By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Tiger FIRST Robotics team is looking for sponsors for its inaugural year of competition.
This year 24 students from Thomas More Prep-Marian, Kansas Academy of Math and Science, and Hays High School will participate. The team has six mentors from Thomas More Prep, Hays High, Kansas Academy Academy of Math and Science, Fort Hays State University, and TreeTop Security.
The students build robots. The robots are used in an arena in competition with other teams from across the nation to place rings in shoots that trigger speakers. Each time a speaker is activated, the students earn points.
The teams are allowed only six weeks to design, build and test a robot.
The nationwide competition is funded through a grant from NASA. The competition has more than 9,000 teams this year.
Students exclusively qualify for $80 million in scholarships as participants of FIRST Robotics.
However, local funds are needed to pay for robot components, team T-shirts, banners, travel, registration fees and tools used in the repair pit during the competitions.
The team will compete in Kansas City and Oklahoma this spring with the hopes of earning a trip to nationals in Houston.
Treetop Security and STEM Harvest are providing support for the team.
For more information about the team, sponsoring or volunteering email [email protected].
See a sponsorship letter and form below.
