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Following a more competitive season a Powell High School robotics team is going to the Worlds robotic tournament in Houston, Texas this April.
Powell High School’s Team 3189, also known as …
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Following a more competitive season a Powell High School robotics team is going to the Worlds robotic tournament in Houston, Texas this April.
Powell High School’s Team 3189, also known as Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, came away from state on Feb. 19 in Casper in first place — they also left with the Inspire award. The Inspire award is given to teams with the best performance across the board. Teams are judged based on the aesthetics, performance design, programming and community outreach.
“It was really good. Actually, it was nice the Wyoming competition was a lot better than in the past,” robotics coach Joel Hayano said. “So there were quite a few teams down there that could score, which hasn’t always happened in the past. The teams around us are getting a lot better, it pushes us to have to be better.”
Sophomore Alan Crawford of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly said the state performance wasn’t difficult but he attributes this to lots of testing and designing throughout the year in preparation for the state competition.
Last year Powell was able to compete for more chances to attend Worlds by competing in the Idaho state competition. But this year the competition was closed to out of state teams. Powell did however attend Montana state but did not earn another ticket to Worlds.
For Powell’s other teams it’s time to work on refining their bots for next year’s growing competition.
“I’m done because I’m a senior, but the rest of the team can start working for next year if they want, there’s stuff to be improved,” said senior Daniel Merritt of 3188, also known as Squiggle Splat Bang. “They can start on our drive train and other things that aren’t going to change from this year to next year.”
In the meantime final fundraising efforts are underway with the help of the annual Duck Derby next Tuesday. To raise the remaining funds, the robotics team will be turning to people in the community for sponsorships as they did last year. The travel to Houston will cost about $16,000 and the team will be responsible for raising roughly $10,000.
