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The Staples High School Robotics Team, called The Wreckers 577, dominated the Connecticut Tournament of the First Tech Challenge on March 5.
The Staples team members are Haris Durrani, Timothy Yang, Alec Solder, Erin Gandelman, Dylan Roncati, Mrinal Kumar, and John Solder, with Joshua Schwartz providing supervision.
The tourney included 22 schools from New England, New York and Pennsylvania, part of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition In Science and Technology) program.
The Wreckers 577 robot dominated the state tourney from the outset. The performance challenge consisted of five rounds of four teams randomly paired up so that two team's robots formed an alliance and competed against the other alliance. The Wreckers 577 defeated all the other teams in its division through all five challenges.
The Staples team was primarily mentored by two seniors, Haris Durrani and Timothy Yang, and they beat better-funded teams, including two mentored by MIT faculty.
After dominating the regular rounds, the Wreckers 577 swept the semi-finals and final round to emerge champions. This qualifies the local squad as one of 500 teams from 50 nations to vie for honors at the First Tech Challenge World Robotics Championship event to be held in St. Louis in April.
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