INEVENTS
GATEWAY SCHOOLS
PARTICIPATE IN
WESTERN PA ROBOTICS
CHAMPIONSHIP
Gateway students recently competed
with hundreds of middle and high school
students and their engineered robots in
the Western PA Robotics Championship.
Students had the opportunity to showcase
their robot’s skills on an international
stage after spending months building and
fine-tuning their robots. They qualified to
compete in the Robotics Championship
either by earning a spot as one of the top
six teams in a qualification tournament, or
by winning a Design or Excellence Award,
presented to teams who demonstrate
excellence in robot design through a
rigorous documentation process.
The robots competed in a ringmaster
challenge, which required two robots to
work together to toss rings onto tripod posts
of various heights. There were two additional
challenges—one that required the robot to
work autonomously to toss the rings onto
the post and another that requires the robot
to work under driver control.
The winning teams competed in the
worldwide competition in Louisville,
Kentucky, at the end of April.
The Robotics Championship event
was organized by Keystone Oaks High
School Technology Education Teacher
Jeff Oestreich, the Robotics Education &
Competition Foundation, and Vex Robotics.
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