Mike has worked for two semesters on creating a robot from scratch with a team. Today was the competition to find out whose robot was the best. Christina, Carter, and Mike's mom and brothers came around 2 when the top 16 were going to compete for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

The robot had to navigate through a course with 12 plastic crates filled with random things. The crates that the robot was suppose to detect had either a magnetic field or an infrared light. The robot that picked up 2 out of the three crates received the most points. Mike and his team programed the robot to run autonomously (run on its on) so it had sensors to detect the line to follow, as well as what do to when it sensed the correct crate.

This video was the final round for Mike's group to win the 3rd place slot. There was a lot of tension because they lost the last round because their robot did not perform hardly at all, so we were anxious about this last run. Unfortunately the video wouldn't upload to our blog, but the exciting news is that they won 3rd place!! Yeah! It was super fun and amazing to watch. Their robot had a few hiccups, but it totally did a great job. We're so proud of all the work that Mike and his team did.