Adams-Stoney Creek Team Takes 1st at Robotics Tournament

Oakland Schools submitted the following news release:

The fourth competition of the Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association was held Nov. 10 at Seaholm High School in Birmingham. OCCRA’s 20 teams (representing 22 high schools and two Oakland Schools Technical Campuses) played their fourth Tic-Tac-Stack game of the season. OCCRA robots place 8.5-inch playground balls into different size structures. The tournament structure randomly pairs robots from two different schools in an “alliance” against two robots from an opposing alliance.

Awards were presented to:

· First Place – Top Score 138 points: Team #245 Rochester Adams and Stoney Creek High Schools

· Second Place – Score 128 points: Team #573 Brother Rice and Marion High Schools

· Third Place – Score 112 points: Team #33 Notre Dame Prep

· Beautiful Bot Award: Team #3 West Bloomfield High School

· Spirit of the Competition Award:  Team #51 Pontiac High School

· Technical Excellence Award:  Team #33 Notre Dame Prep

· Strategic Design Award: Team #4469 International Academy East

· Quality Award: Team #1 Oakland Schools Technical Campus Northeast

· Judge’s Awards: Team #123 Oakland Schools Technical Campus Southwest and Team #3302 Clawson High School

· VEX Award:  Team #43 Holly High School

This is a full contact robotics competition, where students control their 120-pound creations as they clash on the court of play. OCCRA robots play rough and some damage will surely occur, but unlike “Battlebots,” the rules prohibit teams from intentionally damaging another machine. In addition to the large robots, teams also use smaller VEX robots for part of the game.