Oak Creek High School Robotics Plans Texas Trip After Regional Award

OAK CREEK, WI — The robotics team at Oak Creek High School, known as Round Table Robotics, was recently awarded high honors at a competition in Milwaukee, qualifying the team for a competition in Houston, Texas in April, according to a news release from the team.

After an event in Milwaukee on Saturday, the high school team was given the Chairman's Award, which is the highest award given at a regional FIRST Robotics competition. The FIRST organization helps to plan various robotics teams and competitions across the globe.

Students had been working toward such a goal for seven years now, since the team was established, the news release said. Round Table Robotics will be able to bring their robot and team to the Championship Competition in Houston, according to the news release, and fundraising has begun to help them get there.

The award allows the FIRST organization to recognize teams for exemplary efforts in spreading the organization's message, and honors teams that best represent a model that embodies the FIRST mission, according to the organization's website. The creation of the award came to ensure the competitions maintain their ultimate goal of inspiring respect and honor for science and technology.

"All of our students have had a hand in bringing this achievement home to our school and to our community," the team's news release said.

Members of the team worked to build a competition robot, mentor younger teams and build a farming robot that can help to donate fresh produce to those who need it, the release said.

"Our students have gone above and beyond to not only improve themselves, but to build up the world around them to make it a better place for the next generation," the team's news release said. "We are humbled by this award and we are proud of each of our team members for working together to make this dream a reality."