(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A 10-year-old from Geneva, Sawyer Rinn, is the national champion in the Robot Olympiad, and his hometown honored him this week with “Sawyer Rinn Day.”
At the Geneva City Council meeting this week, fourth-grader Rinn showed a video that explained what his robot could do on a tabletop field.
“And it did all that in under two minutes.”
Sawyer won the national title in his division, beating 21 others in his age group, and now he goes on to Germany to compete in the international robotics competition.
Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns made a special designation for Oct. 18: Sawyer Rinn Day.
“And I hereby request you to come to my house and fix our oven, microwave,” Burns said.
Sawyer is a student at Western Avenue Elementary School, and his coach William Wong says Sawyer is his eighth national robotics champion.
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