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Omega sponsors high school FIRST robotics team

May 11, 2017
The Sim-City robotics team from Simsbury High School ranked 19 out of the 68 teams in their division at the FIRST Robotics National Championship in St. Louis, Missouri
Omega Engineering sponsored the Sim-City robotics team from Simsbury High School. The team ranked 19th out of the 68 teams in their division at the four-day FIRST Robotics National Championship in St. Louis, Missouri from Apr. 26 - 29.

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) runs the largest and oldest student robotics competition in the world. With 30,000 students from 39 countries competing this year, 2,400 volunteers helped 1,394 teams show off their robots to more than 65,000 attendees.

"Sim-City finished 19th out of 68 teams in their division after losing in the semifinals because their Alliance Captain robot suffered a drivetrain malfunction, forcing them to rely on a substitute alliance partner they hadn’t worked with before," said Mike Bonchick, a consultant for Omega whose son was on the Sim-City robotics team.

FIRST teams are high school students that compete under strict rules, limited resources, and an intense six-week time limit, where teams are challenged to work together to raise funds and build and program industrial-size robots.Ā Student teams work with STEM professionals to coach them through the build and competition. Millions of dollars of scholarships are also available to participants.

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