Building Bots With the Robotics Club

A deeper look into the Central Kitsap Robotics Club

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Mateo Hays

Club members Sam and Axel Learning Electrical boards

by Mateo Hays, Reporter

The Central Kitsap High School Robotics club is one of the many unique clubs at CK. Unlike other clubs the CK Robotics club meets on multiple days a week and it meets at Olympic High School. The club meets in the back of the highschool in the Robotics room (#132).  

The club is hosted and supervised by Thomas Beck and Jennifer Hedegaard. The club is similar to a sport as they work to compete against other clubs in certain events. Robotics club team captain Daniel Song goes to the meetings and listens to the others and encourages them with their ideas and helps them make their ideas a possibility.

“We’re doing a competition called FRC,” said Song. “It stands for the first robotics competition and basically we’re gonna go out and compete with other club robots.”  Said Song

The club works to make new and unique robots every year to go and compete in the events. The robotics club is currently struggling with the task this year because of the small number of people that are currently in the club, nevertheless they are still working hard to teach new people the basics to help out with the task at hand.

“At the moment the school is paying for all our stuff, and we are getting the DOD to start giving us donations for all the computers and parts,” said Song.

The robotics club is a school funded club that is trying to find new ways to express creativity in the school district in ways that most people can’t. Learning to build code wire and produce a functioning robot takes a lot of skill and time and that’s why the robotics club builds a team to help work and adapt to the struggles that they might overcome.  If   interested in stuff like that you should join the Central Kitsap Robotics Club.