WW-P will send two FIRST Robotics teams to the FIRST World Championships in St. Louis from April 22 to 25.
Team 1923, the MidKnight Inventors of High Schools North and South, won the Engineering Inspiration Award, the second highest honor bestowed at FIRST competitions, at the Tech Valley Regionals at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on March 19 to 21. The team’s robot, MKI:X, also had an impressive performance and was drafted into the seventh seeded alliance, where it finished the competition as a semifinalist.
The MidKnight Inventors’ founder and mentor, Libby Kamen, also was honored with the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, given to one mentor at each competition in recognition of their ability to lead, inspire, and empower.
Team W.A.G.S. (We Are Girl Scouts) also advanced to the world championship after earning the second place Motivate Award at the FTC East Super-Regional in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March 21.
Now in its fifth season as a team and its third competing at the high school level, W.A.G.S. is coached by Girl Scout volunteers Jan Cardinale, Helen Rancan and Andrea Mandel.
The mission of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics is to inspire young people to become science and technology leaders by engaging them in a mentor-based program that builds science, engineering, math, and technology skills. FIRST teams must meet a unique challenge each year by creating their own robot to compete with and against other teams.
