Over Spring break the DeWitt Perry Robotics club competed in the Oklahoma Botball Regional. Three teams from DeWitt Perry competed at the competition against high schools, college prep schools, home schools, vocational and technical schools and charter and magnet schools. The overall competition is broken into three sub-competition, seeding, double elimination and a documentation presentation and an alliance competition where teams are randomly paired up and have to work together.
Botball is an extremely challenging robotics contest designed for middle and high school students. Students must design, program and test up to two robots to play an exceptionally challenging game. Moving and manipulating objects on the 8 foot X 8 foot game board scores points. Students build and program robots using a professional computer programming language called C. An advanced controller directs the robots with sensors, motors and even robotic-color vision. The robots are not remote-controlled but instead are completely autonomous; the students must program them to react intelligently to the changing world around them.
DeWitt Perry won the following awards:
3rd Place in Seeding (only middle school to win a seeding award)
Judges choice for excellence in software engineering
Judges choice for excellence in use of sensors
1st Place in the alliance completion
5th place overall out of 51 teams.
The Robotics Club is coached by Mr. David Culp.