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Interested in being a part of R-P Robotics?  We will be meeting during the Spring and Summer to prepare for the fall competition season.  There are many opportunities for students to get hands-on learning skills all year long.  If interested, please complete the following Google Form, so that we can start getting information out to you!

R-P Robotics Participation Form

RP Robotics - Vex and SeaPerch

During the 2021-2022 Robotics season, R-P Robotics found Middle School students competing in VEX and in SeaPerch.  Travelling to Jenison, students found the competition to be tough, but battled through to place high in ranking.  Two of our teams ganged up in the final championship rounds, only to come up short by points in the finals seconds of their match.  Students did receive the "Judges Award", which is a pretty high honor that our students should be proud of!

For SeaPerch, our Middle School team had an excellent showing, and qualified for Nationals.  So, we are headed back to Maryland in June!  Our HS team might be eligible for the wild card slot, and we are hopeful that they can join the MS'ers at this event!  We'll update when we know more.

Thank you to our current sponsors:

Lakewinds Chiropractic
CentralTechs, LLC
Comfort Inn, Whitehall

If you would like to be a sponsor, and have your business logo appear on the national stage, please email Mr. Ross for information!  All donations are tax deductible and funds go directly to helping offset costs for students (this includes registration fees, travel, build materials, and more).

R-P Sits out the 2020-2021 Land Robotics, but success is found underwater (kinda)

Due to COVID restrictions, R-P Robotics was unable to participate in the 2020-2021 VEX Robotics competition.  We had field parts and kits and we were ready to go, but we were unable to have any after school/club activities in our buildings.  We look forward to the 2021-2022 season!  If you are interested in participating, please see the link above to sign up; and we will contact you.

Though the land robots were tabled, the Underwater group was able to do some 'stuff'.  As their competition was canceled last season, we were able to allow that team to 'run' their ROV from last season, this season.  As we prepared to go to U of M, we had unfortunate news that the Regionals were canceled once again.  However, the engineering notebook, team interviews, and Real-World applications would go forward.

R-P Middle School students had two teams this season.  At regionals, we had one group place first with their engineering notebook, first in their team interview, and second in the real-world application. In addition, our second group (with a student working by himself) places sixth overall.  With the first place team qualifying for the Inter/Nationals, students had the opportunity to interview via Google Meet with Judges from RoboNation; had their engineering notebooks critiqued by judges from all over the world; and had their Real-World application opened to the public for judging.  

These students were able to place 2nd with their Real-World Application.

A Huge Thank You to our only sponsor this season : Sport House Athletic Center!  We would be unable to test without them!!  Please support them, as they support us!

R-P Robotics would like to thank our 2019 Sponsors for your help in getting to where we are!

Please support these facilities as much as they support us!  We would not be where we are without them!!!

The National Bank of all of our family and friends!!
	Northern Machine Tool		Norton Pines Athletics
	Lakewinds Chiropractic		Hometown Pharmacy
	A million pop cans!		Marks Orthodontics
	Reeths-Puffer Schools		CentralTechs, LLC
Walker Family Foundation		A&C Machine and Tool Co.

 Reeths-Puffer HS and Intermediate head to Nationals in Underwater Robotics

On April 13th, students participated in SeaPerch Underwater Robotics, ran by Clinton High School at the University of Michigan.  Three teams were able to participate, one being a 'test' run for a couple of Intermediate (5th grade) Students.  Our HS teams did extremely well in both the challenge and obstacle course.  Our open class finished second in the challenge and fourth overall.  Our newly formed stock division team completed their runs very successfully, and will be awesome next year!  And, our MS division team was able to zoom through the obstacle course with an impressive time, and were able to complete the challenge faster then their MS competitors.

As a second runner up, the HS team was invited to Nationals along with the MS team.  They will be headed to the University of Maryland on June 1st and 2nd.

Reeths-Puffer Intermediate and Elementary Students Succeed at the Grandville Robotics Competition!

On January 5, 2019, RPI and RP Elementary/Central students competed in VEX IQ Robotics in Grandville Michigan.  While the success is the learning that is happening, one of the three teams scored a 'Create Award'.  This is the second year in a row for our students winning this award!  

Thank you to our sponsors: Lakewinds Chiropractic, Meijer of North Muskegon, Chemical Bank, Home Town Pharmacy, Gordon Food Service, Great Lakes Physical Therapy, CentralTechs, and all of our Grandparents, Parents, and Friends!  

	Friend, Family, Parents, and Grandparents

Our students traveled to UMass Dartmouth for the International SeaPerch competition from May 31st to June 3rd.  There was a ton of things to see and learn, and our students ended in third place in the Challenge!  Congrats to our students and a BIG thank you to our sponsors!

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Congratulations to our students who participated in this years SeaPerch competition.  We fielded three teams this year, in both the open and stock classes.  While our stock class ROVs performed flawlessly, the field was packed!  In the open class, students also faced fierce competition.  However, our open class ROV placed first in the challenge, the obstacle course, and place first overall!  This allowed our students to be qualified for Nationals (for the second year in a row!)!!!  Congrats to these students for their hard work and creativity!  

On January 6th, 2018, the R-P robotics students were able to compete again with their VEX IQ robot in Grandville.  Students had worked out their autonomous code, and things were much smoother... now that we know what to expect at these competitions!

Students ended up 11th overall, which is pretty good considering this our first year!  Cannot wait to see what these student accomplish in years to come!

On December 9th, 2017 Reeths-Puffer Students participated at the Jenison VEX IQ Robotics Challenge.  While a faulty Gyro messed with their autonomous runs, our students represented and did an awesome job.  Students received the 'CREATE AWARD', which is a "Robot with a creative engineering solution".

Congrats to these young engineers; the future of R-P Robotics!

Congratulations to the Reeths-Puffer Robotics program at the latest SeaPerch competition.  Our team earned a third place score, qualifying them for the National SeaPerch Competition in Atlanta, Georgia.  Congrats, and good luck!

Reeths-Puffer JrFLL wins the "Show and Tell" award at the Caledonia Expo.  

Congrats to our young robotic students!!

Underwater Robotics

We recently traveled to Detroit for our first underwater robotics competition. R-P Students did AWESOME!! considering their only testing was in a garbage can. Where most teams were scoring 4 to 5 points average in a challenge round, our students scored 22! 

Thank you...

We would like to thank you all for your continued support of RP Robotics! Sorry that we have not been pushing the website as hard as we probably should, but we have been busy working on robots, and going to competitions. We are still alive, and still around, so do not let rumors slow you down. We are scheduled for a FULL class in the 2016 school year, which should be awesome!

In addition, we are scheduled to compete in a competition this upcoming weekend in Detroit. While we love FIRST robotics, there are other robotics programs out there... and we are venturing off to participate in one of those! 

So, good luck to our students this weekend!! And, for those of you in doubt that we still exist, I can assure you that we do! We have tried to redo this website a few times, just have not found the 'flow' that we like yet. Plus, it is not a huge priority!

4591, 4956, and 6227

Planning to compete this winter!

IL Qualifier and Grandville FLL

This was an extremely productive weekend for our FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge teams. Our FLL ended in third place, and at one point had the highest points on the field. Congrats to these fine young robot students!
Our FTC students competed their robots in Batavia, IL. Both robots were extremely impressive, with one ending up 2nd in qualifying and the other 13th. After a weird selection process, we ended up qualifying for the IL State competition to be held December 10. Congratulations to all robot students this weekend!!

FLL Team 1982 - Apollo?

Under the direction of Ms. Deibel, the RP FLL Team is back in full swing. With this year's competition revolving around food safety, our young engineers have already visited several exciting companies to learn what it takes to keep us healthy.

Team 2645 - PowerSurge (retired)

Now that we have two teams, a new group of students, a new program, a new outlook, and a fresh start, the PowerSurge name is going to be retired. So look out for to Reeths-Puffer Robotics as one team with two sub-teams. There will be many changes to the website, team designs, and team philosophies. Last year, we proved that the new program and new 'way of doing business' works for us. We cannot wait to see what the future holds for Reeths-Puffer Robotics!!

Bowled Over!

Excited about the new game!

Welcome Team 4956!!

Team 4591 would like to welcome Team 4956!! With a full class next year, we'll have enough students to field TWO teams!! WAHOO! We are registered, and the Kit of Parts is on its way.

State Runner-Ups

Team 4591 competed this weekend (actually, 3/5/2011) and their finalist alliance placed second overall. While we had many frustrations from the start, and blew up a few motors, we kept it together long enough to take second. Good job goes out to our Ohio alliance partners!!

THANK YOU Cranbrook

Team 4591 would like to thank the teams from Cranbrook for allowing us to scrimmage with them this weekend! This helped us tremendously!! We were able to find bugs that we did not know that we had, resolve most of those issues, and find a broken motor!

Transition to FTC

This year, we are pleased to announce that Reeths-Puffer will be competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge. This program will allow our students to still build a robot and compete that robot, while learning their materials, tools, and processes. We will be graciously professional, while learning to work together and with other teams. This is everything that we were able to accomplish in the FRC program, while being financially responsible, being safe (not having to drive all over) during the build season, better with time management, not under a grueling time deadline, and we have the ability to work on the physical robot during robotics class. In addition, the program works around our exam schedule, school break schedule, around band and athletics, and offers quite a few other advantages. The FTC program seems to be a better fit for us, and we hope that more schools and organizations in Michigan will join this program.

PowerSurge Ignite

Congratulations to Ms. Deibel and Mr. Hodson and the RP 4th Grade FIRST Lego League team (PowerSurge Ignite) for their successful year!! We cannot wait to see what this team can do next year, and in the future!