GRANDVILLE, Mich., Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Students at Grandville High School continue to garner national attention for photos showcasing their extensive extracurricular science and technology experience. News outlets from around the country and the world have picked up photos posted by the RoboDawgs, Grandville High School's highly acclaimed robotics team.
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The RoboDawgs are among the most accomplished high school teams in the country, with team members building competitive robots that drive, fly, cruise the surface of lakes and rivers, dive underwater, and soar into the stratosphere. Check out some of these hot photos from around the web:
Photo from high-altitude research balloon selected for the NBC News Blog's top space photos: http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/31/22523668-balloons-view-from-25-miles-up-in-month-in-space
The RoboDawgs make components for NASA sounding rocket payload, from WOOD-TV8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mons4yiw2UU
Photos from the fastest autonomous boat race in America, featured on MLIVE: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/10/photos_high_school_teams_take.html
Photos from winning RoboDawg FIRST Robotics team featured on USFIRST.org: http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/nljan14/grant-money-awarded-to-foster-first-programs
Photos of RoboDawgs working on a robot that went on to play at the FIRST Championship, featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/87422377.html
Photos of RoboDawg VEX Robotics teams qualifying for World Championship, from MLIVE: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/03/two_grandville_robotics_teams.html
The RoboDawgs have designed, built, and programmed competitive robots since 1998. Learn more, and see exciting photos from the teens on the Grandville High School RoboDawgs on the team's blog: http://robodawgs.wordpress.com/
The Grandville High School RoboDawgs are one of the United States' largest and most accomplished high school robotics teams. Grandville Public Schools has been a leader in educational robotics for more than 16 years. Beginning with one high school robotics team in 1998, the district's program has now grown to include more than 44 teams based at the District's Robotics & Engineering Center. More than 700 students, from fourth through twelfth grades, participate on Grandville robotics teams, designing, building, and programming robotics for competitions around the world. Grandville has one of largest Lego League programs in the country, with the District fielding 21 teams this year. These students go on to compete in the District's VEX Robotics program at the middle school level, as well as the FIRST Robotics competition and the Great American River Race at the high school level. Team members build quadcopters and underwater rovers for high school competitions in the Midwest. This year, the RoboDawgs' high-altitude balloon program is expected to achieve long distance sustained flight through neutral buoyancy for the first time.
For more information, contact RoboDawg Head Coaches: Mike Evele – Email (616) 916-0300 or Doug Hepfer – Email (616)540-3239