Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] State Robotics Competition
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:05:39 -0500
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Interesting, and complex, Aram.? Looks like a worthwhile effort.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 3/18/2018 10:36 AM, Aram via LUG wrote:
> A new event here in Yakima.  Schools in Washington and some in Oregon were 
> competing for the state title of robotics champions.  I do not fully 
> understand the rules, but they would race their robots around trying to 
> pick up yellow cubes, elevate them, and place them on a large balance.  
> The team who stacked the most weight I take it would win, but there was 
> another thing going on with placing the cubes on a chamber on the ground.  
> It was interesting and the kids were having a blast.  Of course, there 
> were winners and looses, cheers and tears.  Kind of the Olympics for nerds 
> and geeks.  And I was glad to see that females were highly represented.  I 
> spend a lot of my career as a teacher trying to get girls to pursue 
> careers in science.  From the number of doctors and doctorates from my 
> students, I would say I was a partial success.
>
> So, here is the action.  These things are pretty big and very complex.  
> Probably pretty expensive.  It was good to see small schools, like Tekoa, 
> WA, with a population smaller than the enrollment in many of the other 
> school.  Yet they were competing with the best of them.
>
> Hoisting their yellow cube to the balance:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w78/rc/State+Robot+Comp-7273.jpg.html
>
> And the rest follow.  View them large if you can.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
>
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
>
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