Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >