Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Beaumont won it all, but students Beaumont and Cleveland Heights won other awards Saturday
Cleveland Heights High School lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual winners of the 2013 RoboBots Competition, The "Beaumontsters," but students from both schools left the event with prestigious awards. The Alliance for Working Together could have selected nominees from any of the 19 teams from various schools to win the U.S. Air Force award, but its selections were students about both of the schools in Heights. Cleveland Heights senior Bryan Kent and Beaumont junior Elizabeth Stanitz both won the award. The award is given to students who demonstrate leadership qualities in a team, problem-solving atmosphere. Coaches and company sponsors nominated a member of each team, and The Alliance for Working Together, which produces the RoboBots…
Monday, April 29, 2013
The Beaumonsters will travel to the national competition in Indianapolis next month
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 …
Monday, April 30, 2012
Both Cleveland Heights schools participated in second annual RoboBots competition at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland
For the past six months, Ann Kent has been without a car on Saturday mornings. However, she saw the reason why this weekend at the second annual RoboBots competition in Kirtland, and she was fine with it. "On Saturdays, he's up at 6:10 a.m. — a 17-year-old — and starts picking up his buddies on the way out to Willoughby to Heisler Tool Company," Kent said of her son, Bryan, a junior at Cleveland Heights High School. "He's going into mechanical engineering, he's very certain." Bryan spent that time in Willoughby building and preparing for his CHHS Street Sweepers' robot to face off against 23 other school teams at Lakeland Community College. The team suffered an early exit, leaving Bryan and teammate Gabe Wojnarowski to discuss how much …
