ROBOTICS TEAM TO QUARTERFINALS SENIOR WINS PLAYWRITING COMPETITION

Robotics Team Performs Well at FRC

The Moonshots, Gilmour’s robotics team, and their robot, Triton, had a strong showing at the Buckeye Regional FIRST Robotics Competition, which challenges high school students with building a robot of a specific size, weight (under 125 pounds) and cost (under $5,000) in as little as six weeks. Each year, the robot must be able to complete a specific task. For this year’s competition, the robot scored points by gathering balls of specific colors and then scoring them in either a low goal or a high goal (worth more points because it was more difficult). Teams could also score points at the end of each game if their robot was able to hang from bars at progressively greater heights.

The team went 5-4 in the qualifying matches. For the final matches, the top eight finishers chose their alliance of teams and Gilmour was the ninth pick for the finals, which meant that the GA robot impressed one of the top teams with its consistency, speed and design. The robot had four main systems:

• a swerve drive (which allowed the wheels to pivot on the spot and made the robot more agile) • an intake system (allowing the robot to pick up the balls quickly and control two at a time) • a shooting system to score points with the balls (programmed with vision processing to allow the team to see the 8-ft-high goal and hit the target with 70+% accuracy) • a passive, wedge-shaped climb (which allowed the robot to lift off the ground).

The team lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual winners of the competition.

Congratulations to the following team members, who were led by mentors Mr. Matt Vanek and Mr. Dan Adiletta:

THE MOONSHOTS TEAM

Jonathan Berkovich ’22 Patrick Boje ’23 Vincent D’Angelo ’25 Victoria Dulzer ’22 Aidan Flynn ’23 Collin Grady ’23 Nicholas Hayek ’22 Matthew Johnson ’22 Cedric Li ’24 Alex Mylen ’23 Michael Piccirillo ’24 Dominic Schiciano ’22 Allison Schuh ’23 Desiree Smith ’22 Annie Solomon ’22 Vija Tessman ’22 Sarah Voss ’22 Justin Wen ’23

Senior’s Play Will Be Produced this Summer at Dobama Theater

During Mr. Matt Greenfield’s fall semester Creative Writing class, Sarah Voss ’22 wrote a play titled, Mercy. At the culmination of the semester, the class did staged readings of the plays and hers was quite powerful. The play was then submitted to the Marilyn Bianchi Kids’ Playwriting Festival and was selected as one of the competition winners. As a result, the Dobama Theater on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights will now present a professional production of Mercy the first weekend in June - June 3, 4 and 5!