The School Buzz: D3 students build motion-activated skeletons for ‘Fright Night’

Did you have a scary assignment in high school? How about one that purposely scared others?

First-year engineering students at Mesa Ridge High School are building robots so fun they're scary.

They're building motion-activated skeletons for the school's Fright Night on Saturday. It’s the first time Mesa Ridge students have tackled a project like this. It’s ambitious. It’s fun. It’s part of Project Lead The Way. And 60 students are involved, which makes sit a big team effort.

“Before I ordered anything, I had them give me feedback as to what they would like to come to life," said Bob Zanzig, the science and engineering teacher at Mesa Ridge HS. "They had to research, like, what was out in Halloween stores, or what they’ve seen in Halloween stores.”

Sierra Thompson is one of the Mesa Ridge students on the project. She said, "the most difficult thing is definitely the programming of making it move. Because programming is hard. I don’t know how people do that for a living, but it’s hard.”

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