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The Robowranglers
are a robotics team comprised of students and teachers from
Greenville High School and engineers from RackSolutions.com
and L-3 Communications Integrated Systems in Greenville,
Texas. Each year through the FIRST Robotics Competition,
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 with engineers each evening 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. The object of this year's competition, "FIRST
Overdrive," is to attain a higher score than your opponent
by making counter-clockwise laps with your robot around the
track while moving large balls over and/or under the
overpass that bisects the track. Six 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, is not to score points,
but to maintain a sense of gracious professionalism and
build lasting partnerships.
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Students on the
team this year are Rae Arnold, Allison Chitwood, Michelle
Colwell, Cody Fields, Bethany Follett, Elise Follett, Parker
Foote, Parker Francis, Ben Gilbert, Regan Haralson, Ethan
Isham, Trent Jones, Katie Kroncke, Austin Lambert, Julie
Latimer, Mark Mahrer, Logan Marcum, Zack McClellen, Chris
McMurray, Adam Risley, Laura Risley, Charles Wensel, Kaleb
Wright. The team is being coached by Greenville High
School instructors Vanessa Pope and Johnny Tharp. Engineers volunteering from
RackSolutions.com
are Corey Chitwood, Brandon Martus, Amanda Morrison, Ricky Torrance and John V-Neun. Engineers from L-3
Communications Integrated Systems are Chris Follett, John
Hodapp, Steve Maxwell, Adam Reppond, Kevin Rodgers, Ken
Stroud, Casey Welch and Monty Wineinger. College
mentors are Matt Mahrer and Kevin Morris. |
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