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Rotary visits Alpha 2130 robotics team |
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March 21, 2017 |
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The Bonners Ferry Rotary held its meeting at the
Bonners Ferry Middle School March 14 for a
demonstration of the competition bot designed
and built by the Bonners Ferry Robotics Team,
Alpha 2130. The team gets only six weeks at the
beginning of each year to build their robots for
FIRST competition.
The 2017 FIRST SteamWorks competition will be
held at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada,
April 6-8, and this year, 85,000 students will
be participating, include teams from China,
Turkey, Mexico, Australia, the United States and
Canada.
This is the 11th year for Bonners Ferry High
School Alpha 2130, and the team truly feels as
if they are a team. In the beginning, kids had
to start each year from scratch and fumble their
way through. Juniors and seniors now work with
younger students, training replacements to
continue progress with the team rather than
having to start over as upperclassmen graduate
and move on.
Departments on the robotics team include the
business, electrical, programmers and builders.
And within the business department, students
must learn to write grants and other requests
for sponsorship and fundraising.
FIRST Robotics benefits students each year, not
only in the field of science and technology by
building and programming robots, but also in
mentorship and leadership skills and building
self-confidence in young people.
The Middle School is hoping to add a robotics
class to the curriculum in the next year or so
to interest students in participating at the
class level.
Bonners Ferry Rotary is proud of how hard these
kids work and of their accomplishments through
the robotics program!
For more information, or to help sponsor or
support this great team, visit
www.BFHSRobotics.com or their FaceBook page,
https://www.facebook.com/FirstTeam2.
To watch a live stream of the competition, visit
www.theBlueAlliance.com. |
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