MAVA Colleagues,
We are please to share this Good News from Bay Path as the Robotics Team was recently awarded several medals during the RoboGames 2023 in Pleasanton, California. We have attached the full article in pdf format. Regrettably, I was unable to blend the photos into the text.
“The talent, skill, and creativity that I have witnessed from these robotics students throughout the school year have been incredible,” said Director of Career and Technical Education Tripp Pockevicius. “I want to congratulate each of them for their performances at the RoboGames.”
MAVA extends its congratulations to the Robotics Team for achieving medals in a national competition!!
David
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Bay Path Robotics Team Awarded During 2023 RoboGames Competition
May 2023 Madelyn Hedges Client News, School News
CHARLTON — Superintendent-Director Kyle Brenner and Director of Career and Technical Education James Tripp Pockevicius are pleased to announce that the Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School Robotics Team was recently awarded several medals during the RoboGames 2023 in Pleasanton, California.
RoboGames, held April 6-9, is the world’s largest robotics competition. As part of the competition, robotics teams consisting of industry professionals compete in more than 50 events including combat bots, fire-fighter bots, LEGO bots, hockey bots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots and androids that compete in kung fu. Historically, Bay Path has been the only high school to compete in this competition.
12 Bay Path students participated this year. They were accompanied by robotics advisors Tate Ostiguy and Christine Johnson, along with longtime program supporter and retired Bay Path teacher Michael Savage.
The Bay Path Robotics Team is a volunteer team that practices after school. The teams consist of students from advanced manufacturing, electronics, and programming and web development departments, along with various other technical programs at Bay Path.
“It was a great honor to have our students compete at this year’s RoboGames,” said Superintendent-Director Kyle Brenner. “These students have worked extremely hard all year, constructing these robots for their moment to shine at the competition and I could not be more proud.”
Bay Path students Aaron Stieglitz and Braydon Hickey competed in the RoboGames Robo-Magellan Competition, which emphasizes autonomous navigation in an outdoor environment. To prepare for this competition, students worked on wiring a wheel-based robot platform with a GPS sensor, magnetometer/compass, and a camera for vision processing. During the competition, the robot will autonomously calculate its GPS location, determine the next GPS waypoint location and calculate a heading. Using the calculated heading, the robot will use the magnetometer/compass to turn to the heading and navigate until it reaches its destination.
Bay Path student Sean Derenas was awarded bronze following his robot’s performance in the RoboGames Line-Following Competition, in which the objective is for an autonomous robot to follow a black line on a white background, without losing the line and navigating several 90-degree turns. The robot to complete the course in the shortest time, while accurately tracking the course line from start to finish, wins.
Students Joe Budney and Korey Wood won bronze for their robot’s performance in the RoboGames Firefighting Competition, in which the challenge is to build an autonomous computer-controlled robot that can find its way through an arena that represents a model house, find a lit candle and extinguish the fire in the shortest time period. This task simulates the real-world operation of an autonomous robot performing a fire protection function in a real house.
Students Tatyanna Johnny, Ryan Dawson and Kaelen Anderson won bronze following the RoboGames Bot Hockey Competition, which featured teams of remote-controlled robots competing to score goals using a puck similar to those used in street hockey.
Two Bay Path teams competed, starting with pen-and-paper concept designs, which were then converted to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) drawings and later manufactured by the students at school.
“The talent, skill, and creativity that I have witnessed from these robotics students throughout the school year have been incredible,” said Director of Career and Technical Education Tripp Pockevicius. “I want to congratulate each of them for their performances at the RoboGames.”
David J. Ferreira
MAVA Communications Coordinator
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