History

- Established: MHS 2011 -
The Marion Area Robotics Society is a high school club with 3 teams. Since 2011, MARS Robotics has grown thanks to Mark Wallace & Andrew Margherio starting from a small group of individuals in a small classroom setting. Later in 2015 a complete infrastructure overhaul at our local high school provided us a stem lab with more room. The stem lab is a designated area where students can work on their robots. Mentorship & Community Involvement is constantly growing, along with past students coming in and volunteering as alumni. MARS Robotics is a strong extracurricular activity at Marion High School that teaches students engineering, code, and good sportsmanship.

Transistor Titans

FTC Team 5187

Members

Titan Team Members

Nick

Builder and Notebook

A Junior 3rd year in robotics. Involved in latin club and computer club.

Will

Builder and Notebook

A Senior 4th year in robotics. Involved in marching band and scholer bowl for 4 years.

Josh

Builder and Notebook

A Senior 4th year in robotics. Involved in wildcats track and field, national honors society, math honors society, spanish honors society, model un, & friends in christ.


Zach

Programmer

A Junior 3rd year in robotics. Involved in math club.

Ralph

Builder

A Sophomore 2nd year in robotics.

Lochlan

Builder

A Sophomore 2nd year in robotics.


Liam

Builder and Notebook

A Freshman 1st year in robotics. Involved in marching band.

Chris

Builder and Notebook

A Freshman 1st year in robotics. Involved in marching band and student council.

Anthony

Programmer

A junior 1st year in robotics. Involved in video game design and mobile apps development.

Awards

Our Previous Awards & Accomplishments!

Bowled Over (2011-2012)

INSPIRE Award (Cape Girardeau, MO Qualifier)

Rockwell-Collins Innovate Award (Rolla, MO State)

Ring It Up (2012-2013)

Red Division Finalist (Cape Girardeau, MO Qualifier)

STEM Award, presented by US Air Force for Excellence in Robotics (Rolla, MO State)

FTC Block Party (2013-2014)

Rockwell-Collins Innovate Award (Marion, IL Qualifier)

Finalist Alliance Captain (Rolla, MO Qualifier)

2nd Place Overall (Rolla, MO Qualifier)

Cascade Effect (2014-2015)

2nd Place Think Award (St. Louis, MO Qualifier)

2nd Alliance Captain (Cape Girardeau, MO Qualifier)

3rd Place Overall (Cape Girardeau, MO Qualifier)

3rd Place Control Award (Rolla, MO Qualifier)




Community Outreach

MARS teams make a difference in the community of Marion, Illinois. Ways the teams have reached out include:

• Robotics Summer Camp at the Marion Carnegie Library, 2012-2016
• HackSI – Weekend long “hack-a-thon” – Team members volunteer, teaching others about robotics/engineering
• Robotics demonstration at VA Hospital
• Black Diamond Harley Davidson Trunk-or-Treat – robotics demo
• Robotics Demonstration at SIU Solar Eclipse Day

• Angel Tree participant – made possible by team member donations
• Coach’s Boards – designed and built wire and controller managers (coach’s boards) to donate to rookie teams
• Mentor to FLL (First Lego League) team
• Prepare and donate goodie bags with emergency robotics “quick fixes” to hand out at competitions
• MHS Homecoming Parade – generating interest in robotics with float and mini WALL-E bots built by team


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