High School robot pilot reflects on Guam success in int’l competition

Pacific Daily News

Five Guam high school students recently returned from an international Olympics-style robotics competition in Mexico City, where they ranked 53 out of 168 country teams and won four out of eight games against worldwide competitors.

“We are a really young team compared to a lot of the other challengers. Most of our team was made up of incoming high school sophomores, and we were challenging a lot of older competitors, some of whom were college students,“ said Danny Morta, the pilot of the Team Guam robot and a senior at Simon Sanchez High School.

Big challenge of fundraising

Morta joined four other students from Okkodo High School and Simon Sanchez High School. The team prepared throughout the summer for the event. While the pilot and aspiring engineer is happy with the team’s accomplishment, he said more could have been done in preparation, with local support.

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