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 Welcome
to the official web site of the Robowranglers, a
robotics team comprised of students and teachers
from Greenville High School and engineers from L-3
Communications Integrated Systems. Each year
through the FIRST Robotics Competition, L-3
volunteer engineers, high school students, and
members from the community partner together to
build a robot in a time period of six weeks.
Through this building process, engineers mentor
students in brainstorming, prototyping, design, and
creation of the robot and its functions.
Students work at L-3 each night to create and
build the various parts needed for the
robot. This enables the students to take
classroom concepts from the math and science
fields and apply them to a real world situation.
Reality sets in as competition begins. The
FIRST Robotics Competitions are centered on a new
engineering challenge or "game" each year designed
to showcase the science and math talents of team
members. Four teams, paired in two
alliances, will compete in each match. Each
alliance works together to try and beat the other
alliance by scoring the most points in a
two-minute match. After all of the teams at
the regional competition have completed a series
of qualification matches, the teams will be
ranked. The top eight teams will then choose
allies from among the remaining teams and form
eight alliances. These eight alliances will
then compete in a best two-out-of-three series of
elimination matches until an event-winning
alliance emerges. The main goal of the
competition, however, is not to score points, but
to maintain a sense of gracious professionalism
and build lasting partnerships.
To
be able to travel to the FIRST events, the
students of the team have to keep busy raising
money to cover the expenses. As part of the
Pennies for the Bot program, the Robowranglers go
door to door and business to business every year
in search of pennies. With the support of
the community and the students of Greenville High
School, the fundraiser is an annual success,
raising over $1,000 each year.
 Students
serving as officers of team 148 this year are
Matt Mahrer,
President;
Beth
McClellen, Vice President;
Lizzy
Wisdom, Secretary;
Michael Risley,
Publicity Chairperson;
Sarah Wright,
Attendance Chairperson;
Megan
Wineinger, Spirit Chairperson; and
Ashley Owens,
Liaison. The team is being coached by
Greenville High School instructors
Vanessa Pope
and
Terri
Galloway, and New Horizons Learning Center
instructor
Johnny Tharp. Engineers volunteering from L-3 Communications
Integrated Systems are
Tom Cloutier,
James
Collier,
Adam Davies,
Chris Follett,
John Hodapp,
Steve Lindo,
Steve
Maxwell,
Adam Reppond,
Ray Upp,
Mike
Waggoner,
Casey Welch, and
Monty
Wineinger. Also mentoring from the
community are
Brad Marcum,
David Maxwell,
Andy McClellen,
Matt Sikes, and
Ricky
Torrance.
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The
first version of Team 148's website debuted for the
2001-2002 school year at www.teamgreenville.org.
The site was designed and maintained by student
