Robotics Club wins $6,000 Sponsorship from NASA

In the spring, the PioTech robotics team entered the FRC FIRST Robotics Competition in Mt. Olive and returned finalists.

Pioneer Academy’s Robotics Team PioTech was awarded a $6,000 sponsorship by NASA. The sponsorship from NASA will help the PioTech Robotics team prepare for this year’s FRC competitions and hopefully bring more trophies to Pioneer.

At the moment, PioTech is gearing up for the next season. “We will get our mission for the next competition in January,” said team captain Bekhruz Bakhodirov.

“So right now we are just having fun working on a candy-shooting robot. It can shoot Kit-Kats candy bars to a person all the way across the room.”

The team brought back three trophies last year: Highest Rookie Seed, the Rookie Inspiration Award which celebrates a rookie team’s success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers within their school and community, and the District Finalist Award. The team was also selected to receive Argosy Tool and Equipment Foundation’s grant as a result of being a FIRST Mid-Atlantic FRC rookie team!