In its first year in the First Robotics competition, students from Sauk Rapids-Rice had almost completed their robot and were ready to prepare it for shipping.
Then, just days before the entry deadline, the students and adviser Eric Leblanc, a tech education teacher at the high school, discovered two key parts that make the robot run were gone.
Apollo coach Mark Weimer had extra parts and offered them to Sauk Rapids-Rice, along with the opportunity to share work space and advice in a shop at the St. Cloud high school.
“Everybody competes, but everybody helps each other out,” Weimer said.
The robots should be ready to compete in the First Robotics regional competitions next month. Sauk Rapids-Rice is competing March 10-12 in Duluth, and Apollo will compete March 31-April 2 at Williams Arena in Minneapolis.
“It’s going real well. We’ve had our ups and downs,” Leblanc said.
The students are building a robot that moves and has an arm that can place an inflatable tube over a hook. The teams score more points depending how high they can get the robot to place the tubes on the hooks.
Sauk Rapids-Rice ninth-graders Katie Ford and Beka Sneed were at Apollo this week working on the robot with their teammates. They were getting a small robot to climb a pole. They said they joined the robotics team because they thought it might be fun to see what they could accomplish.
The girls said they were disappointed by the setback. The parts are believed to have been stolen Thursday or Friday. The parts are small and worthless apart from the robot. Whoever took them left more valuable things in the shop room including tools and a laptop.
The setback did not sit well with the six students who are part of the first Sauk Rapids-Rice team to enter the contest.
“I was very upset and frustrated,” Sneed said.
But the atmosphere inside the shop room was festive and full of cooperation, even while snow piled up outside the school earlier this week.
St. Cloud’s team is called the Granite City Gearheads. The team wore bright orange T-shirts and shared food and advice with their friends from across the river. The white board in the classroom read “Welcome Sauk Rapids.”
Sauk Rapids student Tyler Nash wants to be a robotic engineer; that’s why he joined the team. He said he is grateful to Apollo for helping out.
“It was nice of them to invite us over,” Nash said.
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