On Saturday, 25 February, five students from the AIS Robotics Team competed in the 2023 DoDEA Europe FTC First Power Play Invitational. Thirty-three teams from three countries met to compete at Kaiserslautern High School, Germany. AIS won 4 of their 5 matches and took home the Innovate Award for their unique and innovative robot.
Innovate Award sponsored by Raytheon Technologies:
Bringing great ideas from concept to reality.
The Innovate Award celebrates a Team that thinks imaginatively and has the ingenuity, creativity, and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This judged award is given to the Team that has the most innovative and creative Robot design solution to any specific components in the FIRST Tech Challenge game. Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness, and ‘out of the box’ thinking related to design.
Team Members: Chris D, Colin S, Kyliee T, Caleb M, and Ben G.