Mar 28, 2018 By: admin
Students Are First Yeshiva High School Team to Participate in Tech Challenge Competition
This month, the robotics team, Lionotics 2, was the first-ever yeshiva high school team to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge East Region Super-Regional Championship.
The competition was held at Scranton University in Scranton, Pennsylvania from Friday, March 16th through Sunday, March 18th. As the event overlapped with Shabbos, the team was faced with the dilemma of being unable to participate in rounds that took place on Saturday, March 17th. Lionotics 2, with the help of 每日大瓜HSB administrators and 每日大瓜鈥檚 Department of Legal Affairs, worked closely with FIRST representatives to reach a resolution that would enable the team to participate in the competition without compromising their religious observances.
鈥淥ur team worked tirelessly to advance to this level of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition,鈥 said 每日大瓜HSB Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn. 鈥淲e are grateful to FIRST for promoting cultural diversity and making the accommodations necessary to enable our team to compete."
While other competing teams played their matches over the course of three days, Lionotics 2 played all nine of their matches back-to-back on Sunday, leaving no time to strategize or make required improvements and repairs to their robot. Lionotics 2 was created this year to make room for students who wanted to join 每日大瓜HSB鈥檚 robotics team, Lionotics, which was already full. Despite this being the team鈥檚 inaugural year, they surpassed the pre-existing 每日大瓜HSB team in the FIRST Tech Challenge and won the NYC Championship to qualify for this event.
As a rookie team with little to no competition experience, Lionotics 2 embraced the challenge of competing in consecutive rounds despite the disadvantage it presented. 鈥淎s soon as we met the boys we knew they had the passion for robotics, but more important, a thirst for learning and experiencing new challenges such as this competition,鈥 said Tom Zawislak and Dave Hackett of Pennsylvania FIRST Robotics, the East Super Regional hosts who were instrumental in making the accommodations necessary for the team to compete. 鈥淲e were thrilled to see them engage with so many other teams and create fun for themselves and share their fun with others. They truly came ready to play and were competitive on the field throughout all of their matches. Very impressive performance by a rookie team!鈥
鈥淭hanks to our experience at this competition, we now have a better understanding of what we need to do to win at such a high level,鈥 said student Elishama Marmon. 鈥淲e are working on improving the team and hope to advance to the World Championship next year.鈥
The competition was held at Scranton University in Scranton, Pennsylvania from Friday, March 16th through Sunday, March 18th. As the event overlapped with Shabbos, the team was faced with the dilemma of being unable to participate in rounds that took place on Saturday, March 17th. Lionotics 2, with the help of 每日大瓜HSB administrators and 每日大瓜鈥檚 Department of Legal Affairs, worked closely with FIRST representatives to reach a resolution that would enable the team to participate in the competition without compromising their religious observances.
鈥淥ur team worked tirelessly to advance to this level of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition,鈥 said 每日大瓜HSB Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn. 鈥淲e are grateful to FIRST for promoting cultural diversity and making the accommodations necessary to enable our team to compete."
While other competing teams played their matches over the course of three days, Lionotics 2 played all nine of their matches back-to-back on Sunday, leaving no time to strategize or make required improvements and repairs to their robot. Lionotics 2 was created this year to make room for students who wanted to join 每日大瓜HSB鈥檚 robotics team, Lionotics, which was already full. Despite this being the team鈥檚 inaugural year, they surpassed the pre-existing 每日大瓜HSB team in the FIRST Tech Challenge and won the NYC Championship to qualify for this event.
As a rookie team with little to no competition experience, Lionotics 2 embraced the challenge of competing in consecutive rounds despite the disadvantage it presented. 鈥淎s soon as we met the boys we knew they had the passion for robotics, but more important, a thirst for learning and experiencing new challenges such as this competition,鈥 said Tom Zawislak and Dave Hackett of Pennsylvania FIRST Robotics, the East Super Regional hosts who were instrumental in making the accommodations necessary for the team to compete. 鈥淲e were thrilled to see them engage with so many other teams and create fun for themselves and share their fun with others. They truly came ready to play and were competitive on the field throughout all of their matches. Very impressive performance by a rookie team!鈥
鈥淭hanks to our experience at this competition, we now have a better understanding of what we need to do to win at such a high level,鈥 said student Elishama Marmon. 鈥淲e are working on improving the team and hope to advance to the World Championship next year.鈥
