SHP Robotics Team Charges Into Regional Tournaments

Gators amass a 6-3-1 record and rank 18th overall.

In mid-March, SHP
's FIRST Robotics Team 2144 headed to Northern Arizona University for the initial regional tournament in a series of three, which challenges students to design, build, program, and test an original robot in a head-to-head, scored match against other opponents.
 
Themed around a knight's quest, the FIRST STRONGHOLD games allied robots in groups of three, with a challenging goal to "breach their opponents' fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower."
 
Competing against more than 50 schools around the country, SHP's nine-member team amassed a respectable 6-3-1 game record, ranked 18 overall among competitors.
 
"We fought valiantly through several technical challenges to finish strong, but we were up against schools with award-winning STEM programs and several teams with over 50 active members who had built and tested three or four robots," said Clint Johns, team mentor and head of SHP's robotics lab. "Given that we were the David to their Goliath teams, we did remarkably well!"
 
Next up for the Gators are FIRST regional tournaments at University of California, Davis on March 25-26, and at the Las Vegas Convention Center on April 1-2.
 
The FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) Robotics Competition games are held annually, with high school teams participating around the globe. Operating under strict rules and with limited resources, students are given just six weeks to create a robot expected to perform a given series of tasks. Each team is sent a box of parts which must be used in the build out; embellishments and additional functionality are then—for the most part—left up to the designers.  
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