Danbury High Students Earn First Place in Regional Robotics Contest

A team of six Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP) students from Danbury High School won first place in a regional Rube Goldberg Machine Competition on March 22 and have now qualified for the national contest.

Rube Goldberg was an American sculptor, author and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his inventions.

This year’s theme was to “Erase A Chalkboard,” which the DHS team not only did, but also applied an aesthetics theme that told a story. While a Nerf gun shot a flap, which hit a ball, which set off dominos, and so on and so on until a board and dowel collapsed thus moving the eraser to wipe the board, the “Avengers” played out their superhero story.

“The components of our machine acted out the story,” DHS team member Sameena Shaffeeullah said in a news release. “Our machine was reliable on every task where many other machines weren’t as consistent and failed.”

The DHS team competed against 10 other teams in the region.

CPEP is an award-winning, non-for-profit organization that addresses the growing need to identify, inspire and ignite the desire of underrepresented youths to pursue careers in engineering. This year’s CPEP was led by team adviser Linda Kimble.

The national competition will be held in mid-April in Wisconsin.

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