Robotics team fares well at regionals in Boston
Berlin will attend the Nationals in Atlanta next week.
On March 6 and 7 the Berlin High School and Mc Gee Middle School robotics team, aka Berlin FIRST Robotics, competed in the Boston Regional of the FIRST 2009 Challenge, Lunacy. This year the team went into the competition season with high hopes and much enthusiasm. With good reason, the team had a great season in 2008 and wanted to build on their success.
Robotics team fares well at regionals in Boston
Berlin will attend the Nationals in Atlanta next week.
On March 6 and 7 the Berlin High School and Mc Gee Middle School robotics team, aka Berlin FIRST Robotics, competed in the Boston Regional of the FIRST 2009 Challenge, Lunacy. This year the team went into the competition season with high hopes and much enthusiasm. With good reason, the team had a great season in 2008 and wanted to build on their success.
Berlin brought a large contingent of team members and supporters to the Agganis Center at Boston University. The team was one of 53 which competed in what has become a very competitive Regional. The team did not disappoint its supporters. Not only did they exceed last year’s success, they came within two wins of winning the entire event.
Berlin FIRST was seeded fourth after the qualifying rounds, finishing with a record of 6-1 and was teamed with the number one alliance for the elimination matches Saturday afternoon.
The team breezed through the quarterfinal and semifinals, going 4-0. In the championship round the team was matched against WPI and Mass Academy School, Blackstone Valley Technical School and Brookfield High School from Connecticut. Berlin was allied with Algonquin Regional High School and Tewksbury Memorial High School both from Massachusetts. Both final matches were exciting, but in the end, Berlin and its alliance lost. Berlin FIRST had never made it past the quarter final round before, surely a good sign of things to come in Atlanta.
The drive team that led Berlin to this great finish was comprised of Carson Collier, Sean Orzolek, Will Cavedon and Adam Salwocki. The team is organized under the supervision of Paul Griswold, technology teacher at Mc Gee Middle School and Pam Dennis, Family and Consumer Science teacher at Berlin High School.
The team will travel to the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, GA on April 15. They will compete against more than 300 teams from all over the world. This is a great experience for the students, as they will meet students from Brazil, Israel, Mexico and Canada, as well as teams from all over the United States.