The road to this year's FIRST robotics competition proved unusually rough for a pair of teams when their robots were severely damaged in a car accident on the way to the University of Central Florida arena.
The high school students and their engineering mentors spent overnight hours salvaging usable pieces and the working components of the broken machines. The groups that had taken months to build the originals, rebuilt the pieces into a pair of new robots.
"Some of the students and one of the mentors stayed up all night," said mentor Paul Remmel. "(They) cobbled together two robots out of those parts and built other parts we didn't have."
The squads, called Horsepower and Bionic Tigers, competed in all their scheduled matches, using the time between sessions to refine their rebuilt machines.
"None of them even thought, 'We're not going to be able to get it back together,'" said Paul Ranyek, a Team Horsepower mentor.
Students from other teams also joined in the effort to salvage the damaged robots.
"They had about a day to rebuild six weeks' worth of work," said Deanna D'Alessandro of the Bionic Bears. "We all came together and right now those two robots are working. It was a great sense of pride for everyone when we saw those two robots actually working."
The high school students and their engineering mentors spent overnight hours salvaging usable pieces and the working components of the broken machines. The groups that had taken months to build the originals, rebuilt the pieces into a pair of new robots.
"Some of the students and one of the mentors stayed up all night," said mentor Paul Remmel. "(They) cobbled together two robots out of those parts and built other parts we didn't have."
The squads, called Horsepower and Bionic Tigers, competed in all their scheduled matches, using the time between sessions to refine their rebuilt machines.
"None of them even thought, 'We're not going to be able to get it back together,'" said Paul Ranyek, a Team Horsepower mentor.
Students from other teams also joined in the effort to salvage the damaged robots.
"They had about a day to rebuild six weeks' worth of work," said Deanna D'Alessandro of the Bionic Bears. "We all came together and right now those two robots are working. It was a great sense of pride for everyone when we saw those two robots actually working."
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