Six weeks of building comes down to a set of three days. Boston Regional is the competition that 2043 and the Wentworth mentors competed in. The work that the 11 students did during those six weeks all came down to 9 matches split between 2 days. The Wentworth mentors including myself were out there helping the students in whatever way possible. During the competition we had problems with the robot however we were able to fix all the problems that occurred. The high school students had a fantastic time and I personally could not have asked for a better group of students for this competition. These students worked so hard this year and did so well.
These students both at competition and during build season blew me away with how much they were willing to listen and how hard they work. During my eight years doing this competition I have never seen a team willing to work this hard and so proud of their work. These students after the 9 matches finished 7th out of 53 teams. Both the mentors and students were ecstatic after every match as we saw ourselves within the top 15 after every match. Sometimes we were as high as 3rd and as low as 15th. The adversity these students went through not only were other people impressed (mentors and teams that have done this competition as long as I have) but they should be proud of what they accomplish at the competition and what they learned.
After last year major problems that I had with my old team I wasn’t sure if it was worth coming back for another year. These 11 students changed that all around and I hope that in the coming years I can teach these students as well as other at that school about different systems of a robot, gracious professionalism, team work, and budgeting. The students I worked with may not no it but they learned so much this year, will back even better next year and they should truly be proud of what they did this year.
There were students from JDOB that were not part of the main 11 of the team but showed up to root on their classmates. I am hoping that in this next upcoming year we will see some of these students join in and help out with the building of the robot. I am hoping over the next couple of years to build this team and get as many students interested in engineering and technology as possible.
I know I am proud to be apart of 2043 and these students and I know the mentors are as well. The five mentors from Wentworth, the reason we mentor are for the students (especially the 11 this year) and that was definitely shown this year. Thank you students for making this year the best ever (so far).
WHO ARE WE!!!!! 2043
Here are just some quick glimpses of this years competition for our team.








