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GHS FIRST team
goes undefeated at regionals
March 2, 2008
Greenville Herald Banner
By Brad Kellar
Herald-Banner Staff
Talk about
domination.
The Greenville
High School/L-3 Communications Robowranglers Team not only
won a regional round of the FIRST (For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology) campaign Saturday,
they overwhelmed all of their opponents.
"We went totally
undefeated," said team member Chris Follett.
The team was
competing in the Overdrive event in St. Louis, Mo., the
first of two regional rounds leading up to the FIRST
championships in Atlanta.
Follett said the
team went 10-0 through the qualifying rounds to become the
top seed, then partnered with two squads from Michigan:
The Thunderchickens from Sterling and The Rat Pack from Ann
Arbor, for the championship bouts.
"In the each of
the quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds we had to win
two out of three," Follett said. "We went 2-0, 2-0 and
2-0 all the way through."
The Robowranglers
is 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 FIRST Robotics
Championships produce challenges desined to showcase the
science and math talents of each team. 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.
The next regional
round is scheduled for March 27-29 in New Orleans and the
championships in Atlanta are set for April 17-19.
Those wanting more
information about the team can check out the squad's Web
site at www.robowranglers.com or the team's blog at
http://team148.blogspot.com.
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