South Bay Team Eager to Show Mettle in Robotics

States 3 January 2004 - Beach Cities Robotics award-winning high www.bcrobotics.org robotics team outlined plans for an upcoming international competition. On Saturday, January 10th, 2004, the state of FIRST Robotics teams, hundreds of people across the country, and a growing number of international teams, will receive the guidelines for the competition in 2004 by the transmission cable channel NASA and then take a kit of mechanical parts immediately begin designing a robot at home for a series of tasks. Team has 294 students from two rival schools, Redondo Union High and Mira Costa High, a robotics team. If he missed the second team in Southern California last year's competition and also won the Engineering Award and the inspiration for Johnson and Johnson Sportsmanship. The team this season is the eighth in the program. That won the 2001 Regional and National Championship. Several senior members enrolled in the engineering college, five high school students attended a class at El Camino Junior College, welding, and the two captains of the students participated in the training of teachers of Lego Mindstorms only high school students promoted by increased RoboEducators for this program. Some 900 teams from around the country as well as teams from Brazil, Canada, Britain and Mexico, to attend the first annual report (For Inspiration and Recognition of www.usfirst.org Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. Last year, the first participant needed to build a robot capable of moving boxes and stacks oversized rubber. "The interesting thing is not what we do but how we do it, โ € Ruhs said sophomore Marygrace Barron, co-captain of the coastal cities 25-member team." It's great that ends with a robot, but the best part is seeing how it's done and who participate in this process. "The team met weekly for years daycamps teaching robotics the summer ', making exhibitions, attend classes in robotics, "mentoring Lego League teams, helping Lego League Tournament in the South Bay, learning new skills and preparation for next season. After learning the game rules, 2004, members will work every weekend and three times a week, because they have only six weeks to stop the robot and send Phoenix to its first regional competition. The team will compete in the Southern California Regional Friday and Saturday, 26-27 March 2004, based in Los Angeles Sports Arena. This is the largest robotics competition in California high school with over 2,000 students and 60 schools in the U.S. high. The races are lively, high-tech spectator sporting events to rock music buttons, a vision of wild WWF style costume, with clocks, referees and cheerleaders. The competition is free and open to the public. During the construction period of the team members also build an entire practice field for teams in southern California to investigate the participating teams, to promote his team to the public, raise funds for the trip, programming robot, open to the public every Sunday 2-4P at the time of construction, updating its website with the latest news and photos, FIRST Robotics mentor other teams, and more. "Volunteers with the program, because they get to have as much fun as the students," said Mark Miller, Director of Information Systems rent.com, who coaches the team along with the self-employed business manager LeRoy Nelson, mentors and engineering, Northrop, robotics engineer Dr. Rick Wagner. main sponsors robotics Beach cities include Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Raytheon and leave com .. Beach Cities Robotics Team 294 Ryan Tupper welders, Ricardo Salgado Marygrace Barron and show its new welding helmet Hoodlum. Available in color and 200 dpi โ € "www.bcrobotics.org / hoodlum.jpg