Glenwood robotics team third at YSU competition

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Neighbors | Submitted.The Boardman Glenwood Middle School robotics team competed in the 2011 Northeast Ohio Robotics Education Program Competition at Youngstown State University March 15 and earned a third-place finish.

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Neighbors | Submitted.Boardman Glenwood's robotics team earned first place in the robot category at the 2011 Northeast Ohio Robotics Education Program Competition at Youngstown State University March 15..Overall, the team finished in third place.

The Boardman Glenwood Middle School robotics team recently took home an overall third-place prize at the 2011 Northeast Ohio Robotics Education Program Competition, held at Youngstown State University on March 15.

The competition invited middle school and high school students from the all over northeast Ohio to design and build a robot to compete in two separate games of skill.

The games involved navigating the course to release ping-pong balls from an apparatus and then transporting the balls to a designated area.

The team placed in three of the five possible scoring areas during the competition. They took third place for their technical journal and for the game two competition.

The presentation of Glenwood’s robot earned them first place in this category.

These individual accomplishments in these areas earned the team a third place finish overall at the competition.

The team included Glenwood students Jessica Fox, Alex Hardin, Luke Carabbia, Nick Long, Tristan Meyers, Brandon Rigelsky, Matt Stark and Nick Tancabel. The team was responsible for designing and building a robot, as well as keeping journal entries about their progress, researching a specified topic and giving a presentation to judges on all aspects of their journey leading up to the robotics competition.

This year’s research theme was “The Math and Science of Sports.”

This was Glenwood’s first Robotics competition team in five years. First-time advisers to the team, Gina Abruzzino and Scott Lenhart, were a little nervous, but excited that the competition had finally arrived.