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8th Grade Orientation

Enthusiastic 8th graders visited the Shelton High School Thursday, January 12th , 2012. Many different clubs set up booths in the main lobby, with interactive displays and posters, encouraging the incoming class to join their club. Team 230 showcased our hard work by driving last year’s robot and showing our team spirit. We displayed trophies from the past couple of years and gave out team buttons and brochures. There were many people interested in team 230 and intrigued by our robot. Hopefully we... Read More

2012 Kickoff

FIRST Team 230, the Gaelhawks, headed into another exciting season with a thrilling kickoff on January 7, 2012. Students, mentors, and alumni gathered to watch the annual webcast. The anticipation rose as we waited for this year’s game to be revealed. Finally, the moment came. They announced the game to us as Rebound Rumble.             The goal of Rebound Rumble is to score as many points as possible by getting foam basketballs through one of four of your alliance’s hoops. The hoops are at... Read More

Gaelhawks Spread Pep With T-shirt Cannon!

  The Gaelhawks showed their school spirit at the Shelton High spring pep rally this April.  Team Captain Kelli Freer demonstrated the prototype robot, by driving it around the gym with its mecanum drive.  Then, the Gaelhawks got the entire school excited about science and technology by launching shirts from a t-shirt cannon, which was built and programmed by the team.  The robot, cheered on by the entire student body, blasted shirts across the gym, into the bleachers.  The Gaelhawks recieved... Read More

Shelton High School Robotics Team Earn Prestigious Award

Gaelhawks invited to national championship competition Staff report SHELTON - The 2011 Northeast Utilities FIRST Connecticut Regional Robotics Competition was held this past weekend at the CT Convention Center.  Teams from Brazil, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,  New Jersey and New York provided robots for the competition, in which the game Logo Motion was played. The game consists of two competing alliances on a flat field.  Each alliance consisted of three robots which need to pick... Read More

Northeast Utilities Connecticut Regional Robotics Competition

FIRST Robotics Team 230 from Shelton High School in Shelton, Connecticut recently competed very successfully at the Northeast Utilities Connecticut Regional in Hartford, CT at the Connecticut Convention Center. The team, who had previously competed at the WPI Regional in Worcester, MA came in to the regional confident of their ability to compete and perform. And perform they did. The Gaelhawks, sporting their bright orange color and their enthusiasm for their work held strong against some of... Read More

WPI Regional

FIRST Team 230, the Gaelhawks had their first official completion of the season this past weekend as they traveled to Worcester, Massachusetts for the WPI Regional. A small group of kids and mentors drove up Thursday morning for the start of practice rounds and to set up the pit. Teams from all over New England were present, as well as teams from Hawaii, Britain, and Brazil. Following the long afternoon of matches was the arrival of the last students, and the team spent the rest of the night bonding... Read More

2011 WPI Regional

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Kickoff 2011

Team 230 got off to a great start Saturday January 8, 2011 with this season’s well anticipated kick-off. High school students, mentors, volunteers, and parents were in attendance as they spent the morning watching the live webcast of the FRC kick-off. It featured guests such as Will.I.Am, from the musical group Black Eyed Peas, and of course the founder of FIRST itself, Dean Kamen. Finally, after months of waiting, the 2011 game was revealed as Logo Motion.Logo Motion is played with tubes shaped... Read More

Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce Honors Students

The Chamber Presented a special School Business Partnership Award to the five students from Shelton High School whose science experiment was chosen to fly on the final mission of space shuttle Endeavour in 2011. The students are Leann Misencik, Kayla Russo, Jason Shnipes, Omar Sobh, and James Szabo, who call their experiment "Development of Prokaryotic Cell Walls in Microgravity." Photo by Wayne Ratzenberger Read More

Students experiment picked for 2011 space shuttle flight

Leann Misencik, Kayla Russo, Jason Shnipes, Omar Sobh, and James Szabo are one step closer to having their science project launched into space. They just have one more test to pass. The Shelton High School students beat 19 other teams of students from Shelton Intermediate School and Shelton High School in the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) to have their science experiment on the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour. The winning experiment is “Development of Prokaryotic Cell... Read More