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YES Prep SE Competes in FIRST Robotics

February 01, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

Robotics is INTENSE, ENJOYABLE, and all about TEAMWORK. Those are some of the words that describe what Robotics means to us. The Robotics Team 2737 at YES PREP Southeast is working extremely hard on this year’s robot because we want to do our best in the Regional Competition (April 1 – 3). This is our second year to be in the competition.

What is Robotics? The FIRST Robotics Competition is described as “the varsity sport for the mind” on the FIRST Robotics Competition website. The competition combines the excitement of sports with the rigors of science and technology. 

As a part of our journey to the competition day, we went to the FIRST Robotics Kick-Off in Plano, Texas to start building our robot. A fellow Robotics teammate, Marco Cortez, described his experience at our second trip to the Dallas Regional Kick-off.

“My Robotics Team 2737 attended the FIRST Robotics Kick-Off in Plano, Texas. We departed to Plano, Texas the day before the kick-off; it was a long five hour bus drive to La Quinta Inn. I think that the bus trip to Plano felt much longer and was much more fun than the bus ride home. This was probably because I was excited to go to Plano! It was my first time going on the trip... Plano was great; I enjoyed eating cookies and popcorn while working on the robot. I was on the Electrical group; we worked on wiring up and setting up all the fundamental components of the robot. We had to drill holes in a plexi glass board so that we could attach the electronics to the frame. There were two other groups: the Chassis group and the Mechanical group. The Chassis group set up the motors, while the Mechanical group worked on assembling the robot frame. At the end of the day, we gathered to put all the parts together: the motors, the frame, and the electrical board. We were missing some parts but we managed to get all the vital components together.”

We hope to get support from others so that we can do many more things on our robot. We are going to succeed at this year’s competition! We appreciate any type of help: monetary donations, supplies, or even help building our robot. If you want to know more information about our team go to our Facebook Page: YES Prep FIRST Robotics Team 2737, our YouTube Page: YESWizards, or to our Blog page on http://team2737.blogspot.com/.

By: Judith Andrade, Veronica Martinez, Ashley Rincon

Judith, Veronica, and Ashley are High School students at YES Prep SE, and they are on the Fundraising / PR / Advertising Group for the Robotics 2737 Team with Mrs. Tara Johnson. If you would like more information about our Robotics team or our Fundraising / PR / Advertising Group, please contact us at: tara.alcancia@yesprep.org.

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