Congratulations to our Shockwave Robotics Team ~ Going to Worlds!
We would like to congratulate Coach Morgan Brown and our Grauer Shockwave Robotics Team for qualifying for the World Championships at this weekend’s Los Angeles Regional Tournament. There are only two ways to guarantee a spot in the World Championships: 1) Capture the 1st Place at a Regional Championship and 2) Win the Inspire Award, the highest award the competition has to offer. This year’s Shockwave team consisting of Alex Guy (’12), Cameron Shaddle (’12). Stephen Linam (’13), Keenan Jones (’13), Jacob Hertz (’14), Jacob Baizer (’15), and Craig Kimball (’16) won both awards on Saturday, a very rare accomplishment.
Each award only goes out to one team out of the entire tournament, which typically consists of 30-50 teams; LA had 38 teams alone. Three special commendations we would like to share:
- Alex Guy: built the drive train, machined a ton of custom parts, and did the vast majority of all the programming. Alex has logged over 100 hours of work outside of class in the first three months of the season!
- Stephen Linam: Stephen was the lead builder and driver for the robot. He practice hours on end to become adept and master the sensitive controls needed to navigate around the field, pick and flip crates, collect racquet balls and score, and many other critical functions of the robot.
- Jacob Baizer: built from scratch a superior magnetic sensor than the “standard” one provided by the competition – making us the only team at the competition that could score the special “magnetic” balls because of his outstanding contribution.
