End of Season

There will be no robotics this week, May 19 +20.

Final meeting: competition debrief and demolition party, Tuesday May 27.

Please bring snacks, desserts, or drinks to share, pizza will be provided. 

QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ROBOTICS CHALLENGE

Central

All six Central teams performed well on Saturday. They had a good showing at the table and were judged to be excellent teammates and innovative thinkers. 

We had some interesting awards and are looking forward to next year!

Thanks to the Hsu family for donating a Spike Prime robot brain for the competition cycle.

Central Challenge

Pineapple Pals dominated with a table score of 210 but there was an excellent performance from The Team with 165.  The other teams did well completing several missions and they are all showing great potential for the spring.

Revere Qualifier

A great game was had by all, and it was exciting until the end. Our three teams competed well at the table and scored highly. Smurf Cats were most consistent and ended 6th, Civil War were 12th and CyberRAMS 14th, out of 40 teams. The programming was clever, the planning and design excellent. The judging was done differently this year and the teams did not perform well in that part of the competition. So despite one of our teams being in the top ten, the other aspects of the competition meant that they did not secure a spot in the next round. It was a good learning opportunity and for that team at least, they can try again next year. 

Lego Robotics at Central Middle School 

What we do at Central: 

• coaches are Mrs Mastico and Mrs Whigham

• we have 12 robot brains to work with

• students form teams of 2-10 members

• we work towards the FLL challenge of the season

• three teams compete in the regional qualifier usually at Revere High School, early December

• the other teams compete in an in-school challenge

What is the Robotics program at Central?

Lego Robotics is run by Ms. Mastico and Mrs Whigham. It is mostly focused on the First Lego League robotics competition. A table has missions to be completed,  the students build and program the robot that will do as many of those tasks as possible. 

Fall robotics

The year begins with the international First Lego League competition. Students are organized into teams of two to ten people, and develop a robot to do this year’s tasks. This year we have been promised three teams to be entered into the official regional FLL qualifier and they move on to State if successful. The three official teams are also required to complete a research and design project that complements the theme of the challenge.

After the qualifier, there will be an in-house competition to see who built the best one. Following this there will be a challenge arranged by your coaches, one year was burglar alarms, the next was Sumo bots. This challenge is only at Central and is informal. 

Spring robotics

Later in the spring, Quincy hosts the President's Cup, a citywide competition between the middle schools. This is usually a past FLL challenge and consists of all the aspects of an official competition.

Signing up

It is a very competitive program, especially at the beginning while everyone is figuring out what they want to do (there are a lot of options at Central).  There are a lot of students and not a lot of places in the club. In order to manage the requests, students must stop by the library before or after school, or at SSB in order to get a permission slip.