Team 585 Chili Cook-off

FIRST Team 585 pose with their nearly completed robot.

NASA Engineer Mark Manglesdorf presented a program on the X59, a needle-nose experimental aircraft being tested to reduce the intensity of the sonic boom, a necessary characteristic for any plane developed to travel cross country at supersonic speeds.

Groups of students and parents examine FIRST Team 585's new robot, soon to be taken into competition.

Mason Whitney, president of the THS Robotics Club explains the problems the team must solve with their robot.