Staff Report
DRIPPING SPRINGS - Graduating seniors of the two UIL Competition robotics teams at Dripping Springs High School (DSHS) were recognized on Tuesday, May 17 with an Engineering Signing Day.
The seniors were team members on either the Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) robotics team or the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 6357 Spring Konstant team. Both teams competed for UIL State Championships, in the fall and spring respectively.
Robotics engineering students have differentiated themselves from their high school peers by taking engineering knowledge and skills acquired in high school and applying them in designing, constructing and operating complex robots in state and world competitions, according to a news release. Robotics team sports are unique in that all participants are able to eventually go ‘professional’ in any of a number of engineering disciplines.
These seniors also committed to continue their engineering studies at the collegiate or university level.
BEST team mates included Noah Hill, who will major in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University, Jackson Householder, who will attend Embry-Riddle University and major in Aeronautical Engineering, Addison Hall, who will major in Mechanical Engineering first at Austin Community College and then Texas A&M University and Hashim Aziz, who will be pursuing a major in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. FIRST FRC team mates from the Spring Konstant included Jason Agnew, who will major in Engineering at Texas A&M University and Vivek Ramadhar, who will be attending the University of Texas at Austin and will major in Physics.
