Winchester's Thomas Pinella Shares in Two Prizes at Robotic Competition
Boston College High School sophomore, helps team to a two-fold victory.
Thomas Pinella of Winchester, a sophomore at Boston College High School, helped his BC High Robotics team to a two-fold victory at the Boston FIRST* Regional Robotics Competition at Boston University, Agganis Arena on March 23 and 24. Tom and 14 other members of the BC High‘s newly-formed Robotics team, under the guidance of Mr. Mark Pumphrey of Rockland, faculty moderator, worked the entire year with the help of engineers and parents, to mechanically design, build, wire, and program their prized robot, ROOK. The robot was named The ROOK because, like a rook on a chess board, it can move sideways due to the swerve drive. The team burned the midnight oil in preparation for the competition. They worked right up to the midnight deadline, …
