Red River ALC robotics team wins video award
November 7, 2013
The Red River Area Learning Center robotics team took first
place for YouTube video and third place for team mascot at the Nov. 1-2 Bison
BEST Robotics competition sponsored by NDSU’s College of Engineering and Architecture. Additionally, the team’s engineering notebook earned
them a spot in the wild card play-off round.
Team members are Solen Ahmet, Evelyn Serrata, Jordan
TwoHearts, Jose Zamarron, Muhamed Zuka, Moses Munoz, Anahi Serrata, Gilbert
Munoz and Zoie Gartner. Team advisors are Red River ALC teachers Aura Lee
Mohror and Wylie Wisnewski, and mentors are Glen Meyer and Kirk Ogden,
engineers from John Deere.
BEST, which stands for “Boosting Engineering, Science and
Technology,” is designed to inspire students to consider careers in those
fields. This year, the remote-controlled robot needed to build a CPU over
the course of three fabrication stages. The robots needed to collect
transistors (represented by dowels in the competition) to make gates, put gates
together to create integrated circuits, and build their CPU.
Besides the robotics competition, the student teams
compete for the BEST Awards which include a project engineering notebook
documenting all work they’ve completed, a marketing presentation, the team
exhibit and interview, and spirit and sportsmanship.
View the video at http://youtu.be/Un3JEEfBPiQ.
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