It’s robotics time at Cook County High School! Team Ice Storm is ready for the March 6 – 8 competition at the DECC in Duluth. (L-R, front) Klara McNeally, Shae Morawitz, Nate Carlson. (L-R, back) Jacob Carr, Cedar Adams, Ben Kurtz, Brandon Bockovich. (Not pictured: Julia Larsen, Bergen Soland, Liam Abelon.)
It’s Robotics time at Cook County High School. The local robotics team— Ice Storm—has been busy building and programming this year’s robot. By press time the robot—named “Potato Salad”—will be completed and boxed up for the trip to the DECC in Duluth for the March 6 – 8 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competition. There, Ice Storm will face nearly 100 high school robotics teams.
CCHS students Klara McNeally, Shae Morawitz, Nate Carlson, Jacob Carr, Cedar Adams, Ben Kurtz, Brandon Bockovich, Julia Larsen, Bergen Soland, and Liam Abelon have been working on the construction of their robot from the FIRST “kit of parts,” several heavy containers and totes filled with miscellaneous parts. Using those parts and others recycled from robots from previous years, the 2014 team has created a robot that can pick up a big exercise ball and throw it through a 3-foot wide target about seven feet in the air.
The Robotics team is coached by Cook County High School Industrial Arts teacher Sam West.
If you’re making a trip to Duluth and would like to watch the FIRST competition, practice rounds are 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Thursday, March 6. Opening ceremonies are 8:30 a.m. on Friday, March 7 and qualifying matches are 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 – 5:45 p.m. The excitement continues on March 8 with qualifying matches from 9 a.m. – 12:15. Final rounds are 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
If you would like more information about the FIRST program and how you can support the Cook County Robotics team, contact Sam West at (218) 387-2273.
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