The Shelton High School Robotics team #230, The Gaelhawks, has qualified to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition World Championship and will travel to St. Louis, MO from April 22 to April 25.
The team, with their Robot Talon XVI, will compete in the 2015 FRC Challenge “Recycle Rush!” with over 600 teams from across the globe.
This year’s team qualified with New England District wins at competitions in Waterbury, Hartford, and Dartmouth, MA.
The team was also selected as the Hartford, CT Chairman’s Award winning program. Details about this year’s competition can be found at the FIRST website: http://www3.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/2015-game
The team is scheduled to compete on the Curie Division field and fans can watch the live webcast at the following link: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/first/st-louis-2015/
The Gaelhawks are scheduled to compete in the following matches on Thursday 4/23: #5, #16, #36, #47, #55 and in matches Friday 4/24: #66, #77, #98, #109, #116. Matches are scheduled to begin at 8:30 AM each day. Matches on Saturday 4/25 are TBD.
The team is supported by the Shelton Board of Education, UTC Sikorsky, OEM Controls, Boeing, ATT Connecticut, Intuitive Surgical, Landmark Transportation, IEEE, Cooper Surgical, and Ametek/Hayden Kirk.
Patrons who wish to donate to the team to help offset the transportation and robot construction costs are asked to participate in the New Haven Community Foundation Great Give 2015 on May 5th & 6th.
This is the team’s annual 36 hour Online giving event where dollars are matched by the Valley Community Foundation and additional incentive prizes are available for the Robotics team. More information about the Great Give 2015 can be found at: http://www.valleyfoundation.org/NewsEvents/NewsEvents/NewsArticle/tabid/205/smid/691/ArticleID/124/reftab/216/Default.aspx
More information about the team and videos of their season so far can be found on the team YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Gaelhawks
The Shelton High School Robotics team is in its 17th year of operation and continues to promote the team mission of “advancing the excitement of science and technology in our school and community.”
