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Tappan Zee students present AI recycling cart and bus RFID plan; SoBots robotics team returns from Worlds with awards
Summary
Students from Tappan Zee High School showcased a prototype AI recycling cart and a pilot RFID-based bus-tracking system and reported robotics team SoBots (team 6911) successes and finances at the May 13 board meeting.
Students at Tappan Zee High School presented several STEM projects to the South Orangetown Board of Education on May 13, demonstrating an AI-assisted recycling cart, a bus-efficiency plan using AI routing and RFID tracking, and updates from the SoBots robotics team after competing at the FIRST World Championship in Houston.
Joey Won, a senior, described a prototype cart that uses a neural network to classify trash. He told the board the team's original model reached about 95% accuracy but ran slowly on a small computer; after applying quantization, pruning and distillation techniques the students said they improved a downscaled model from roughly 71% back to about 94% while maintaining acceptable inference time.
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