to following teams on their work at the State Robofest competition:
The Wallee’s: Placed 2nd, qualifying for the World competition in May:
- Edgar Wardowski, Zach Brenzweig, Tommy Shelp and Finn Moore
Penguin Squadron:
- Owen Chudler & Julian Klose
Team J.A.S.:
- Jackson Reynolds, Alex Conti & Sage Krysiak
The Golden Turtles:
- Kate Meretsky, Abby Hirschhorn, Leela Hahabra, Claire Levingston
