Robotics Team Captures Gold at St. Louis

March 4, 2008
Lion Ledger

The Greenville High School Robotics team, the Robowranglers, won the St. Louis Regional of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition this past weekend.  They did it in true Texas style by defeating all their opponents and taking the gold medal with a perfect 16-0 record.

In three days of practice, seeding and competition, the team kept all their opponents in the loss column, while the Robowranglers and their robot, Tumbleweed, kept everyone's head spinning, literally.  In this year's challenge the team chose to build a racecar robot that circles the field for points.

Ending seeding matches as the number one seed, the team was able to choose two partner teams to take to the elimination rounds.  The Robowranglers partnered with two squads from Michigan: the Thunderchickens from Sterling and the Rat Pack from Ann Arbor, for the championship bouts.

The Robowranglers are a robotics team made up of students and teachers from Greenville High School and engineers from RackSolutions.com and L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, who team together each year to build a robot in six weeks.

The next regional round is scheduled for March 27-29 in New Orleans and the championships in Atlanta are set for April 17-19.

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