Beaumont Students Claim RoboBots Championship

The 2013 RoboBots team from Beaumont faced West Geauga in the final round for the second year in a row, but this time the Cleveland Heights school brought home a championship.

The group of sophomores and juniors dubbed the Beaumonsters spent much of the school year constructing Ramses, a polycarbonate robot with an 18-spike, titanium spinner that powered through six rounds of destruction. The Beaumonsters were lead by biology teacher Gretchen Santo and sponsored by Christopher Tool & Manufacturing Co. of Solon.

Beaumont also won the competition's "Coolest Robot" award, selected by their peers. The award was for the team with the robot that had a "you know it when you see it" factor, announcer Ray Somich said. Nineteen teams from schools like Cleveland Heights, Lake Catholic and Painesville Harvey participated in the third installment of the competition. The event is produced by the Alliance for Working Together, a consortium of area manufacturers working with Lakeland to promote their industry as a viable career option for soon-to-be graduates.

The girls won trophies and a heavy metal chassis kit from Lexington, Ky.-based GEARS, valued at $900, to help them construct next year's robot.

The team will compete in the National Robotics League competition May 17 to 19 in Indianapolis. 

Sophomore Alyssa Muttillo talks about her experience on the winning team in the above video.