MARION, Ohio â This yearâs Trine University combat robot team faced a difficult choice: whether to take their senior design project to the competition it was designed for, or participate in Commencement.
The team found out the National Robotics Challenge was scheduled for May 8, the same day as commencement, about a month before both events were scheduled to occur.
âWe were really conflicted,â said Devin Britt, a mechanical engineering major from Millersburg, Ohio, who was part of the team. âWe really wanted to see our senior design project through to the end, but we had worked hard for four years to graduate. My parents were coming to commencement.â