{"id":66403,"date":"2016-03-17T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66403"},"modified":"2016-03-17T07:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T11:24:42","slug":"suny-poly-first-robotics-team-advances-to-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66403","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Poly FIRST Robotics Team Advances to World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Team of local students and SUNY Poly mentors selected among top 30 in the world.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utica \u2013SUNY Polytechnic Institute today announced its FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team<\/p>\n

bested 65 other competitors at New York City\u2019s Javitz Center this past weekend to advance to the<\/p>\n

world championships.\u00a0 In addition to its victory, the team is also celebrating its recognition as one of<\/p>\n

the top 30 in the world in the book \u201cFirst Robots: Behind the Design.\u201d\u00a0 The team, known as The<\/p>\n

Second Mouse or FRC 5030, was selected out of an international field of 3,000 teams for inclusion\u00a0in the book featuring what the authors call, \u201cexemplars: a collection of the finest designs and teams\u00a0in the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an exciting time for this team of young innovators and what an incredible message it sends regarding the caliber of New York State\u2019s students and future workforce,\u201d\u00a0said Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, President and CEO of SUNY Polytechnic Institute. “Gov. Andrew\u00a0Cuomo\u2019s commitment to education, particularly STEM studies, is clearly taking root as more and\u00a0more young people are aspiring to high tech careers supporting the state\u2019s 21st\u00a0century economy.<\/p>\n

“On behalf of the entire\u00a0SUNY Poly community, I would like to congratulate The Second Mouse team on being among the\u00a0best in the world. They are an excellent example of how SUNY Poly\u2019s world class staff, resources, and\u00a0expertise are helping students unlock limitless potential and I wish them the best of luck in the upcoming world championships.\u201c<\/p>\n

In \u201cFirst Robots: Behind the Design,\u201d FIRST founder Dean Kamen writes, \u201cThese examples illustrate\u00a0some of the leading technical developments made by FIRST teams during the 2015 FRC season.\u00a0Each chapter presents case studies from FIRST teams who excelled in aspects of the design,\u00a0manufacturing and control of their FIRST robot.\u201d<\/p>\n

After its weekend victory at the Javitz Center, the Second Mouse, made up of SUNY Poly undergraduate students working as mentors to high school students from Whitesboro, New Hartford, and Utica, is now preparing for\u00a0the FRC World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri where it will face off against hundreds of international competitors.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s journey started during\u00a0mid-winter break, when team members worked tirelessly in the basement of Donovan Hall on the\u00a0SUNY Poly Utica site planning, designing, crafting, and programming a robot to help the team\u00a0conquer this year\u2019s challenge. Students used aluminum, steel, rubber, plastic, and numerous 3D-printed parts to create a robot capable of overcoming numerous terrain obstacles while shooting a\u00a0foam ball \u2018boulder\u2019 into a castle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere at SUNY Poly, we take great pride in the innovative, hands-on learning that our students\u00a0receive,\u201d said Dr. Robert Geer, Senior Vice President and COO of SUNY Poly. \u201cThese competitions\u00a0build real-life experience solving real-life problems – exactly the skills that are driving the 21st-Century innovation economy. I can’t think of better experiences for these young STEM students and\u00a0am happy that SUNY Poly can play such an important role.\u00a0 We are very proud of their\u00a0accomplishments and wish them luck as they head to the final round.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that students enjoy experiential learning and that it is highly effective,\u201d said Dr. William Durgin, Provost for SUNY Polytechnic Institute.\u00a0 \u201cReal-world experiences like this are especially suited to students predisposed to STEM disciplines as emphasized by FIRST robotics programs.\u00a0SUNY Poly is committed to STEM education, as are its students and the community because hands-on learning creates the innovators of\u00a0tomorrow.\u00a0 The Second Mouse is living proof of that.\u00a0Congratulations and good luck to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we set some very ambitious goals for ourselves,\u201d said Ben Weiss, SUNY Poly mentor and a founding member of The Second Mouse FRC\u00a0team. “We established an aggressive timeline for completing our robot and not only succeeded but built one well enough to take us to the world\u00a0championships.This is my seventh year on an FRC team and I feel like we\u2019ve worked really hard and\u00a0have grown and improved our skills. We\u2019re thrilled to have our efforts recognized by the authors of\u00a0the book. What I enjoy most about our team is seeing the high school team members having fun while learning. I had a great experience doing FRC in high school and would like to re-create that type of\u00a0great experience for current high school students.\u201d<\/p>\n

“This is my seventh year on an FRC team and I feel like we\u2019ve worked really hard and\u00a0have grown and improved our skills. We\u2019re thrilled to have our efforts recognized by the authors of\u00a0the book. What I enjoy most about our team is seeing the high school team members having fun while learning. I had a great experience doing FRC in high school and would like to re-create that type of\u00a0great experience for current high school students.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I had a great experience doing FRC in high school and would like to re-create that type of\u00a0great experience for current high school students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou learn a lot about manufacturing components, designing, programming, how the whole system\u00a0will fit together, the electrical system, and the list goes one,\u201d said Nick Kopyt, a senior at New\u00a0Hartford High School and member of The Second Mouse team. \u201cI\u2019ve also learned a lot about\u00a0leadership qualities and having to work with others. It\u2019s something that will be used in the real\u00a0world and you really get a lot of that experience here.\u00a0 I\u2019m really proud of the work our team has\u00a0done this year and am looking forward to the championship round.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Second Mouse has already taken home awards for Highest Rookie Seed and Rookie All Star at\u00a02014\u2019s NY Tech Valley Regional as well as the Industrial Design Award at the 2015 NY Tech Valley\u00a0Regional.<\/p>\n

The world championships are scheduled for\u00a0April 27 through 30\u00a0in St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utica \u2013SUNY Polytechnic Institute today announced its FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team bested 65 other competitors at New York City\u2019s Javitz Center this past weekend to advance to the world championships.\u00a0 In addition to its victory, the team is also celebrating its recognition as one of the top 30 in the world in the book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22341,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2649.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hh1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}