Absurd carpools, restricted spaces and lengthy commutes were the struggles that faced the robotics team. However, this year is different. The team is making the move into the newly created Science Technology Engineering and Math, (STEM) Center, which means no more commute and plenty of room for creativity to flow.

Read more about the new RJ STEM Center here.

The robotics team has stayed out of the limelight here at Regis Jesuit. People do not know much about them or their mission. The STEM Center brings robotics into the foreground.

“It’ll allow us to have a way of more involvement here at the school,” team captain and senior at Regis Jesuit, Chris Morroni, said. “We are now more visible in the school, which means that we can get other people excited about it.”

Chris is a very active member on the robotics team and has been since his freshman year. Chris dedicates 60 hours per week during the build season and believes woking on campus will help to streamline the build process. He realizes the vast benefits of the STEM Center, which include the team’s ongoing mission.

“The team tries to stress getting robotics out there, and spreading the word of STEM,” Morroni said.

The center offers an innovative space for robotics. Before the STEM Center, students on the robotics team had to meet at an offsite location. This turned people away from the team, and made it extremely complicated to obtain new members.

“This will encourage ideas to flow through them and really inspire some hopefully great ideas that will improve the robotics team and the STEM Center at Regis Jesuit,” team member Trevor Jones said, adding that people “will want to join, because before they had to drive to a guy’s house and do the work there.”

The decrease in new members has been and is a problem for the robotics team. There is hope that the STEM Center is the solution.

“In the past robotics has had a rough time gaining new members, it has mostly been two or three people from each class that run the show. I believe this has been due to the location we previously worked at,” senior John Brock said.

The team is hopeful that the new year and location bring exciting things, as well as new enthusiastic members.

Read more about the new RJ STEM Center here.