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From left to right, Up-A-Creek Robotics coach Clint Ott and student team members
Caitlyn Fong, Walker Brandon, Gavin Lopez and Tegan Chanders celebrate their win
at the FIRST Robotics Competition world event April 23 in Houston. (Jason Shin/
FIRST)
By Amy Bounds | boundsa@dailycamera.com | Boulder Daily Camera
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2022 at 1:36 p.m. | UPDATED: April 29, 2022 at 1:37 p.m.

St. Vrain Valley Schools-sponsored Up-A-Creek Robotics teams recently won world
championships in two different FIRST robotics competitions in Houston.

The win by the Up-A-Creek FIRST Robotics Challenge team, composed of 75 high
school students from across the school district, marked the first time Colorado
team won a world championship at the competition.

This also was the first time in FIRST’s history that one organization won both
events in a single year, according to Up-A-Creek. The other world championship
was won by an Up-A-Creek team competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge competition.
That team is composed of 14 students in grades seven through 12.

The challenge competition required the 75-student team to design, build and test
a 120-pound, 5-foot-tall robot that competed on a basketball court sized floor.





The challenge was to build a robot in a few months that could accurately and
quickly launch oversized tennis balls into a large funnel in the center of the
floor, then climb offset parallel bars within a 2½-minute game.

The Up-A-Creek team was undefeated during the regular season, advancing to the
world championship in Houston with about 450 other teams. Forty students from
the team attended the championship, and the team was undefeated through the
playoffs, winning its division.

For the finals, Up-A-Creek team members picked teams from California, Michigan
and Texas to form an alliance. Their alliance won the world championship in a
tiebreaker, using three robots that included a “secret weapon” from the Michigan
team that had the ability to hold two of the opponents balls in their machine
while defending.

“This starved the other alliance of fuel, and we won,” said Niwot High School
computer science teacher Teresa Ewing, who is a team mentor.



Milo Ruiz, a senior at Silver Creek High School, joined Up-A-Creek four years
ago. This year, he worked on the controls team, which was in charge of
assembling, wiring and prototyping different systems.

“I learned a lot about mechanics and electrical work and the design process,”
said Ruiz, who is planning to study aerospace engineering at Purdue University.
“You learn how to think.”

At the competition, he was on the pit crew, making sure the robot was in good
working order after each match.

“It’s not a tiny little robot,” he said. “It’s got a lot of stuff on it. You
have to know everything that can go wrong.”

Along with building a high quality robot, he said, his team was successful
because they worked well together.

“We did really well with having a connected team,” he said. “We knew each
other’s strengths and weaknesses.”

For the FIRST Tech Challenge, the 14-student team started building a robot in
September that could drive over and around bars on the floor while collecting
small balls, cubes and rubber ducks, placing them at different heights on
platforms. The team’s students also wrote a 375-page engineering notebook and
portfolio documenting their design process, team business and strategy plan.

At the Colorado state championship in February, their notebook, along with their
tournament-winning robot and a judged presentation, earned them the Inspire
Award and one of only two spots for Colorado teams at the world championship.

After a difficult start at the world championship, the team finished the
qualification matches in sixth place in their division. The team then was chosen
by the first place team, from Romania, to compete in the elimination matches in
an alliance with a third team from Florida.

The three-team alliance went undefeated, winning the division finals and
outscoring the opposing alliance in two of three close matches to claim the
world championship.

Nichelle Gilbert, a freshman at Niwot High, joined Up-A-Creek in fourth grade.
This year, she worked on the tech challenge’s software team and described
building the robot as “a very bumpy road.” The team also built a second,
improved version of the robot just a few weeks before worlds, requiring her
group to reconfigure all their code.

“This season, we were able to write super sophisticated code, which I think
definitely helped us succeed,” she said. “We are able to run a lot of cycles
autonomously, even during the driver controlled period, and we have a lot of
sensor inputs that help execute tasks more efficiently. Our robot design was
also amazing this year.”

While she said she was “immensely excited” to win a global competition, she
called FIRST’s promotion of the idea of “gracious professionalism” the most
important lesson that she learned in robotics.

“Even if you lose, you haven’t actually lost because you’ve met so many amazing
people along the way,” she said. “And, when the winning team goes to the next
level, you’re going with them too, at least in spirit.”

FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — describes
itself as “World’s leadingyouth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.”

Up-A-Creek Robotics started with a dozen students at Silver Creek High School in
2005 and has expanded to about 150 fourth through 12th grade students.
Up-A-Creek, which is governed by the non-profit GEAR Alliance, has eight teams
representing seven St. Vrain high schools, 25 adult mentors, and its own
building and machine shop.

Ewing said 2015 was a pivotal year, with the organization moving into its
building, which was donated by Terry and Cathy Olkin. That same year, she said,
the organization started coaching a junior robotics program for fourth through
eighth graders, while St. Vrain Valley “started getting serious about STEM.”

“All of our students are so much better prepared when they come onto the team,”
she said. “Seventy-five percent of our current students were part of junior
robotics programs, and most have had a programming or engineering course at
school.”





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