Kids & Family
Crystal Lake Robotics Team Headed to World Championship
Local high school robotics team earns advancement to the FIRST Championship international robotics competition.
FIRST Tech Challenge team 6007, Eighty-Nine Degrees, a robotics team made up of high school sophomores from Crystal Lake, won the Think Award at the Illinois State Championship and is advancing to the world championship. Eighty-Nine Degrees will compete with 159 other teams from around the world at the FIRST Championship which takes place April 24-27 in Detroit, Michigan.
The team earned their bid to the FIRST Championship by winning the Think Award which is given to the team the judges feel best reflects their engineering design journey in their engineering notebook throughout the build season. Teams must describe the science and mathematics of the robot design including details pertaining to strategies, designs, re-designs, failures, and successes. For more information about Eighty-Nine Degrees or to make tax deductible donations, please visit http://clrobotics.org/ftc/89degrees/.
First Tech Challenge is one of a family of programs offered by FIRST that is designed to inspire youth to pursue education and career opportunities in STEM while building self-confidence, knowledge and life skills. Students design, build, and program robots to compete in the season’s game challenge, Rover Ruckus. For more information about FTC or other programs offered by FIRST, go to http://www.firstinspires.org/.
