High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics Competition

An anonymous writer submitted a story saying "A bunch of bright high school kids from Carl Hayden Highschool beat out MIT in a Marine Technology Center's Robotics competition. Here are additional details of the competition."

Look out!!

[beatdown]

Here come the Aquadorks!

Scholarships?

[carninja]

I think MIT should be sending these kids scholarships right about now if they wanna save any sort of face.

explanation

[mmkkbb]

MIT students have access to higher quality chemistry supplies anf facilities to synthesize their preferred extracurricular activity accelerators.

not surprised

[Anonymous Coward]

"High School Kids Beat MIT..."

I would think the MIT crowd would be used to beatings by now.

Yeah but this is college...

[rawyin]

I mean seriously, how many marshmellows can these kids shove up their nostrils?

Lets do some real college science. MIT is too busy building the worlds tallest and most complex beer bong. Now THAT'S cool.

Tough Competition

[aendeuryu]

Hey, you can't blame MIT for getting intimidated. These kids sound rough. Cape Fear Community College came in third.

Re:Start making them citizens

[otis wildflower]

This would be great iff we could boot ignorant, dimwitted, lazy, and whiny native borns at the same time..

(then again, maybe I shouldn't ask too loud ;)

Best Quote from the Article

[cOdEgUru]

Swean (head of the Navy's Ocean Engineering and Marine Systems program) nodded. He eyed their rudimentary flip chart.

"Why don't you have a PowerPoint display?" he asked.

"PowerPoint is a distraction," Cristian replied. "People use it when they don't know what to say."

"And you know what to say?"

"Yes, sir."

DAMN!!! :)

Forget ExxonMobil

[The-Bus]

These kids should be sponsored by O.B.!

Re:Yeah but this is college...

[garcia]

I can see the magnetic bumper sticker now:

My ex-gang member high-school electronics whiz can beat your MIT graduate student in Battle Bots!

Re:Competition scores

[uberjon]

They where the kids that wrote all those reports that you outsourced...

MIT on a downward spiral???

[Anonymous Coward]

First a novelty alarm clock. Then a high school ass whooping. What's next??? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/ 25/0017259&tid=222&tid=137 [slashdot.org]

Re:Doesn't say much for education

[B3ryllium]

they have never done anything really stupid, for no reason, just because friends were doing it too.

That's not true - they went to MIT. ;-)

Re:Doesn't say much for education

[Darby]

Although I don't use (and in some cases understand :-) half the stuff they taught me, I feel like the act of trying to understand it increased my ability to understand a larger range of concepts - kind of like working out to increase muscle capacity.

Exactly.
I got my degree in math, and I doubt I'll use the fact that I not only understand, but can prove
The generalized Stokes Theorem [planetmath.org].

However, the fact that I can read a sentence consisting of primarily goofy symbols even worse that the linked one makes me an excellent Perl programmer ;-)

Re:Doesn't say much for education

[badmammajamma]

I thought the point was to learn how to use p2p software?

Re:Living in a factory...

[karnal]

po'

Come on, man! If you can't afford the o and the r, why are you splurging on an apostrophe?

Think of the children!

Re:Doesn't say much for education

[Anonymous Coward]

I got my degree in math, and I doubt I'll use the fact that I not only understand, but can prove The generalized Stokes Theorem

Hey, let's talk about you and how great you are!