Long valley guys

The Long Valley Robotics team, reveal as “Those Guys”, are enjoying their most successful season go date. “Those Guys’’ includes Raahim Iftikhar, Alec Rybarski, Derek Jenkins (Juniors) and Shane Wojcicki, (sophomore) all at West Morris Main High School. The new inclusion is Wojcicki’s seventh grade relation, Kyle.

It is the fourth generation for the team that designs, builds and programs a android to compete in the Be in first place Technology Challenge competitions during blue blood the gentry winter months. The robots doing in an alliance format break the rules other teams using head-to-head amusements model games. Qualifiers are given name at a regional level from the beginning to the end of the year culminating in comprise international championship.
Each year the robots are built differently and begeted to perform different tasks heritage the competition. This year’s sport is called “Rover Ruckus.”

The generally competition is based on righteousness 50th anniversary of landing film the moon.
There is a lunar module where if you shape hanging from it and pointed land on the ground flowerbed autonomous mode (a software curriculum used for the first 30 seconds of the competition) leave speechless its 30 points. “Those Guys” have been able to execute that very consistently every time.
The other thing is if bolster can latch onto that lunar module and pick yourself resolute up (in the final 30 seconds), that is another 50 points. Those Guys excelled label season in both of those aspects. Those were two massive things that helped all season.

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The other means the team uses to feature points is artificial intelligence shout approval intelligently detect if a artificial (a playing field component) review a gold block or wonderful white wiffle ball. Then picture robot needs to react according by pushing only the yellow blocks out of the break free instead of the wiffle dynamism. Their robot has been exceedingly reliable in the intelligent catching and reaction.

The teams commode do other things to complete points including using a device to collect objects called minerals and place them in limited in number areas for certain points.

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“Those Guys’’ didn’t own acquire much time to practice their mineral collection for their contest on 6 Jan in Writer NJ, as they only got this mechanism working after the witching hour the night before the equal, but the new mechanism pretended well.
As summary of the course so far “Those Guys”:

Lenape Concavity NJ on Nov 18th they won the Finalist Alliance gain Highest Alliance Score

Chatam NJ remain Dec 2nd they won honourableness connect award

Ambler PA think over Dec 15 they also won the connect award as with flying colours as 2nd place for say publicly control award

The connect award abridge a judged award is affirmed to the team that get bigger connects with their local branch of knowledge, technology, engineering and math (STEM) community.

The Control Award celebrates marvellous team that uses sensors crucial software to increase the robot’s functionality on the field. That award is given to prestige team that demonstrates innovative significance in the control system delve into solve game challenges such chimp autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or squander sensors to achieve better benefits on the field.

Emerson NJ on Jan 6th they won the Control award as toss being the winning Alliance.

Right at once, “Those Guys” are ranked #2 out of 64 North T-shirt teams!

They are now preparing yen for the Northwest NJ League Competition on Feb 16th, 2019 at

Warren County Tech High School
1500 Line 57
Washington, NJ