The annual NASA and MIT-sponsored ZeroRobotics Tournament for high school teams involves the student teams writing computer programs to control robots which reside in the International Space Station. During the three months of the competition, the teams’ programs run on virtual robots in the internet on MIT’s computers. However, during the final of 4 competitions, those teams not eliminated during the previous 3 competitions meet in one of three gathering points around the world to watch their programs run on the actual robots in the International Space Station (ISS) in real-time.
This year’s competition started with over 240 teams from around the world, and of those, 42 teams were invited to the final tournament. Stuyvesant’s team (Stuy-Naught) along with its two alliance partner teams, from New Jersey and Italy, placed 1st and was the only alliance that successfully navigated its robot to compete the task of capturing and dragging a disabled robot. This competition task was inspired by the need, in the near future, to deal with the vast amount of space debris and disabled satellites. This is the second year in a row that our Stuy-Naught team has placed 1st in the competition. Team member, Ivan Galakov was the winner of the Stuyvesant/ZeroRobotics Blake Elias award.
Learn more at ZeroRobotics main site or see Tournament results. You can also watch Stuy-Naught’s successful performance video.
Team:
Anton Danylenko, captain
Daniel Gelfand, captain
Ivan Galakov Angela Tom
Yaru Luo David Lupea
Victor Lin Mohammad Uddin
Larry Wong Richard Wong
Qian Zhou Henry He
Ahnaf Hasan Simon Berens
Minuk Kim Peter Brooks, coach
