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Media Spotlight: Asbury Park Press Features Ranney Robotics
Article by Carol Gorga Williams
TINTON FALLS — For his second-grade Career Day, Raymond Moser, now 17, took a discarded traffic light that belonged to his father, and repaired its light board so it would operate, albeit with a slight disco ball touch.With the help of his father, who has an engineering degree, Moser, now a junior at the Ranney School, could make the lights speed up or slow down as his fellow pupils demanded.
So it is not a stretch that Moser, who lives in Shrewsbury, is one of the more enthusiastic members of the Ranney School’s robotics class. Moser was an inaugural robotics club member three years ago.
“It is not only competition and winning the competition,” he said. “It is also originality and creativity.”
Watch the video above to see some of the work the robotics club does.
In that first year, all the club had was Moser’s robot. Now it has seven, and members hope to have five more for next year’s round of competitions, said Chiara Shah, teacher and club adviser.
Shah said she will likely teach a basic robotics class next year and two advanced classes.
In Shah’s classroom, students work from a 12-by-12-foot platform that mimics the one being used in major competitions this year. The students must build a robot and then program it to scale a bump, then climb under a metal bar in order to reach some rubber balls, which the robotic arms must pick up and pile into plastic cylinders. The big finish is to get the robot to reach up with a bar and hang.
“Persistence is a big thing because of failure,” said Ethan Daniels, 17, of Spring Lake Heights. Students can spend a week or so trying to make something work only to learn they must begin again, he said.
Until someone designs a robot that can retrieve a can of soda from a refrigerator and hand it off to his owner, work continues. “And I hope we are the ones doing it,” Moser said.
View the video here.
Asbury Park: Robotics class at Ranney School in Tinton Falls teaches competition, teamwork
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TINTON FALLS — For his second-grade Career Day, Raymond Moser, now 17, took a discarded traffic light that belonged to his father, and repaired its light board so it would operate, albeit with a slight disco ball touch.With the help of his father, who has an engineering degree, Moser, now a junior at the Ranney School, could make the lights speed up or slow down as his fellow pupils demanded.
So it is not a stretch that Moser, who lives in Shrewsbury, is one of the more enthusiastic members of the Ranney School’s robotics class. Moser was an inaugural robotics club member three years ago.
“It is not only competition and winning the competition,” he said. “It is also originality and creativity.”
Watch the video above to see some of the work the robotics club does.
In that first year, all the club had was Moser’s robot. Now it has seven, and members hope to have five more for next year’s round of competitions, said Chiara Shah, teacher and club adviser.
Shah said she will likely teach a basic robotics class next year and two advanced classes.
In Shah’s classroom, students work from a 12-by-12-foot platform that mimics the one being used in major competitions this year. The students must build a robot and then program it to scale a bump, then climb under a metal bar in order to reach some rubber balls, which the robotic arms must pick up and pile into plastic cylinders. The big finish is to get the robot to reach up with a bar and hang.
“Persistence is a big thing because of failure,” said Ethan Daniels, 17, of Spring Lake Heights. Students can spend a week or so trying to make something work only to learn they must begin again, he said.
Until someone designs a robot that can retrieve a can of soda from a refrigerator and hand it off to his owner, work continues. “And I hope we are the ones doing it,” Moser said.
View the video here.
Asbury Park: Robotics class at Ranney School in Tinton Falls teaches competition, teamwork
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We envision Ranney School as a nurturing learning community, in which families, faculty, alumni, and all of Ranney’s constituents collaborate to know and value every child, foster individual talents, sustain powerful connections between children and adults, and graduate resilient, globally-minded citizens.
