The Four Cities Compact Programming, Design, and Robotics teamed up with the Engineering Design and Technology Compact and recently had one of their last projects of the year on May 9. The two compacts team up to make their own robots to complete the task of picking up a diving stick under the water while timing themselves, to do this the students went to the YMCA pool during 1st period. 

There were 8 groups that made a max of four and a minimum of three robots, the groups taking about a week to create their robots. 

“We just throw a little floaty thing in and go dive and go get it and you got to time yourself,” said Cody Caplinger, a Junior at Wadsworth High School and one of the students in the engineering compact.

The robots are put into the pool and a student would have to control it with an Xbox-like controller while trying to make the robot pick up a diving stick by using the front of the robot.

“We pretty much did everything from the cutting, to the wiring, to the soldering,” said Logan Bounce, also a Junior at Wadsworth High School and one of the students in the engineering compact.

The students had an example and instructions to follow for the creation of their robots but they started them from scratch.

This project was used as a way to transition from what they were learning into something different that they were not used to.