, the sounds of students tinkering with machinery filled the corridors.
The robotics team has a roster of 67 students, and they were joined Tuesday by their championship qualifying robot named Lithium. The team recently qualified for the first time to compete for a world title in the international FIRST Robotics Competition. The event is scheduled to take place in Houston in the coming weeks.
The robotics team has spent the last 10 weeks building Lithium and teaching it how to pick up inflatable cubes and plastic cones and project them into baskets and onto cones.Right now, the team is focused on modifying Lithium. Once that’s done the robot will be dismantled down to the wheels and gears before being redesigned and rebuilt. The goal it to build an even better robot.