Robotics Team for South Brunswick High School
Bringing the future to students.
Building a robot may sound like it may only be of interest for certain types of individuals with specific technical and programming abilities, however, experience leads us to believe that real success comes from students with a wide variety of talents and a broad base of interests working together toward achieving a particular goal.
We are proud to have started a co-curricular Robotics program at South Brunswick High School in the Fall of 2012. VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) is an international program for middle and high school students that has as its goal to engage student participants in the study of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through a competition in which students build innovative robots to solve a challenge. Through the competition, students are expected to devise creative solutions to difficult problems, work as a team, learn sportsmanship, communicate effectively, and build leadership skills.
"VEX is a championship for robotics that varies from all ages and grades up to the college level. The Championship is broken down into several leagues for each school level.
VEX rolls out each year with a new game to play with special rules and challenges that teams need to build around in order to gain points. The focus of VEX is to inspire students to learn more about robotics by creating a safe and stable environment to practice their skills. VEX also provides a challenging problem to each game that allows students to develop problem solving skills.
VEX itself is a Robotics Design System that provides itself as an easy to learn format for students. Students are required to know and learn more about technology, math, science, and engineering to fully understand VEX. Each competition allows for teams to learn from each other, and create more ideas. This new wave of problem solving and group work can help create a more educated society about robotics and with an active interest in engineering and math."
Every robotics member first goes through one year of training. At the end of the year, every "freshman" (In actuality, they can be freshmen, sophomores, or juniors) will take multiple tests and be interviewed to determine his or her role within the CREW teams.
The teaching staff is comprised of CREW members. Dale Nacianceno is the leader within this staff, with Sai Maduri, Jennifer Gerald, Zain Shaikh, Pradhyun Tinnanur, and Karthik Sankar also teaching the freshmen. This team, along with Mr. Brady and Ms. Robles, create and maintain the curriculum throughout the school year.
We are no longer accepting new member applications for the 2017-2018 season.
If you would like to find other ways to get involved, please contact one of the advisors.
"VEX is a championship for robotics that varies from all ages and grades up to the college level. The Championship is broken down into several leagues for each school level.
VEX rolls out each year with a new game to play with special rules and challenges that teams need to build around in order to gain points. The focus of VEX is to inspire students to learn more about robotics by creating a safe and stable environment to practice their skills. VEX also provides a challenging problem to each game that allows students to develop problem solving skills.
VEX itself is a Robotics Design System that provides itself as an easy to learn format for students. Students are required to know and learn more about technology, math, science, and engineering to fully understand VEX. Each competition allows for teams to learn from each other, and create more ideas. This new wave of problem solving and group work can help create a more educated society about robotics and with an active interest in engineering and math."
-VEX Robotics Wiki
The South Brunswick Robotics Parent Association is a non-profit group comprised of parents of current and former Robotics students. The Parent Assiciation is committed to ensuring that all of our teams have the resources they need to be successful in competition and otherwise. VEX Robotics is a very community-oriented by nature, and cooperation between our teams, our teachers, and our parents is essential to meeting our high standards.
If you would like to volunteer your time and resources to benefit our programs, please contact the program advisors.
We divide students into 4 teams. Each team collaborates between
their team members to design, code, and build their robot.
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Advisors
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Freshmen
Meet the people who make everything possible.
Mr. Brady is one of an advisor of the South Brunswick High School VEX Robotics program. He has played a vital part in leading the CREW members for a few years now, and is proud of each individual student's growth. He has taught FRC at other schools in the past, and plans on continuing his work as a mentor for students for as long as he can.
Ms. Robles is an advisor for the South Brunswick High School VEX Robotics program. Because she also teaches Computer Science at the High School, she plays a key role in assisting the CREW members with tasks. She also assists in teaching the freshmen.