Schools
Beach City Robotics Gets a Boost
The program, made up of students from Mira Costa and Redondo high schools, is among the beneficiaries of $1 million in grants to South Bay schools.
Less than a week before its biggest competition of the year, the Beach Cities Robotics Team got a major circuit boost Thursday in the form of a grant from the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo.
The team, made up of students from Mira Costa and Redondo Beach high schools, is among the beneficiaries of $1 million in "Energy for Learning" grants awarded to 15 South Bay schools to fund programs in science, technology, engineering and math.
Beach Cities Robotics is headed to the Robotic World Championship in Atlanta from April 15-17 after taking the "Innovation in Control" award at the regional competition in Los Angeles in March.
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At a news conference at the Chevron plant, Wiley Davis, a Mira Costa junior and robotics team member, stood beside one of the team's creations, a mechanized assemblage of orange, white and blue spheres and strips.
Wiley, sporting a T-shirt in the same shades of orange and blue as his robot, shrugged off the model on display.
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"This is just the latest innovation," he said. "We have had lots of designs before this."
