Robotics team prepares for upcoming competition

Kaylee Watters, Reporter and Editor

The Monroe High School robotics team will be going to its first competition of the school year this month on Mar. 9, 10 and 11 at Ann Arbor High School.

The robotics team is made up of four groups: the Publications team, the Build team, the Electrical team and the Programming team. There are multiple people in every group who make up the entire robotics team.

“I’m the electronic; I connect the wires to the battery and more or less make the brain of the robot,” sophomore and club secretary Peyton Moran said.

At this competition, the goal is for the team to be able to have the robot climb a four-foot rope.

“It’s really just like a family; we’re basically together every day even when we don’t have robotics,” Moran said.

The team has a practice robot that they built earlier in the year, which they use to practice driving skills of the robot. One can find the team out in front of the auditorium on any given Saturday morning with the practice robot. Right now, the team is required to bag the robot until a week before the competition. The members will then have seven days to practice with the robot and fix anything they need to before they go to the competition.

“The club is advancing greatly in our progress on the robot,” junior and club president Gage Solomon said.

The robotics team is made up of all students, and they create the entire robot by themselves.

“Right now, we are fixing difficulties with our winch mechanism,” Solomon said.

The team will be having a home competition sometime later this school year.