INDIANAPOLIS -- If you attend Indy Eleven games at Lucas Oil Stadium, keep your eye out for a robot!
It’s not one of the players, but part of the halftime entertainment. The robot is the brainchild of the students on the robotics team at Avon High School.
Their T-shirt shooting cannon “bot” was introduced at a game in early June and will launch T-shirts to the fans at all home games this season.
Recent Avon grad and club member Devon Rohrer and his dad are huge soccer fans and approached the team about using the robot, and they got the gig.
"We thought this was a great opportunity to add a fun and exciting element to our halftime Honda T-shirt toss, while also highlight a group of exceptionally talented students," James Fields, Indy Eleven Operations Coordinator said. "We have a lot of young fans, and we hope it shows a side of education that is fun and exciting and can help build their interest in the science and technology field at a young age.”
The students operate the robot, which zips down the field shooting off a total of 6 shirts. It has a large air tank and 3 cannons, one T-shirt at a time per cannon. The cannon was developed 7 years ago when the team was formed and each year the students add to it to make it better. Rohrer said the team had about 20 to 30 students when it started and now holds steady at about 60.
Rohrer said it is a great opportunity to generate awareness about their team, called the Roborioles, a spin on the school mascot, the Orioles.
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