Sharon Youth Robotics Association
New season starts
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Sharon Youth Robotics Association New season starts |
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New season starts for robotics teamSharon Advocate - Friday, August 27th, 200408-27-04 -- On April 16, the Sharon Eagle Robotics team was competing on-stage in an international field of youth robotics teams, in front of a cheering crowd at the Georgia Dome. The Sharon team consisted of students Julia Gawle, Nawal Hourani, Rebecca Levenson, Ben and David Mende, Michelle Parziale, Patrick Pilvines, and Omer Zaidi (their teammates Kimberly Cho and Alex Falcon were not able to make the trip). It was a fantastic culmination to an awesome season. The Sharon Eagle Robotics team won the Director's Award, the Robotic Performance award, and the Teamwork award at the Eastern Massachusetts State tournament on Jan. 18, a combined team was created to represent the Sharon Youth Robotics Association at the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Mission Mars Invitational. Traveling to Atlanta, Ga. along with a group of their coaches and parents, they competed with 48 top teams from the US and Canada, as well as Austria, Den-mark, Korea and the United Kingdom. Hundreds of high school teams, some participating in their first Robotics Competition, competed. From the preliminary rounds and presentations, through the evening party at the SciTrek museum (Brown Shugah Vanilla!), followed by the competition rounds and special group challenges, and then the final awards ceremony, all the participants had a great time that will not be forgotten. They formed new friendships (especially the MADison Scientists from Alabama) and visited different sites (Coke World was a hit). The Sharon Youth Robotics Association (SYRA), now in its fifth year, was founded by Jack Gregory to foster the goals of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for nine through 14-year-old students in Sharon. Teams are to be formed to meet the annual FIRST LEGO League challenge. In the past, there have been as many as eight teams, but there is always room for more. The theme of the 2004 competition (to be released on Sept. 15) will be "No Limits", and address through robotics the challenges of disabilities. The SYRA meets weekly during the challenge season (through early December), for mentoring, mutual support and preliminary competitions. Our first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 2 at 6 p.m. at the Sharon Public Library, in the Cynthia B. Fox Community Room on the lower level. We will start forming new teams, as well as demonstrate robots and discuss the FLL and the SYRA. The meeting is open to the public. All Sharon residents interested in participating are encouraged to attend, as prospective team members, coaches or mentors. Our regular season meetings will be at the same venue, at 6 p.m. each Tuesday, starting on Sept. 14. The SYRA would like to especially thank the Sharon Public Library and its director, Kip Roberson, for providing us a meeting place while the Sharon Community Center is unavailable. It is greatly appreciated. The FIRST LEGO League was created in partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Company in 1998, the pilot season with 200 teams participating. This fall, more than 4000 FLL teams all over the world will accept the "No Limits" challenge, which will engage them in robotics design, as well as research into technological topics. Each team will build and program a LEGO Mindstorms robot to accomplish various tasks set out as part of the challenge. The robots must autonomously (no remote control!) its missions with a 2.5 minute period for accumulating points. After eight weeks, the season will culminate with high-energy, sports-like tournaments. FLL - Sports for the Mind! More information is available on the Internet, at http://www.syraweb.org/, where you will also find links to a number of useful sites, including those of FIRST and the FIRST LEGO League. Please send your questions to syraweb@comcast.net, or just come to our next meeting.
Below, last
year's Sharon Eagle Robotics Team poses for the camera. They have
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