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Tyl Robotics Team Off to World Championship in California!
Montville businesses (and a number of families in town) have stepped up to help get the team to Cali!
Written and reported by Ellyn Santiago.
It takes an extremely talented middle school robotics team to build an awesome award-wining robot. But it takes a community to help send that team to the world championship 3,000 miles away. California here they come!
The Leonard J. Tyl Middle School Robotic Team is headed to the 2012-2013 VEX Robotics World Championship in Anaheim to compete with top robotics teams from around the world on Wednesday April 17.
The competition is being held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California through Saturday April 20.
The Tyl team will play Sack Attack against the best of the best; top teams from over 230 VEX Robotics Competition tournaments that occurred in cities and towns cross the globe.
According to Dan Petersen, technology teacher and Robotics Club Advisor at Tyl, the team earned the right to compete I the world championship after wining the Excellence Award at the 2nd annual Mansfield Middle School Competition. Petersen explained the award is given “the highest in the VEX Robotics Competition.”
“The recipient of this award is a team that exemplifies overall excellence in building a well-rounded VEX robotics program. This team excels in many areas and is a shining example of dedication, devotion, hard work and teamwork,” Petersen explained in an email to Patch.
“A strong contender in numerous award categories, this team deserves to be recognized for their accomplishments building a robot and in building a ‘team’ committed to quality in everything they do.”
The team’s robot, seen in the attached video, is the one that will be competing and the very same one the team has been “developing since October,” Petersen said.
But it’s not cheap to get to California with a team of middle schoolers and a robot!
Peteresen explained that while the district pays for the advisor (Petersen) money had to be raised to cover the whole trip for the team. And that was accomplished "through Tyl's dress down fund and with the help of local sponsors.”
So make sure to say thanks to Beaver Electric, Bonner Electric, the Lions Club of Montville, the Montville Leos Club, Nelson Building and Construction, Uncasville Oil and a number of Montville families the Petersen family, Emily Holmgren, the Heller family, the Nelson family and the Huang family.
Congratulations Tyl Robotics Team and win or not at the world championship, you’re already winners!
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