Hillsborough Robotics Team Wins 1st Place In Championship – Hillsborough, NJ Patch

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ A first year rookie robotics team of sixth graders from Hillsborough won first place in the North NJ Regional Championship for First Lego League Robotics for their research project called Griggstown Causeway Traffic Management.

Team RoboWarriors is made up of students from Auten Rd Intermediate School including: Ahaan Chhabria, Aneesh Natu, Ashay Hajarnis, Khoi Hoang, Rohaan Shah and Shane Khurana. They are coached by first time rookie coaches.

FIRST Lego League (FLL) is a Robotics Program for kids 9 to 14 years where teams across the globe complete in four areas including: robot design, robot mission/game; core values of the league like teamwork, innovation, and discovery; and research project where the topic varies every year.

This year the topic for the competition was to identify a problem in your community, research it, find a solution and share it.

Their research research project "Griggstown Causeway Traffic Management" identified the one lane bridge traffic issue as a major problem faced by Hillsborough Township and neighboring communities.

The team did a survey of the community to identify pain points, they developed a traffic management solution using traffic lights, sensors, automation and cameras. They shared this solution and received feedback from professionals in the field.

Qualifying completions were held across the state in November in different cities. RoboWarriors competed in the BoroBlast qualifier that Hillsborough High School hosts every year.

Twenty-four teams competed at the qualifier event where Team RoboWarriors won first place for their research project. They were one of the five teams and the only one from Hillsborough to qualify for the North NJ Regional Championship held Dec. 14 and 15 at Mt Olive High School.

This is where RoboWarriors won the first place award for the research project among 80 teams at this championship.

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