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The robotics team at Woodside and Carlmont high schools has triumphed again. In a reprise of a competition at the University of California at Davis last spring, Woodside/Carlmont’s robot took the top prize in a day-long, 30-team contest held Saturday, Oct. 13, at Woodside High.
The 2006-07 objective and the challenge Saturday required robots to grab 2-foot-diameter plastic inner-tubes and slip them on to elevated horizontal poles in the center of the game floor. Allied robots helped and competitors hindered this objective.
The Woodside/Carlmont team played without its 2006 seniors and with about a dozen new prospects, team spokeswoman and parent Laura Swire Rhodes told the Almanac. Its winning alliance included teams from San Jose’s Bellarmine Prep and The Athenian School from Danville.
Woodside/Carlmont never lost a qualifying match, Ms. Swire Rhodes said, adding: “We had a very reliable robot this last year.”
About 900 people attended, she said. A new season with a new objective begins in January.
