Autumn Years Winter 2023/24

Robots Reflect Students’ Hearts and Souls

By Emily Kratzer Jack Teadore and the Pi-oneers

The machine rumbles across the floor, its buzz ing parts turning and its lights flashing as it tackles a task. Students intently watch it while directing its movements with radio controllers. Dozens of stu dents known as Pi-oneers poured their hearts and souls into building this new, competition-ready machine. Each year, the process starts the first Saturday in January.

The team when it won the 2017 world championship in St. Louis.

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AUTUMN YEARS I WINTER 2023/24