Framingham High Robotics Team Qualifies For World Championships

Four Framingham High School robotics teams competed in the Southern New England Skyrise Championship at Quinsigamond Community College in a two-day competition, over the weekend.

Each team competed in 12 matches, and showed off its programming and Robot Driving skills during the competition, said advisor Peter Erbland.

As a result of their score in programming skills, Framingham High junior Shristi Varshney and her teammates Varun Tekur and Joey Wolpert (Team 9421X – FHS Robotics X) qualified to be one of 400 teams, from across the globe, to participated in the 2015 VEX Robotics World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky in April.

This will be the second trip to the World Championship for both Joey and Varun, as they went as Walsh grade 8 students in 2014.

Framingham High senior Daniel Shapiro and juniors Evan Chansky and Eric Bornstein, comprised Team 9421 – Triple Threat, and were awarded their second Innovate Award of the competition year, said Erbland.

Their ingenious pneumatic gripper was praised by the judges as a unique piece of engineering which formed an integral part of their solution to the complex problems presented by the VEX Robotics game, said Erbland.

The other high school students that participated over the weekend were juniors Chris Thierauf and Jared Nussbaum (Team 9421Y – Y-Knot) and freshman Ben Zalkin (Team 9421G – Full Metal).

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Framingham Patch reported earlier this week, that a Walsh Middle School team also qualified for the 2015 World Championships in Kentucky. This is the second year in a row, a Walsh Middle School team qualified.