Perry Robotics Club Ready for Challenges Ahead
The Perry Robotics Club is heading to Oklahoma City this weekend tom compete in the 2019 Botball Multi-State Regional Competition. On Mar. 6, four teams composed of nearly 60 students competed in the club’s annual Mock Botball Tournament, to fully prepare for their upcoming competition.
On Mar. 9, students will compete against competitors in a multi-state region ranging from middle school to high school. Botball is a challenging autonomous robotics competition. Students have had 8-9 weeks to design, build, program, and test up to two 100% autonomous robots. The robots will compete head to head in a non-violent robotics event. Additionally, the students must prepare a presentation to perform in front of a pair of professional engineers at the event.
Learning Coding in Different Programming Languages
The students program their robots using C and Python, which are computer languages in use every day in the engineering world and beyond. The DeWitt Perry Middle School Robotics Club is 18 years old, and is one of the longest ongoing and most successful robotics clubs in the country. The club is supported by the CFB Advanced Academics Department and the CFB Association for the Gifted and Talented.