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“Fishing Bots” was the theme for Virginia Western Community College’s 16th annual Autonomous Robot Competition. Here is more on the event from Virginia Western faculty member George Studtmann:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eli Evans, Ben Escalera and Dominic Thomas, here with Dr. Arnold Yim, were the winning high school team, the Steel Peel Bananas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Virginia Western hosted its annual Autonomous Robot Competition on Saturday, Dec. 7.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teams were required to design and build an autonomous fishing robot that successfully gathered up to seven wooden\u00a0fish while identifying three fishing spots with missing fish, all randomly placed in three lakes, and deliver the seven caught fish to either of two fishing stations in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve teams from local high schools and Virginia Western competed.\u00a0\u00a0The Botetourt Technical Educational Center hosted three teams and Cave Spring High School hosted two teams. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ben Bellino and Nick Powers, here with Dr. Arnold Yim of the Math Department, were the winning college team, called Fishcakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Teams competed in five trials, completed a technical report and presented before engineering and STEM judges.\u00a0 Four new judges from Metalsa attended. \u00a0Awards were presented to the top three teams for high school and college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning team for college was called Fishcakes and scored a total of 367 out of 435 points. \u00a0Ben Bellino and Nick Powers are VWCC Mechatronics students.\u00a0\u00a0Winners are shown with Dr. Arnold Yim of the Math Department,\u00a0a co-director of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning high school team from the VWCC Academy, and overall competition champion, was The Steel Peel Bananas, consisting of juniors Eli Evans, Ben Escalera and Dominic Thomas. The Steel Peel Bananas scored 421 out of 435, and their robot performed all five trials perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The robot for the Fishcakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The robot for the Steel Peel Bananas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Fishing Bots” was the theme for Virginia Western Community College’s 16th annual Autonomous Robot Competition. Here is more on the event from Virginia Western faculty member George Studtmann: Virginia Western hosted its annual Autonomous Robot Competition on Saturday, Dec. 7.\u00a0 Teams were required to design and build an autonomous fishing robot that successfully gathered up… Continue Reading Robots fish for success at Virginia Western<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Erica Myatt","author_link":"https:\/\/www.virginiawestern.edu\/news\/author\/emyatt\/"},"yoast_head":"\nRobots fish for success at Virginia Western - News from Virginia Western<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Article about Robots fish for success at Virginia Western\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiawestern.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/robots-fish-for-success-at-virginia-western\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robots fish for success at Virginia Western - 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