4-H Extravaganza at Shelton High Excites Crowd July 30

4-H Team 5295 “Aldernating Current” and the Shelton High Robotics Club let visitors drive their student-built robot “Gingko”, a four mecanum wheeled side sliding wonder at the 4-H Extravaganza.  Visitors also drove the competition robot “Ironwood” around tables in the Student Union Building.

High school students built “Gingko” from scratch in December 2015.  The students decided to make the robot using mecanum wheels, each of which have small rollers around its edges that allow the robot to slide sideways.  Students named the robot after the “Gingko Petrified Forest”.

Students designed and built 120 lbs. “Ironwood” to meet the requirements of the 2016 FIRST game “Stronghold”.  Teams of three robots had to cross nine obstacles including moats, shoot “boulders” into a castle, and climb the castle.

Three students, four volunteers, and a hundred visitors attended on behalf of 4-H “Aldernating Current” Team 5295 FIRST Robotics of Mason County, primarily composed of students with the Shelton High Robotics Club.  Students: Chris, Hunter, and Kiery.  Volunteers: A.Estrada, A.Hospador, G.Inman, and A.Walker.