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A new nonprofit organization called the Milwaukee Robotics Coalition is launching on Feb. 25.

The group is dedicated to supporting science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) education initiatives.

The MRC Launch Party, which isfree and open to the public, will be held at the 42 Lounge at 326 E. Mason St. from 6:30 pm. to 9 p.m.

MRC is an all-volunteer organization that intends to raise money and provide resources for local school robotics teams. The group is also planning to eventually develop a robotics innovation facility and create a professional network of volunteers to get involved with STEAM initiatives.

The MRCs primary focus after its launch will be to get local schools involved in the FIRST Robotics Competition, which is an international league of high school robotics teams who build and program robots to play certain games in tournaments.

The Alliance for Science & Technology Research in Americas 2016 survey indicated that nearly 30 percent of students more than 1.6 million say they would like to pursue STEM in their futures. Active participation in robotics is a great way to get them involved at an early age, said MRC Board PresidentPaul Jutrzonka. Were looking forward to a fun and informational night as the Milwaukee Robotics Coalition makes its presence known and begins its work with individuals, businesses and organizations throughout the area.

The launch party on Feb. 25 will give those interested in learning more about the nonprofit and its mission a chance to meet with MRC board members.

Those interested in learning more about the MRC are encouraged to visit the groups website and Facebook page.

A new nonprofit organization called the Milwaukee Robotics Coalition is launching on Feb. 25.

The group is dedicated to supporting science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) education initiatives.

The MRC Launch Party, which isfree and open to the public, will be held at the 42 Lounge at 326 E. Mason St. from 6:30 pm. to 9 p.m.

MRC is an all-volunteer organization that intends to raise money and provide resources for local school robotics teams. The group is also planning to eventually develop a robotics innovation facility and create a professional network of volunteers to get involved with STEAM initiatives.

The MRCs primary focus after its launch will be to get local schools involved in the FIRST Robotics Competition, which is an international league of high school robotics teams who build and program robots to play certain games in tournaments.

The Alliance for Science & Technology Research in Americas 2016 survey indicated that nearly 30 percent of students more than 1.6 million say they would like to pursue STEM in their futures. Active participation in robotics is a great way to get them involved at an early age, said MRC Board PresidentPaul Jutrzonka. Were looking forward to a fun and informational night as the Milwaukee Robotics Coalition makes its presence known and begins its work with individuals, businesses and organizations throughout the area.

The launch party on Feb. 25 will give those interested in learning more about the nonprofit and its mission a chance to meet with MRC board members.

Those interested in learning more about the MRC are encouraged to visit the groups website and Facebook page.

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Four West Ridge Middle School seventh-graders are going to the U.S. Robotics Championship for VEX robotics in Council Bluff, Iowa, in April after their team Over the Hedge mentored by parent Larry Knipp and robotics coach Jason Spodick won a regional competition at Hill Country Middle School on Jan. 28.

Both Hill Country and West Ridge fielded other teams in the competition, but only the one composed of Mitchell Knipp, Kusal Pedarla, Major Ritchie and Raghav Sharma advanced.

The winning team learn robotics every day from Coach Spodick, and they also practice about six hours a week in Sharmas garage, which includes a rudimentary practice field. Together they designed, developed and programmed their VEX EDR robot.

We have about 120 kids in six robotics classes, Spodick said. All of these boys have been in them at West Ridge.

Students can take this elective once, but teams like Over the Hedge continue building and practicing on their own with the help of parent mentors.

Twenty-six teams competed, and Over the Hedge scored winning points when their robot lifted many yellow stars that look like jacks and threw them over a fence, clearing the field of play. Extra points were earned for the high hang, each time their robot lifted itself a foot off the ground by attaching to a single post during the competition.

Larry Knipp proudly said many teams were unable to do this trick.

Team members said they made many adjustments to their robot before it was ready to compete, because they realized it could be easily tipped over. After their changes, the robot was stabilized and up to the challenge.

Sharma said it took the team between three to four months to build the robot. He pointed out that the design evolves over time. Since their robot is made of metal, the team can strategically cut parts down to a size they need.

I like the adventure in building the robot, testing new ideas to see where we might want to go, Sharma said. The fun is in using it.

Though Sharma loves building robots, his goal for now is to be a great soccer player.

Knipp noted that a key was planning ahead.

The team started designing in September for the competition in January, Knipp said.

Knipp and teammate Kusal Pedarla, are thinking of engineering careers.

Ritchie says, for now, he wants to be a mechanic.

Knipp said of the win, his greatest pleasure was actually seeing something we made, accomplish something.

Im looking forward to seeing snow when we go to Iowa for the championship, Sharma said.

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West Ridge robotics team maneuvers into national championship - Austin American-Statesman

Three Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart students sit in the corner of a classroom discussing a metal device about the size of a milk crate.

The girls, members of the school's Robotics Club, are taking part in the Illinois State Championship at Elgin Community College on Feb. 25. Today, they are figuring how to make their robot shoot a ball through a hoop or up a ramp.

Nearby, two more club members are planning a workshop for visiting students from St. Malachy School in Chicago that will instruct the students on how to design and program a robot.

The Robotics Club at Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest has been growing. Just two years ago it only had five or six consistent members. This year it us up to 21 members, said club moderator and physics teacher John Denman.

"I think they have a lot more STEM-focused classes here," said Genevieve Makowski. "And I bugged some of my friends to join."

Club member Elizabeth Bartusiak said the nature of the group has changed, making it more appealing to new members.

"It's more about bringing in members who have no experience about robotics," she said.

Designing, programming and constructing robots is largely a process of learning from your past mistakes.

"My whole four years has been trial and error," Bartusiak said. "One failed idea takes us to our next successful idea."

For the state competition, students are tasked with creating a robot that will lift a ball 30 inches above the floor.

"We had some other designs," Makowski said. "A tube that would launch balls to go through hoops. That was a design that wouldn't work. We tried to do a rack and pinion. It wouldn't slide."

With the increasing size of the club, students have broken into five committees. Members are focused on building, programming, community outreach, engineering and budgeting.

"The most specialized thing is programming," Makowski said. "You need to understand the coding. Building would be the second most complicated. It's pushing things together and trying to make it work."

Makowski said she joined the club two years ago both because it seemed fun and several of her friends were joining. Bartusiak, a four-year member, was considering a career in the science and technology field and wanted to explore robotics.

Mariana Noble joined the club this year for a different reason.

"Robotics to me has always been a kind of male-dominated field," said Noble, 14. "I've always been interested in bringing women into science and STEM."

"It's still male dominated but it's been getting diversified," Denman said. "One of our Woodlands alums works at a downstate power plan as a nuclear physicist. A lot of Woodlands girls go into medical fields or other science or engineering fields."

Denman takes a hands-off approach as club adviser. At the beginning of a meeting earlier this month, he made a few announcements then left the club members to it.

The club usually meets twice a week during lunch, although it's been meeting more often to prepare for the state competition.

The school budgets money for the club and Motorola Solutions also has awarded a grant to the group. The fathers of two club members work there, Denman said, and the company has supplied an electrical engineer as a mentor.

For more information about the Robotics Club at Woodlands Academy, check out their Instagram account.

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Future trends indicate that there will be a concentration on the collaboration of human and machine, simplified applications, and light-weight robots. We will also see an increased focus on modular robots and robotic systems, which will be marketed at exceptionally alluring prices.

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It is anticipated that our economy will need to generate about a million jobs a year just to keep up with future growth. Because of the digital revolution, many new jobs have been created, but they are not labor intensive. This is where robots come into play. As the economy expands, we will need both humans for the mental tasks, and robots to handle the tedious and dangerous work.

Automation is extending beyond factories and distribution centers. White collar jobs are starting to be replaced by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has already replaced various human jobs in music, journalism, teaching, research and other typical human careers. Attorneys are replacing paralegals with search engines, which are more efficient in finding topics than any human. Medical devices are assisting doctors in analyzing a patients symptoms with suggested solutions.

There will be a time when robots will make our goods and handle the services to support those goods. China is already aware that they do not have enough robots in the workforce. China is now the fastest growing and largest robotics market in the world, due mainly to an aging population, something that the U.S. is also facing. By next year, the robot population in China will explode. A third of all robots manufactured will be sold in China.

We are going through an industrial revolution, and it is accelerating. In the next few years, around 1.4 million industrial robots will be entering service in factories around the world. In the high-revenue automotive sector, global investments in industrial robots increased by a record-breaking 43 percent in just one year. The international market value for robotic systems is now about $32 billion. In the race for automation in manufacturing, the European Union is currently one of the global frontrunners with 65 percent of the EU countries having an above-average number of industrial robots per 10,000 employees. Still, the strongest growth for robots will be found in China with 40 percent of the worldwide market volume of industrial robots will be sold there alone in 2019. (World Robot Statistics, issued by the International Federation of Robotics).

There doesnt seem to be a shortage of industrial robots, as the number of robots deployed worldwide will increase to around 2.6 million units by 2019. 70 percent of the industrial robots are presently working in the automotive, electronics, metal and machinery industries.

At present, the U.S. is the fourth largest single market for industrial robots in the world. Within the U.S., Canada and Mexico, newly installed industrial robots rose by 17 percent. The U.S. accounts for three-quarters of all units sold at a 5 percent growth. The demand in Canada rose by 49 percent, while Mexico grew by 119 percent. If the economic situation can last, we might see an average annual growth of 5 to 10 percent in sales of robots from 2017 to 2019. Right now, NAFTA is on an unsteady course, so these figures might change.

HIT Robot Group, a Chinese company associated with the Harbin Institute of Technology, created an automated production line for lithium ion batteries that appears to be one giant robot. Robotic vehicles carry components between several manufacturing machines. The only place where you can find humans is inside a control room in the center. HIT estimates the new factory could reduce human labor by as much as 85 percent while manufacturing 150,000 batteries a day.

Patents for robotics and autonomous systems have jumped double-digit year-on-year for the last three years. According to a report published by the UK Intellectual Property Office, the number of global published patents for these technologies increased 9 percent of all of the global patents with Japan, Germany and the U.S. accounting for most of the patents.

In North America, robot orders were up 10 percent in 2016 compared to 2015, according to the Robotics Industry Association. 34,606 robots were ordered in North America with a total market value of $1.9 billion. For the fourth quarter, robot orders hit 10,621 valued at $561 million, up 21 percent from a year ago, which is a good indicator for 2017. The global industrial robotics market is expected to reach $79.58 billion by 2022, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11.92% between 2016 and 2022.

The food and consumer goods industries ordered 32% more robots in 2016 than the previous year with food safety inspections, packaging, picking, handling and palletizing being among the highest applications for these robots.

Capping its most successful year in history, the robotics, vision and motion control industries are preparing to come together for Automate 2017, North Americas largest automation exhibition and conference April 3-6 in Chicago. Over 300 exhibitors and a record 20,000 attendees are expected to gather.

How will the robot manufacturers keep up? Venture capital investments in robotics technology start-ups are on the rise. Capital investments by U.S. venture capital firms escalated to about $172 million. This increase in investments is an especially meaningful signal that the robotics industry could see an accelerated growth as these VC-backed companies grow. It provides a window into the future as to what the investment community believes will be promising and profitable.

The robotic industry is booming in China, there are thousands of local robotic companies jumping into the market, manufacturing both industrial robots and service robots. China is not only a large supplier of low-wage workers, but also a source of high technology with robotics manufacturing being one of the hottest trends. The Robot Report and the research team at Robo-STOX have been able to identify 194 companies that make or are directly involved in making robots in China.

Future trends indicate that there will be a concentration on the collaboration of human and machine, simplified applications, and light-weight robots. We will also see an increased focus on modular robots and robotic systems, which will be marketed at exceptionally alluring prices.

The request for industrial robots will also be driven by an assortment of factors, which include the processing of new materials, energy efficiency, and improved automation concepts.

The one thing that is certain is that the manufacturers of robots are building an army of robots ready to step in and handle the tasks of the future.

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Are there enough robots? - Robotics Tomorrow (press release)

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CINCINNATI The Van Wert High School Robotics Team is headed to super-regional competition after capturing the state title over the weekend.

The VWHS Robotics Team poses after winning the state robotics competition in Cincinnati on Saturday. (photo submitted)

The team competed in Cincinnati over the weekend in the First Tech Challenge state championship, overcoming a couple of losses in early rounds, but persevering and eventually landing a partnership with the No. 2 team going into the semifinals.

After sweeping the first best of three semifinals, the team faced the top-seeded team and, after losing the first match of the finals, the VWHS Robotics Team,along with the TBD Robotics Team from Aurora, took the final two matches.

Only five teams from Ohio advance to the next level, according to VWHS Robotics Team Coach Bob Spath. Winning the state championship advances the Van Wert team to the North Super-Regional competition in Iowa at the end of March, where the top teams from 11 states will compete for coveted spots in the World Championship.

Spath and fellow Coach Zane McElroy said they are thrilled to have the opportunity to represent the Van Wert community at the Super-Regional competition.

The team earned a spot in the state competition by winning its own 28-team qualifying competition held in the VWHS gymnasium on January 28.

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By Ron Sandstrom Special to The Conway Daily Sun

Team 5106c, conisting of Chani Mores and Kate Keefe, are one of five Kennett robotics squads. (COURTESY PHOTO)CONWAY The Kennett High Coders are on a roll, with all five Coder robotics teams qualifying for the New England Championships.

Qualifying teams are: Team 5106A sophomore Lucas Glasshart and freshman David Sheehan; Team 5106B juniors Richard Chavez, Tyler James and Carter Stevens; Team 5106C freshmen Chani Mores and Kate Keefe; Team 5106E juniors Matt Ballou, Justin Barrett and Taylor Bouchard; and Team 5106Z seniors Clyne Sullivan and Andrew Belle-Isle.

Kennett has qualified for the VEX World Championships in four out of the last five years. They hope to make it five. This week, the Coders will be competing Saturday at Manchester Community College in the 2017 NH/VT VEX Robotics State Championships.

This year's competition is called Star Struck, and teams compete by guiding their robots to hurl 12-inch stars and 14-inch cubes over a fence into the scoring zone of their opponents. At the same time, opponent alliance teams return the favor by hurling the stars and cubes back over the fence.

A big part of this year's design challenge is to create a robot that can effectively lift these scoring objects and deliver them faster than the opponent robots can deliver them back.

All robots must start the event and measure into an 18-inch-by-18-inch box. After starting, the robots can expand to a larger size, something all the competitive robots do. All robots are limited to a fixed set of motors and equipment, making the design process a critical component of success.

Software makes the robots come alive. At Kennett, the robotics team focuses on making the software smarter and more efficient than any other team. An example of this is the auto-shoot functionality used by multiple Kennett teams. For instance, the auto-shoot code will hunt a scoring object, pick it up and spin toward the fence, and then execute a toss and flick while releasing the scoring object exactly at the right time.

With a goal of returning to the World Championships for the fifth consecutive year, the team must win the state championships or win the design or excellence award at the event. Another way to reach the worlds is to be one of the top 50 teams in the world in skills ranking.

As of now, Coders Team 5106C (Mores and Keefe) is ranked 64th in the world in skills, with two weeks to improve that score. Other Kennett teams are ranked 487th, 1,627th and 3,053th in world rankings.

Over the course of the season, Kennett teams have been in the finals of each of the five events in which they have competed.

Last weekend, Mores and Keefe won the final event before the state championships and moved into third in the state in total skills points. Over the season, they won two judges awards, an excellence award, a design award and two event championships.

Not to mention, with 52 teams voting at the Pembroke competition, the team won the inspire award the team most inspirational to the other teams. Impressive for a freshman team to pull off. The two girls were part of the middle school robotics club last year.

Most Kennett teams have been working on their robots several afternoons a week for the past two months. 5106E started work last spring.

Going into the New Hampshire Wrap-Up Tournament, two Kennett teams had yet to qualify. With the pressure on, both teams arrived ready to compete. Team 5106B (Chavez, James and Stevens) opened their tool kits and began immediate surgery on their robot, working to make last-minute improvements.

Both teams' updates resulted in improved performance in the matches and the robot skills field. It was great to see 5106A and 5106B qualify for the state championships. 5106A also was the top qualifier from the elimination rounds while 5106B who focused on skills made a remarkable jump to score enough points to move to eighth in the state.

At end of the qualifying rounds, all the Kennett Teams at the match were competing in the championship rounds. With five teams in the state championships, Kennett's chances are improved.

Coaches for the 2016-2017 season are Daniel Richardi and Joe Riddensdale, and mentors are Chris Ballou, Laura Glasshart and Ron Sandstrom.

High school robotics programs rely on mentors, volunteers and sponsors such as Big Dave's Bagels, Dunkin' Donuts, Brandli's Pizza, Flatbread Pizza, Kennett High School, the Mt Washington Valley Economic Council, the Masons, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Whitehorse Press, RLSAND Inc and individual contributions.

Donations to support Kennett High School robotics club would be much appreciated. They can be sent to: MWVFirst, c/o MWV Economic Council (Diane Ryan), 53 Technology Lane, Suite 100, Conway, NH 03818. Checks should be made payable to MWVFirst.

Ron Sandstrom of Madison is one of three mentors for the Kennett Coders robotics teams.

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Kennett Coders to compete in NH State Robotics Championships on Saturday - Conway Daily Sun

Cave Spring High School's Robotics Club competed against 50 teams in the First Tech Challenge Robotics Competition at Norfolk State University on February 4.

The club won the following awards:

- Second place team alliance

- 1st Place Controls Award - Goes to team with best controls design.

- 2nd place Inspire Award - Goes to team that has a top robot, engineering designs, notebook, outreach, and shows a lot of effort to help other teams in competition

- 2 team members selected to state semi-finals for Dean's list award

- Qualified for States Championship

We had an amazing weekend and even though we had a TON of issues the entire day, we always found a way to overcome the challenge at hand.

Submitted by Scott Hudson and CSHS Robotics Rampage

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Cave Spring High School's Robotics Club wins in the First Tech Challenge Robotics competition - Roanoke Times

Using controllers to command their robots, South Carroll High School's robotics teams competed against other robotics teams from around the state. Mount St. Mary's University and STEMaction Inc. hosted 48 teams who competed in the 2017 Maryland FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge Championship Sunday in Emmitsburg.

A total of 107 teams from Maryland and Washington, D.C., went through six qualifying tournaments to determine which would attend the Maryland Championship. The top four teams will advance to the East Super Regional in Pennsylvania in March and from there to the FIRST Championships in St. Louis in April.

South Carroll High School teacher Sean Lee mentors FIRST Robotics teams 6284 RoboCavs Black and 10001 RoboCavs Silver. He explained that the teams each compete in five matches. During the two and a half minute matches, the teams create two-robot alliances who work together to shoot small balls into goals, claim infrared beacons and raise large balls.

"You have to accumulate as many wins as you can," Lee explained. "You have to learn to cooperate with your enemies. It's all about gracious professionalism. We encourage teamwork and cooperation as much as competition. We encourage the kids to go out and do their best."

The students build and program their robots throughout the school year. They continually update and modify the robots.

"It can take weeks or months to get the robots to do what you want," Lee said. "There's plenty of learning opportunities. We don't call them mistakes."

The students compete with two controllers and each button has a specific function.

"Each function is a design challenge that the kids have to work on," Lee said. "They have to decide what they want the robot to concentrate on."

The South Carroll High program is sponsored by Bechtel, Leidos and the W.R. Grace Foundation. Students also raise additional funds for the program through fundraisers and the tuition paid to attend a robotics summer camp.

Lee said the program started five years ago and only had eight students. Now 50 students are involved in it.

"They get real engineering experience," Lee said. "We've graduated 23 kids through the program. Twenty-one are in engineering or science related fields at major universities."

Lee said when the program began, there were no female students involved. The program now has 10 females who participate, and they have formed their own team, RoboCavs Silver.

"There's a friendly rivalry between the teams," Lee said. "The girls tend to be more focused on the engineering process, allowing them to produce a more reliable robot. The boys are more about thinking outside of the box. We hope to combine the two thought processes to make a great team next year."

South Carroll High School senior Lauren Bahnsen, of Mount Airy, said she joined the program because she wants to be an engineer.

"I'm learning to appreciate the difference between the physical and theoretical world," Bahnsen said. "Earlier this season, we wanted the robot to lift the ball, but when we were designing it we realized that it would be more difficult than we expected."

Bahnsen said they ended up "scrapping the whole idea and deciding to make a complimentary robot."

"We focused on doing things that other teams wouldn't think of," Bahnsen said. "We designed it to help our ally as much as possible by delivering balls and going after beacons."

Junior Chris Scalzi, of Westminster, said he "really liked the competition this year."

"It's neat to see the other robots. You see a lot of cool ideas," Scalzi said.

Senior Michael Shockey, of Mount Airy, said he joined the program because he was "into building things. I fell in love with it."

"It's an experience you don't usually get," Shockey said. "I love the challenge."

Shockey said the team members "really work together well and everyone put forth their best effort."

While neither of the teams were chosen for the finals, the RoboCavs Silver finished with 2 wins and 3 losses, and the RoboCavs Black finished with 1 win and 4 losses.

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6284 RoboCavs Black

Scott Simpson, Sander Cochran, Chris Scalzi, Connor Gleason, Matt Dolecki, Alex Seidel, Jacob Sabonis, Zach Sweeney, Matt Graham, Cole Stricker, Michael Shockey, Jackson Foran, Jacob Wolff, Mat Erickson, Aidan Yeo

10001 RoboCavs Silver

Veronika Fermin, Joy Nunez, Sydney Arcuri, Lucia Hadsall, Chloe Kerwin, Lizzy Gabel, Allie King, Anna Plass, Madison Snyder, Lauren Bahnsen

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South Carroll Robotics teams compete at Maryland State Robotics Competition - Carroll County Times

EMMITSBURG, Md. - All eyes were on the PNC Mount Saint Mary's Sports Complex as 48 robotics teams and over 500 middle and high school students compete in Maryland's first tech challenge championship.

Students practiced hands on STEMactivities then teamed up to build driving robots. These teams went through 6 qualifying tournaments to make it to this championship.

"These little particles and putting them into center vortexes to earn points and capping balls and moving stuff around on the field while being cooperative so competing and being cooperative with the people they're competing against" , said Zachary Trautwein, a STEM teacher at Southern Garrett high school.

The first tech challenge program is designed to inspire students to become technology and engineering innovators.

"Trying to build robots that's are eighteen by eighteen to compete with a certain challenge since then. And were at the state championship to see who will move on to super regionals to see who will go on to St Louis in April", said Mariah Bolden, a STEM student at Southern Garrett high school.

"This is a great opportunity for the students its shows that we as a society values science and engineering. It gives them a place to showcase their skills, they're going to do stuff here that they probably aren't doing in school in regular science class.", said Jeffrey Simmons, the Dean of Natural Science and Math at Mount Saint Mary's University.

In this program, the students are also strongly encouraged to work as a team to cooperate to foster a culture of gracious professionalism.

The top competitive teams will advance to compete at the final robotics championship held in St. Louis in April of this year.

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Local students go head-to-head in national robotics competition - WHAG