Zone Zeal

The Zone Zeal was one of the few years that the team completely revamped their design mid-build season.  What started off to be a single goal capturing ball feeding robot morphed into a double goal grabbing design with two secret weapons; a fith-wheel to allow the robot with its captive goals to spin, and pneumatic activated feet to hold it in place.  Along with a philosophy of continuous improvemt at each regional 230 ended up with a highly effective goal contoling machine with a double strike end-zone scoring capability with it scissor gates.  This work paid off.  230 was an Archimedes Finalist missing Einstein by only inches with one of the end-zone scoring mechanisms.

2002 was also the first year the the team Engineering Mentors created the Engineers Scholarship Award.  This award entirely financed by the Engineers themselves with no outside donations was created to help the teams top college bound student with a monatary award of 00.

2002 Events

·         SBPLI Long Island Regional – Suffolk County Community College West Campus, Brentwood, NY March 14-16, 2002

o   Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology"

o   Regional Quarter-finalist

·         UTC New England Regional - New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT April 4-6, 2002

o   Xerox Creativity

·         The Championship Event – Walt Disneyworld Epcot, Orlando, FL April 25-27, 2002

o   Archimedes Division Finalist

Team Awards

·         Founder’s Award – Szeker Engineering, Inc.

·         Talon Award – Anne Szeker

·         Unsung Hero Award – Jen Vogl / Chris Bertuccio

·         Spirit Award – Fred Samoskevich

·         Best Driver Award – Dave Wickers

·         Engineer's Award – Dave Wickers

·         Engineers' Scholar – Chris Bertuccio

Community Events

·         2^nd Annual Gaelhawks Dinner & Auction, Shelton High School, Shelton, CT November 30, 2001

·         Relay for Life - Shelton High School, Shelton, CT June 22, 2002

Off-Season Competitions

·         3^rd Annual Bash@theBeach - Lyme-Old Lyme High School, Old Lyme, CT August 18, 2001

   o   Grace Under Pressure Award

      ·         UTC Scrimmage – Suffield High School, Suffield, CT