Robotics teams off to top tourney – Escanaba Daily Press

Courtesy photo Members of Carney-Nadeau Wolf Robotics are pictured along with the awards they won this year. The team will complete their first year participating in FIRST Robotics at the world championship in St. Louis, Mo. next week, where they will compete with the Gladstone and Bark River-Harris teams.

ST. LOUIS Several local robotics teams will be heading to St. Louis, Mo., for the FIRST Robotics World Championship next week. The event will run from April 26 to April 29.

One team from the Upper Peninsula that will be attending this competition is Gladstones BraveBots. By the end of last weekends FIRST Robotics Michigan State Championship, the BraveBots were one of the highest-ranked teams in the state of Michigan.

We boosted our rank to fourth in the state out of 451 teams, Lead Mentor Tim Barron said.

As a result, they will be going to the FIRST Robotics World Championship. Barron said that, while the BraveBots have gone to this event before, they are doing better than ever in 2017.

This is the highest weve ever been ranked in the state, he said.

According to Barron, it was the effort put in by the BraveBots students and mentors that made this possible.

We have a very dedicated group of kids and mentors, he said.

Wolf Robotics, Carney-Nadeaus FIRST Robotics team, will also be heading to St. Louis next week.

Its almost unexplainable, what were feeling, Co-Lead Mentor Andrea Chaney said.

One of the reasons the team is so excited about going to St. Louis is because Wolf Robotics is a newcomer to the U.P.s robotics scene 2017 was their rookie year.

Its just so unexpected, Chaney said.

Wolf Robotics was ranked at #99 in the state at the end of the FIRST Robotics Michigan State Championship; they also won the State All-Star Rookie Award, allowing them to compete on the international level. Chaney attributed the teams successful season to the hard work put in by the teams members and mentors, along with the assistance given to them by their community.

We had a lot of community support, she said.

Along with teams from Carney-Nadeau and Gladstone, Bark River-Harris I.C.E. Cubed will be attending the FIRST Robotics World Championship. Lead Mentor Mick Reynolds said the first part of the teams name is an acronym for Innovate, Collaborate, Elevate.

Thats what were hoping the kids will learn, he said.

By the end of the FIRST Robotics Michigan State Championship, I.C.E. Cubed ranked as the #36 team in the state.

Were more than qualified, Reynolds said.

This was a better outcome than the team was expecting, Reynolds said.

Our goal was to stay in the top 80 teams, he said. In contrast, I.C.E. Cubeds ranking at this point last year was in the 200s.

Reynolds noted that the students in I.C.E. Cubed are extremely excited to attend the FIRST Robotics World Championship.

The kids are absolutely stoked, he said.

Reynolds said I.C.E. Cubeds success was the result of the people involved with the team.

All the credit for that goes to our high school kids and the adult mentors that help us out, he said.

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