Grafton High’s newest winner is a robot named Aaravos

A group of Grafton High School juniors and their robot, Aaravos, are getting on a plane Monday to compete in one of the largest robotics competition in the world: the CREATE Foundation U.S. Open Robotics Championship.

Juniors Cole Anderson, Devin Dunn, Bryan Romeo and Amruth Seetharaman are only the third team Grafton High has fielded. Coach Patti Keller, GHS’ librarian, started the program with grant funding after attending an adult robotics camp at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

“Our first year we attended one competition,” Keller said.  “Our second year was amazing and our team qualified for the Southern New England regionals and the US Open.

“Then Covid hit and we didn’t have robotics for two years.”

But as students returned to the classroom last year, so did robotics. Students received their challenge in May and competitions began in November.

Team 58566A won the Design Award at a competition in Framingham this fall. That qualified them to go to the Southern New England regionals and the U.S. Open, which takes place over four days in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 

The team won the Create award at the southern New England regionals, qualifying them to go to VEX Worlds in Dallas the first weekend of May. 

“VEX world is the big competition and we are super psyched to go!” Keller said.

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