CM Robotics earns two recognitions at Boston Regionals

Antonio Rufo '10 and Brendan Shea '11 competed in Boston's regional competition of FIRST Robotics. The competition, which took place at Boston University's Agganis Arena on Friday and Saturday, March 6th and 7th, pitted 53 high school teams from across the United States and Canada against one another in robotics games.

Each team had six weeks to develop and build a robot to participate in the game, assisted by their mentor and company sponsorship. This year’s game was called “Lunacy,” in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the United States landing on the moon. It was a basketball-type game played on a hockey rink-type floor (without the

The Nutrons, a team coached by Josh Miranda and advised at CM by Josephine Antonellis, includes Rufo and Shea and nearly forty students from CM, Boston Latin, and Brookline High. At the Boston Regionals, the Nutrons won the Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award and were recognized for their “Ask an Engineer” program, a program that helps other local area teams that don’t have the necessary resources to complete their robots.

The Nutrons will be competing in the FIRST National Championships in Atlanta in April.