Orcas Christian School has a new advanced robotics team

Orcas Christian School’s new Advanced Robotics Team competed in their first event of the year at the “First Tech Challenge” (FTC) meet and will advance to the inter-league Championships in January, where 8 Washington State teams will advance to the State Championships. The OCS team consists of: builders, drivers, programmers, Cad Cam modelers and logistics analysts that build from scratch,

December 18, 2015 6:53 pm
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Orcas Christian School’s new Advanced Robotics Team competed in their first event of the year at the “First Tech Challenge” (FTC) meet and will advance to the inter-league Championships in January, where 8 Washington State teams will advance to the State Championships. The OCS team consists of: builders, drivers, programmers, Cad Cam modelers and logistics analysts that build from scratch,

A working robot. Each event has a “Theme” and the robot must be reconfigured to meet the objectives of the different themes each new competition describes.

“Our students created an Android app that we can program to drive our Robot or we can use controllers to accomplish some of the more tactile obstacles. This was our first meet since moving up to this advanced category and we did very well. The students really shined,” said robotics professor Greg McKelvey.