Sharon High School Robotics team wins award at State Championship event
SHARON, Pa. - The Sharon High School robotics team won multiple awards at a State Championship event over the weekend.
The 2024 FIRST Tech Challenge Pennsylvania State Championship was held March 16 and 17 at Saucon Valley High School in Hellertown, PA. During the event, Sharon High School received the First Place Promote Award and the Second Place Motivate Award.
Both of these awards are judged awards.
The Promote Award is given to the team that is most successful in creating a compelling message for the public designed to change our culture and celebrate STEM and the Motivate Award is given to the team that makes a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school and community.
Since August, the team has been designing and building a robot that completes tasks on a playing field that is 12x12 feet. The robot must run independently for 30 seconds and then it is driver-controlled for two minutes.
The objectives for the robot included moving pixels or plastic discs onto locations on the field, to hang the robot on a bar and to deliver a drone / paper airplane across the field.
Sharon High School isn't the only robotics team in Sharon to receive an honor though.
The Sharon Tiger Techs Robotics Teams (middle school level) also competed at the Pennsylvania FIRST LEGO League Championship at Penn State Behrend on February 10.
The team received one of the highest honors possible with Team Orange receiving the Second Place Champions Award and Team Black receiving the First Place Robot Design Award.
Team Orange will advance to the FIRST World Championship in Houston Texas, which takes place April 17 through 20. Meanwhile, Team Black will advance to the North American Robotics Invitational held outside of New York City May 17 through 20.
Both teams will compete against the highest performing robotics teams from all over the world.
The teams designed, built and programmed LEGO EV3 Mindstorm robots to compete on a thematic playing field and were challenged to program a robot to independently complete tasks for a two-and-a-half-minute time period.
These tasks included delivering artwork to the field, lifting objects and configuring levels on a sound mixer.
