Extended Learning
Robotics
Pymble Pride 6510 competed in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) South Pacific Regional on Saturday 8 May and Sunday 9 May. This was the first FRC in-person event in more than two years.
The girls have spent the past few months designing a robot to compete on a field the size of a basketball court that climbs and shoots projectiles. The design has complex sub-systems, which include the use of a vision system to aim and guide the robot towards its multiple targets. An impressive, technical intake collects foam balls from the field and delivers them to a spindle, which in turn feeds the balls into a shooter that fires the balls with remarkable speed. The robot’s climber is an elegant design with a hook that rises on the end of a periscope, and in turn lifts the 53-kilogram mass of the robot. Pymble girls’ robot design complexity was admired by competitors, however with complexity comes technical issues.
With a few errors on the competition day, the girls stayed positive and showed resilience with determination to make all parts of the robot work in harmony.
The girls left with a sense of achievement and received an award in recognition of their spirit and sportsmanship. Congratulations to Pymble Pride 6510 for their time, skills and attitude this season. We extend a thank you to our mentors Asaph Mross-Becker, Penelope Blake, Jessie Lum and Eric Zhu for their tireless efforts, and acknowledge our growing parent community who are helping this season with field construction, mentoring, volunteering and many technical elements.
