Gloucester Alumni

By Julio Chuy, Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

The high school robotics team kicked-off its journey to a February competition that could send it to an international robotics meet in Georgia later this year.

At the school's Science Wing Tuesday afternoon, about 15 eager students thanked supporters as they prepared for a robotics competition sponsored by NASA to be held in Boston in mid-February.

In attendance were Comcast officials who have sponsored the team, Superintendent Christopher Farmer, Principal Joe Sullivan and Mayor John Bell.

John Chiffer and Kurt Lichtenwald, science teachers at Gloucester High School, said the team is beginning its work to build a robot for next month's competition and has less than three weeks to do it.

About 45 students are involved in the project.

The competition requies the team to build a robotics device from scratch and make it perform a designed task. The winner will move to an international meet later this year.