Salmon River Robotics Team

March 20, 2012-The Salmon River High School Robotics team 229 “Division By Zero”, a FIRST Robotics Competition team, recently held a McFun Night Fundraiser at the Malone McDonald’s to help team members offset travel costs to their upcoming competition in Hartford, CT. 229 recently competed at the Finger Lakes Regional at RIT in Rochester NY. The team, seeded 4th at the end of two days of qualifying matches, ended up in 6th place out of 42 teams from all over New England and Canada.

FRC is an international program/competition that helps students discover and develop an excitement for science, technology, engineering and math and the rewards that careers in the STEM areas can bring. Six weeks each winter, students design, build, and program a robot to compete in the annual challenge. Students are given game rules, regulations, a kit of parts, a budget, and size and weight limits to adhere to. This is a real-life engineering challenge that encourages students to use the advanced math, physics, technology and engineering concepts they learn in their various high school classes.