Monarch High School Robotics Team Receives Xerox Creativity Award

The Monarch High School FIRST Robotics team, aka the Shazbots, competed at the Colorado FIRST Regional Competition held at the University of Denver March 26-28. The veteran team of six years was awarded the Xerox Award for Creativity for their belt driven system which picked balls up off the floor and delivered them into a hopper. The robot, affectionately named Throckmorton, could then deliver the balls in threes directions by a pneumatically driven system.Students built engineering skills by working with professional from the local community. They broke up into work groups to focus on different parts of the robot design process including electronics, programming, mechanical design as well as project management, web design and business. The robot had to be built in six weeks.