Churchville-Chili FIRST Team wins award

The Churchville-Chili GRR (Greater Rochester Robotics) Team brought home the Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award in the regional FIRST Robotics competition held March 21-23 in New York City. Nortel Networks has sponsored the C-C team since its beginning several years ago. The team is now preparing for the national competition at the Epcot Center in Florida April 25-27.

GRR is composed of 23 Churchville-Chili Senior High School students in the school's Project Lead the Way engineering program. Another 20 mentors, parents and teachers round out the team of engineering personnel, teachers, parents, design specialists, animation specialists and marketing professionals.

The Delphi award is in recognition of engineering elegance including in design, wiring methods, material selection, programming techniques, and unique machine attributes. The criteria for this award is based on the team's ability to concisely verbally describe, as well as demonstrate, a chosen machine feature.

The FIRST Robotics competition involves more than 20,000 high school students in the United States, Canada, Brazil and the United Kingdom. The program brings professionals and young people together to solve an engineering design problem in a competitive setting.