By Anderson Prater
This year the Hinckley-Finlayson robotics team placed 31st in the First Robotics Northern Lights challenge and for the first time in program history advanced into the playoff round. Hinckley-Finlayson (group 5720) started 4 years ago and have gone to the First Robotics northern lights regional each year, This year the challenge was to built a robot that could pick up and move milk crate sized boxes to different areas. 5720 initially wanted to create a robot with an arm that would pick up and maneuver the boxes. This initial design failed and they ended up redesigning the robot with only two weeks left in the competition. This year the robotics team created a robot with a simple intake system that allowed them to specialize on moving the “power cubes” into the “vault” meaning that they would pick up the boxes and move the blocks to a small door. The ability to be so focused on one task allowed the Jag-o-botics team to be very successful and Mr. Ranger talked about how this allowed them to get into the playoff round saying, “it made other teams very interested in us because we did something they needed very well.” This got 5720 into an alliance and into the quarterfinals of the contest where they were eliminated. The team was not discouraged by the elimination, but instead they were excited to have made the playoffs and hope to be even more successful next year.
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