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<p><strong>The annual NASA and MIT-sponsored ZeroRobotics</strong> <strong>Tournament</strong> 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. </p>
<p>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 1<sup>st</sup> and was the <u>only</u> 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 1<sup>st</sup> in the competition. Team member, <strong>Ivan Galakov </strong>was the winner of the Stuyvesant/ZeroRobotics Blake Elias award.</p>
<p>Learn more at <a href="http://zerorobotics.mit.edu/">ZeroRobotics main site</a> or see <a href="http://zerorobotics.mit.edu/announcements/51/">Tournament results</a>. You can also watch <a href="http://bert.stuy.edu/pbrooks/zerorobotics-2018/ZR-2018-Hooking/ZR-2018-Hooking_player.html">Stuy-Naught’s successful performance video.</a></p>
<p>Team:<br/>Anton Danylenko, captain<br/>Daniel Gelfand, captain<br/>Ivan Galakov Angela Tom<br/>Yaru Luo David Lupea<br/>Victor Lin Mohammad Uddin<br/>Larry Wong Richard Wong<br/>Qian Zhou Henry He<br/>Ahnaf Hasan Simon Berens<br/>Minuk Kim Peter Brooks, coach</p>
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