After winning the state robotics championship last month, four Cape Henlopen High School students are prepping for the 2016 VEX Worlds robotics contest where they’ll compete with 449 other teams from around the globe, according to a story from DelmarvaNow.
Seniors Jack Kyritsis, Griffin MacCoy and Kyle Eastham and junior Ryan Wisely have created Steph, named after NBA star Steph Curry, to be a nothing-but-net machine.
The robot picks up balls and throws them into a net, and in the competition, the goal is to make as many baskets as possible in two minutes, with extra points awarded for where the ball lands on the net.
The students made Steph autonomous for the first 15 seconds of play, as required by the competition, and then they use a remote to control his wheels and launcher.
Kyritsis told DelmarvaNow that they built Steph based on the mechanics of a pitching machine.
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The four can continue tweaking Steph until the competition, which is April 20-23 in Louisville, Ky.
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