22 أغسطس Moco’s ‘Team USA’ takes accolades in robotics competition and learns a little
Representing the United States, the eight-member team of high-school robotics experts who call themselves Wizards.exe, left the FIRST Global Challenge 2018 robotics competition in Mexico on Sunday, with three large medals and a new appreciation for people who live in countries they previously knew little about.
Team USA, which consisted totally of students from Montgomery County, along with their “G-Wiz” robot, took Gold in engineering design and fundraising and Silver for winning eight out of eight of their qualifying matches, only slightly beaten out in points by Romania.
FIRST Global, a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)-focused international nonprofit, gathered competitors from more than 160 countries, Aug. 15 through Aug. 18, at Mexico City’s Arena Ciudad de Mexico to solve energy-efficiency problems using robots created by student participants.
“It’s a very cool and unique experience,” said Ishaan Oberoi, who soon will start 11th grade at Richard Montgomery High School.
“It was basically a Super Bowl,” said Arjun Oberoi, who is about to start ninth grade at Montgomery Blair High School.
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