For the robot building season this year, the engineering students had to think of a robot to build to compete with other schools and other robots. Their result is a machine by the name of Rocky.

Mr. Fitzgerald, engineering teacher, said this year’s assigned skill was sports-related. “The task was to shoot and score baskets, while also able to do pull ups,” he said.  In the fall, the engineering students had to come up with something in order to compete with the robots that other schools will make, and they weren’t sure what to do. It took a team effort, but there was one student who played a big part.

Mr. Fitzgerald said, “Jonas Kavaliauskus was a major role in the making of Rocky, but it was all a team effort in the end.” After some of the building, the team were finally able to make a prototype, but there were problems with it that they have to fix. “The prototype took a month to build,” Mr. Fitzgerald said. “But the final product took the whole season.” He added, “You think that a robot to make would be pretty expensive, but for a robot that could shoot baskets and do pull ups, it only cost “Five hundred to seven hundred and fifty dollars,” according to Fitzgerald.

The competition season ended earlier this school year, and next year’s robotics team will have a new task to accomplish.