The Phantom Mentalists, the Phoebus High School Robotics Team, has won the Xerox Creativity Award for the design of our basketball shooting mechanism at the Chesapeake Regional FIRST Robotics Competition! With 63 teams competing, there were only two engineering awards presented at the tournament!According to teacher/coordinator Don William, the team won for
"their unique engineering design of the basketball shooting mechanism incorporating four balanced springs, a machined ball cradle, and electromagnetic catch and release system."