Riley Ceria, a staff
member at CSO, has been strongly supporting the robotics program at
Waiakea High School (WHS) since 2006.
Riley spends about three hours per week to teach Robotics at Waiakea
High. The team, led by their teacher Dale Olive (crouching in
front of the robot "Stitch III"), worked very hard with
Riley. The most recent competition that Waiakea High School
participated in was the
International Micro Robot Maze Contest held in Nagoya, Japan on
November 11, 2007.
Waiakea High School has a robotics team consisting about
40 students. Seventeen students went to Japan for the
competition. The students entered in four separate categories
with two 1-cm cubic robots and four 1-inch cube robots. The
first category they entered in, category 0: Micro Robot Racer, was a
race between 1-cm cube robots in a straight line and in a slalom.
The robot named Stitch.05 controlled by Jordan Olive came in third
place. In category 2a: Autonomous Micro Robot Maze Competition,
the robot, Teeny Humuhumu, came in first place being the only robot
capable of autonomous operation. In the remote controlled
category, category 2b, Teeny Humuhumu, driven by Kazane Namikawa, came
in 4th place, and also received the Best Award, since it was one of
only two teams to finish the remote control category without
penalty.
The Robotic Team's accomplishments were documented in the Hawaii
Tribune-Herald, Honolulu Star Bulletin, and Honolulu Advertiser.
Waiakea High School Robotics Team in Nagoya, Japan, posing with their
three awards.
After gaining so much attention from Newspaper coverages, the Caltech
Submillimeter Observatory booth at RoboFest 2007
gained a lot of attention since they were demonstrating the Micro
Robots along with Waiakea High School.
Kids playing the Micro Robots
at Robofest 2007. (The photo was taken by
Kumiko Usuda-Sato
at Subaru
Telescope. )
Volunteers from Waiakea High
and CSO, from left to right, Hiroko Shinnaga, Kazane Namikawa,
Kelson Lau, Melanie Aki, and Riley Ceria. (The photo was taken by
Kumiko Usuda-Sato
at Subaru
Telescope. )
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Waiakea
High Robotics Team participates at the
International Micro Robot Maze Contest
2007 at Nagoya