Kalamunda Senior High School
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12 Cotherstone Road
Kalamunda WA 6076
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Email: Kalamunda.shs@education.wa.edu.au
Phone: 08 9293 6400

FIRST® Robotics Competition

In the FIRST® Robotics Competition teams design, program, and build a robot starting with a standard kit of parts and common set of rules to play in a head-to-head challenge. In the 2023 theme of Charged Up two competing alliances process game pieces to bring energy to their community by retrieving their game pieces from substations and scoring it into the grid. Human players provide the game pieces to the robots from the substations. In the final moments of each match, alliance robots race to dock or engage with their charge station!

In March, Team '9191 | My Chemical Robots' travelled to Wollongong in New South Wales to compete in this year’s Southern Cross Regional event. Our travel involved 2 planes flights, 4 train journeys, 8 elevators and we lost count of how many kilometres of walking… all while transporting our robot and tools. During the qualifications matches we placed 12th out of 38 teams. This led to us becoming an alliance captain for the playoffs during which our alliance tied for 7th place.

As a team we were awarded the very prestigious Rookie All-Star Award. This award celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology. Our team captain, Toby Trent won the coveted Dean’s List Finalist Award. This award recognises the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding secondary school students.

Through our Rookie All-star Award our team has qualified to attend the 2023 FIRST® Championship in Houston, Texas! I am so very proud of this amazing and inspiring bunch of humans!

Amber Bullock
STEM Teacher