This fall the boys were invited to join other homeschoolers on a robotics team program sponsored by FIRST and LEGO. They met every week to build a robot and work on a research project. We took 3 teams to Mountain Home, Arkansas, for competition on December 4th.
We brought home trophies for Robot Performance, Robot Design and Quality Design. Our teams were also finalists in the award categories of Innovative Design, Champion’s Award, Quality Design, Gracious Professionalism, Programming, Project Research Quality, Judge’s Award and Robot Design.
Each team was required to do a research project on a body system and how biomedical engineering is used to help in that area. At competition, the team presented the project to judges. The teams chose vision, lungs and voice for their projects.
In the Robot Performance Competition, our teams placed 4th, 5th and 16th out of 35 teams. One of our teams went on to win the single elimination competition.
I forgot to take pictures of the robots, but if I can get one from someone else, I will post it.
1 comment:
Wonderful! Thanks for posting. I don't dare tell me boys as they would be completely JEALOUS!
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