The Ligerbots are excited to be participating in a May competition: “Battle Cry” at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on May 21 and 22. This will put our robot up against some of the most successful teams in the Northeast.

We were pleased to be awarded the Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation at both the BU District Competition and at the Hartford New England District Championship in recognition of the precision capabilities of our robot. We ranked 45th out of 181 robots in the district and our vision-controlled shooting mechanism was ranked third worldwide, with 95% accuracy.

In addition to a busy competition season, the team just finished its biggest outreach effort of the year with our month-long “Occupy Whole Foods” campaign. This is when the team spends hours in Whole Foods, sharing our mission with shoppers. For the first time we had a presence in both Newton stores, where we talked to members of our community about STEM, FIRST, and the LigerBots

At the beginning of the competition season the team had the opportunity to publish an oped in the Newton TAB on Gracious Professionalism.