The Rocky Point High School Robotics Club recently competed in the FIRST Tech Challenge Long Island Qualifier #2, and Team Tesseract won the Design Award!
Touted as industrial design at its best by FIRST, the award recognizes design elements of the robot that are both functional and aesthetic. The Design Award is presented to teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution. These design elements could simplify the robot’s appearance by giving it a clean look, be decorative in nature or otherwise express the creativity of the team. The winning design should not compromise the practical operation of the robot but complement its purpose.
According to coach Mark Moorman, above all other robots, the judges only had eyes for this machine.
“As we all know, this year presented many challenges, to say the least,” said Mr. Moorman, who coaches along with assistant coach Mrs. Dorothy Burns. “After spending the first four months fully virtual, the team rose to overcome many obstacles,” he said, including assembling their robot virtually.
Congratulations to students Jacob Bazata, James Carmody, Eve Hald, Nick O’Shea, Leila Riedl, Misha Zaslavsky and Sasha Zaslavsky for understanding the value of hard work, innovation and working as a team.