The Steel Dragons is a U.S. FIRST team from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, PA. U.S. FIRST is a national high school robotics competition in which students, with help from local engineers, build a sophisticated robot to play a game with other robots. This competition takes place in Disneyworld at the beginning of April. The Steel Dragons are sponsored by NASA, and are advised by graduate students from CMU's Robotics Institute.

This page shows pictures of the students at CMU's Planetary Robotics Building, putting the finishing touches on the robot. Pictures of the team at the New Jersey Regional compeition will be coming soon. (Disney pictures too!)
 

Finishing the robot at CMU


Tanya is working hard on the robot.

The Robot lifts a ball up high!

Montira drilling the robot frame

The advisors watch as the robot is tested. The big robot in the background is Nomad.

Joe (Allderdice teacher), Steve (CMU advisor), and Tim (Allderdice student) working on a tricky problem...

Dawn and Montira building their roller mechanism

Constructing the robot frame... there was a long way to go.

Everyone is huddled up

Greg adjusts the ball lift.

John and Ellie with the cage roller.

The robot sucks up a ball.

The robot fully extended. This picture serves as record that the shoulder did actually work once.