Sixteen Engineering II students represented John Bapst recently in the Matthew R. Simmons Windstorm Challenge, held at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine. In this challenge, students built prototype floating wind turbine platforms and test them in UMaine's W2 Read More
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John Bapst is in the news: View the story of Robotics and the “Flat Earth Society”
John Bapst is in the news! Congratulations, Shannon Murphy '23, Samantha Ismail '23, Julianna Clark '24, and faculty coach Mr. Mike Murphy, as they prepare for the VEX Robotics World Championship next month in Dallas, Texas. View the story by wabi/5 here. Read More
John Bapst and the University of Maine’s “Windstorm Challenge”
Students with Mr. Michael Dudley's Engineering II class recently completed their first "Windstorm Challenge" tests at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center's Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab, in preparation for competition in the Simmons Windstorm Challenge on May 13, Read More
On to the World Championship: Robotics at John Bapst
Continuing their winning tradition, John Bapst’s "Flat Earth Society", this year an all-female robotics team comprised of Samantha Ismail ‘23, Shannon Murphy ‘23, and Julianna Clark ‘24, competed successfully at a February competition in Monmouth, Maine. It spoke of bigger things to come. Only the Read More
Amber Stokes ’22 attends the Keller BLOOM Program at Bigelow Laboratory
Amber Stokes '22 recently participated in the very selective 32nd Annual Keller BLOOM Program at Bigelow Laboratory in East Boothbay, Maine. As written on the laboratory's website, "Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is an independent, nonprofit research institute located in East Boothbay, Read More
View the Mid-Atlantic Showcase Robotics Competition; UPDATE: John Bapst won the tournament!
The Mid-Atlantic Showcase Robotics Competition is attended by many of the top teams in the Eastern United States. John Bapst has sent its best team, 2142E, down to compete in Manassas, Virginia to represent both John Bapst and the State of Maine. This is the first in-person event one of our teams Read More
John Bapst robotics continues its stellar performance
This season has been a difficult one for many robotics teams around the state, the nation and the world. Most seasons involve a large number of in-person, face-to-face competition. Each year there is a different game objective to accomplish, and teams all around the world dedicate their afternoons, Read More
A busy season with John Bapst Robotics
John Bapst Robotics teams have been meeting actively, both online and in person when able, since the start of May. Team 2142E gathered on Zoom to plan and build their first robot with the new competition challenge (Change-up, a fast paced tic tac toe type of game). By the start of the Read More
Rion George Joshy ’21 competes in international Breakthrough Junior Challenge
We wish John Bapst student Rion George Joshy '21 the very best as he, with his video (above), competes in the international academic competition, the 2020 Breakthrough Junior Challenge. His presentation is titled, “Relative Time for a Moving Body (Special Relativity)". The Breakthrough Junior Read More
VEX Worlds competition: The furthest a John Bapst team has climbed
John Bapst Robotics team 2142E is back from the VEX Worlds competition with hard won experience. They also have the advantage going into next year with a quarterfinals competition against world class robotics teams under their belt - the furthest a John Bapst team has climbed through the ranks of Read More