"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
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All Systems Go!
FIRST Tech Challenge 2019 features a planetary rover game. Click the link to check it out!
Explore Rover Rockus
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The Widening Pool of Astronaut Support
Susan Kilrain continues her support of Eagle Robotics with another round of "Ask the Astronaut" Q&A. Answers to questions from FLL Jr., FLL, and FTC continue to inform and inspire team members at all levels. Read "Ask An Astronaut" Q&A
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On October 21st, NASA Astronaut Colonel Shane Kimbrough added himself to the ranks of mentors for Eagle Robotics. Col. Kimbrough, with whom Eagle Robotics has a seasoned relationship that dates back to before his ISS mission, offered to mentor via Skype and/or in a personal meeting in the near future. | |
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When added to Hoot Gibson's contribution, we now count three astronauts among our mentors! | |
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Aluminum Recycling
Eagle Robotics oversaw another night of recycling at the last home game for football on October 19. In its ongoing quest to support Habitat for Humanity through this initiative by Novelis, team members collected aluminum cans from the bins placed around the stadium.
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Community Outreach
Robots at a football game? Yep!
On October 19th, Eagle Robotics Teams 11364 and 7373 provided an Interactive Robot Exhibit at the Space Night themed tailgate party for the Mount Paran vs. Saint Francis football game. The teams set up an interactive booth displaying two programmed Baxter robots and last year's competition robots. This event allowed the team to display the Eagle Robotics program for the entire school, and encourage students of all ages to acquaint themselves with FIRST and STEM.
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Connecting with Engineers
On Tuesday, October 23, a group of Mount Paran STEM Students, including members of Teams 7373 and 11364, visited CKS Packaging, Inc.. The COO of the company, Drew Sewell, recounted the history of the company, and their core value of putting God first. The students then visited Studio G, where CKS products are designed, and finally toured the factory floor. Thank you CKS!
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Supporting the next generation of FIRST.
FLL Jr.
On October 9th and 16th Coaches Quarles and Smith, respectively, visited Eagle Robotics FLL Jr. to talk with the kids about a variety of topics. Coach Quarles spoke about various characteristics of the moon such as what it is made of, how far it is from the Earth, and how big it is. Coach Smith talked about the STEM programs in the high school, such as Engineering classes and FTC teams.
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FLL
Members from Team 7373 and 11364 continue to visit the three FLL teams in the middle school and helped them with their projects and robots.Grant Terry from 11364 is shown assisting 6th grade with a fork-lift mechanism. Jack Baute from 7373 spoke with the eighth-grade team about their “Space Cast” project idea, and Grayson Epps from 7373 talked with the seventh-grade team about their robot design and game strategy. Recently, almost all the FLL teams have achieved scoring capabilities..
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Results from Meet #1: Saturday, Oct. 20th | |
11364
Team 11364 Diamond Plate worked extremely hard in preparation for this league meet. The robot performed admirably in competition. At the end of the day team 11364 came out first in points and won the league meet! While in the pits, they were able to help a team in the Innovation League (Forsyth County) with programming systems difficulties.
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7373
Team 7373 ran into some difficulties with their hook they use to get onto the lander with and ended up having to manufacture multiple new hooks throughout the day. However, team members Luke Spinetto and Ben Mueller were able to help other teams at the meet with their coding so that they would be able to compete, receiving accolades from other FIRST mentors and league coordinators
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Volunteers - The Life Blood of the League | |
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FIRST Tech Challenge and the Etowah League exist entirely on volunteer support. Without it, the league simply will not exist. Each team is requested to provide a volunteer for each meet. Some volunteer roles are technical in nature, others are not. Most volunteer roles require online registration and online training. A volunteer role can be filled by anyone willing to take the time to learn what to do. It can be a parent, relative or sponsor. Our team likes to lead by example. Please take a few minutes and click here to find out what is needed to volunteer. Thank you! | |
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Coaches' Corner
our teams do well. they do good, too.
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For all the technical expertise Eagle Robotics team members pick up while participating with the team, we celebrate them the most when they grow in the core value statements of our team. This last weekend I witnessed those values in action, as Ben and Luke from Team 7373 took advantage of an opportunity to serve others. But for what these two young men did, three teams would not have been able to compete at Meet #1. They spent a lot of time at the league meet, teaching, coaching, and debugging other teams' programming issues. For that they received commendations from the League Coordinators, from a retired FIRST Senior Mentor, and from their coaches and Head of School. 11364 also helped a team with software issues, allowing communication between the onboard phone and driver station. Truly "It's not all about us" is not just a slogan, but a rule these team members live out. We're all proud of you Luke, Ben, and Steven! | |
STEM Workshop with Cub Scout Pack 2269 (10/29)
On October 29th, Eagle Robotics team members will present A STEM and robotics workshop to the 50 scouts that make up Cub Scout Pack 2269, to assist them in fulfillment of the Robotics Bear Scout Elective.
Plant Tour at Win-Tech, Inc. (11/9)
Team members will have the opportunity to visit Win-Tech, Inc., a local precision machine shop, to get a first-hand look at the precision machinery and techniques involved in manufacturing.
League Meets #2 and #3 (11/10)
Eagle Robotics will compete against other teams in the Etowah league in a double-meet on November 10 at Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. (Meet #2 has been rescheduled from 10/30 to this new date.) Our league needs volunteers for our upcoming meets! Find out how to volunteer here.
Outreach at Ridenour Adventure Center After-school Program (11/15)
On November 15, members of High School Eagle Robotics will go to the Ridenour Adventure Center to give the Ridenour students a live robot demonstration and robotics/STEM workshop
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All newsletters for the 2018-19 season are archived here. | |
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