Bremerton High School

The Bremerton High School Robotics Team “BremerTron” had a great season, which culminated in the team winning second place at the Pacific Northwest Auburn District First Robotics Competition at Auburn High School.

Every year the robotics competition game is different and teams are tasked with building an "industrial sized" robot to compete. These robots are typically about 3'x3'x4' and they weigh 150+ pounds when complete.

This year’s game was “Reefscape." Teams were tasked with imagining their robots as underwater vehicles tasked with placing “coral” pieces onto a reef structure in order to rehabilitate it. Simultaneously teams had to remove harmful “algae” from the reef structure. At the end of the game, robots had to climb on to diving cages suspended by chains and lift themselves off of the floor to “return to the surface.”

“The team did a great job at this tournament and the previous tournament of working through problems and getting them solved,” said Blake Greisinger, BremerTron’s adviser.

Students in the First Robotics Club (BremerTron) can directly apply skills and knowledge learned in CTE classes to a team-oriented, large-scale project. “While it’s easy to see how a 3D mechanical design skill or a metal machining skill is directly applicable to the team there are other CTE skills such as graphic design, marketing, photography, public and improvisational speaking, and communication which are just as important to make the team a well organized and functional whole at the event," according to Mr. Greisinger.