Ben Howard of Showtime! Talks About March NHRL on Outside of the Box

About this episode

Ben Howard discusses his team's success at the March NHRL event with host Christine G.

For this episode, I sat down with Ben Howard of Team WPI whose robot Showtime! went all the way at the March NHRL event to claim the 3lb division Golden Dumpster. He spoke about exceeding his expectations at this event and we went through every fight including the very close final versus Chainsaw Kitty.

People in this episode

Host: Christine G

Guest: Ben Howard

Topics covered

• robotics
• competition
• NHRL
• interviews
• technology
• robot battles

Keywords

• robot
• Showtime!
• NHRL
• Chainsaw Kitty
• competition
• 3lb division
• Golden Dumpster

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Team WPI, Showtime!

Books & works: Chainsaw Kitty

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