Crescent set to defend robotics title
[attach]7632[/attach]In most high schools it’s the football team seen in the hallways sporting their jerseys, but at Crescent School it’s the robotics team.
Crescent School’s team of 44 students and four staff mentors, known as Team 610 – The Coyotes, took the first step in defending their title as world champions of the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology robotics competition Feb. 28 to March 2 by beating out 27 teams to win a regional tournament held at Crescent School.
Crescent School, already having qualified for this year’s world championships April 23–26 in St. Louis, won alongside teams from J. Clark Richardson in Ajax and Runnymede Collegiate in Toronto. All three are headed to Missouri to compete against 400 robotics teams from around the world.
Tasks are set up so each team must work with two others’ robots in the competitions.
In this year’s challenge, called Aerial Assist, a team’s robot must be able to move via WiFi remote, catch and pass a ball with other robots and shoot the ball through an opening.
If Crescent School comes home from St. Louis as world champions, it will be only the third team to do so in the history of the competition, which was first held in 1992.
