Robotics Field Trip

The Robo-Hounds competed in the Robotics Competition on April 28. So Glenridge fifth grade piled into a bus and got to experience the Robotics Convencion in the America’s Center.

Many kid’s loved going downtown to see this event that has been going on for seven years. Clayton or Robo-Hounds team was picked as a wild card and won their game. It was fun for many students to see their hometown win in fact Madeline says “It was great to see Clayton competing and winning.” Once they won Madeline was one of the people who stood up and got to be on the big screen. Many people were glad that Clayton could win for the last time before the event got moved. Next year Glenridge will not be able to visit this event because next year it will be held in Houston. Even though many Barnes kids loved it “It was a nice experience to have.” Say Claudia. But, next year other kid’s will get that experience over 15,000 kids from Kindergarten through High School, from 33 different countries go there every year.

This big competition started in 1989 when Dean Kamen inventor of the Segway Human Transporter wanted to promote S.T.E.M. And it has there were many all girls robotics teams including the Robet's. Who Mrs. Barnes said "The Robet's were my favorite team!" And the Robet's did well in the game. The rules of the competition are simple they have six weeks to build a robot based on a game. This year’s game or challenge was the collect and shoot the balls. If you got a ball into the basket it was one point. And f your robot was able to collect the gears around the court that gave them extra points.

We hope to hear more about this competition next year as fifth grade will become middle schoolers. Happy summer stay cool out there!