Grosse Ile Grand for April 2022

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GROSSE ILE GRAND

Wired Devils have great 2022 competition season

What has been a great season for the Grosse Ile High School Robotics Team got a whole lot sweeter on March 19 when the Wired Devils placed 5th out of 37 teams at the district competition hosted by Churchill High School in Livonia.

The team also earned the distinction of scoring the most points for best climbing robot.

The international high school robotics competition organization – FIRST – pairs high school students with adult mentors to collaborate, design, and build a competition robot. Each January a new and challenging robot game is introduced at the international kickoff.

For six days a week, four hours a day since the beginning of the year, the Wired Devils applied the knowledge they had acquired in math and science classes.

With guidance from team mentors, the students followed the engineering process of brainstorm, design, prototype, build and test.

The students used extensive tools, equipment, hardware, software, electrical and mechanical parts. They designed and built an imposing precision robot for competition.

The 2022 robot challenge is to score balls in the upper and lower hoppers and to climb, then traverse a series of overhead rungs in various heights.

Each game is played in 2-1/2 minutes. Each robot is pre-programed for the first 15 seconds to score without guidance from drivers. The remaining 2-1/4 minutes, the drivers control their robot to score points.

Our Livonia District Competition was a twoday event where each of the 37 teams played in 12 matches to qualify for the 24 spots in the quarterfinals.

The 24 teams then qualify for the 12 spots in the semifinals. The 12 teams then compete for the top 8 spots.

The Wired Devils completed the semifinals and placed 5th out of the 37 teams, as well as winning the distinction of scoring most points for best climbing robot.

The 35-member team of Wired Devils belongs to three major groups, Robot, Outreach and Spirit.

• The Robot group is the largest, dealing with everything robot related.

• The Outreach group concentrates on community service.

The team plans to resurrect Safety Town this summer. Each year Robot Camp is provided for the three Meridian Robotics Teams. We also mentor the Meridian Robotics Teams throughout their competition season.

The team promotes STEM awareness at their Island Fest booth and parade each year. Wired Devils also promotes STEAM awareness at STEAM Night at Meridian and Parklane schools each year.

• The Spirit group designs and provides spiritwear for the team, including hats, shirts, stickers, buttons.

The Wired Devils recently competed in a district event hosted by Woodhaven High School on April 9 and the team has its sights set on the state

competition and then, the world championship.

The Wired Devils are Abigail Gu, Ahmed Kanso, Seth Perko, Clare Stefan, Sorine Andronic, Kelly Antosiewicz, Delaney Ardnt, Aidan Asher, Isabella Bodea, Sophie Calcut, Sarah Chao, Claire Coleman, Norton Coulibaly, Briggs Damman, Serafim Dionyssopolus, Noelle Gall. Joey Gall, Cole Gilbert. Luke Hargrove, Daniel Heilman, Christopher Heim, Lauren Hinzmann, Alison Kisiel, Lucie Neilson, Ella Normindin, Eva Ottenbreit, Avi Patel, Manasavi Patel, Claire Ratliff, Fiona Ratliff, Jacob Vasicek, Pranav Vaya, Urvi Vaya, Ollie Polk and Arnav Verma.

Wired Devils is sponsored by Bosch, BASF, Ford, Kiwanis, and DADARA.

See the 2022 game animation, google “2022 FRC game.”