NORTH BRUNSWICK – The North Brunswick Raider Robotix team has finished a highly successful season.
The team concluded its competitions with an appearance at the Science Symposium at North Brunswick Township High School on May 6.
Raider Robotix team members and mentors gave an impromptu presentation on what it’s like to be on a competitive FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics team and provided short tours of their robot workshop, according to information provided by the team.
The week prior, the team was in the No. 1 alliance in the FIRST World Championship April 26 – 28 in Detroit. At the competition, Raider Robotix was the 19th-ranked team, and was the first team selected by the No. 1 seeded team to form a four-team alliance. North Brunswick’s Team 25 and its partners were eliminated in the semi-finals.
Earlier this robotics season, Team 25 won three Winner’s blue banners at the FIRST Mid-Atlantic Regional District events held at Mount Olive High School, Montgomery High School and Hatboro-Horsham in Pennsylvania; and were finalists at the Mid-Atlantic Robotics District Championship at Lehigh University.
In addition to these accomplishments, Team 25 was also awarded an engineering award and a creativity award for their robot’s design, according to the statement.
Brunswick Eruption, the country’s largest single-day off-season robotics competition, is set for Nov. 10 at the high school. More than 40 high school-aged teams attend this event, which is free and open to the public.
The 2019 FIRST Robotics Competition season will begin in January when the new game will be revealed. Destination: Deep Space will commemorate the 1969 flight of Apollo 11 to the moon, and the landing of the lunar module Eagle on the moon.
For more information on the team, visit www.raiderrobotix.org.
