Thanks to Emily Yewell Volin for the above photo and information below about an East Cobb Robotics team that will be spending the winter break week this week getting ready for state competition on Saturday:
East Cobb Robotics FIRST Tech Challenge Team 11096 is excited to announce their advancement to the State level of competition. During a League Championship tournament, the 15-member community team, comprised of middle and high school students, earned the first place Think award, an honor to their engineering design process throughout this season.
The team was also awarded the 2nd-place Inspire award, celebrating them as ambassadors and role models for FIRST, were finalists for the Motivate, Design and Rockwell Collins Innovate awards and were the first pick for the competition’s 3rd alliance finalist round of competition.
ECR FTC 11096 will compete at the state level competition in Georgia on Saturday, February 24. The team is proudly coached by Mrs. Kimberly Clark, 6th grade math teacher at Dodgen Middle School, and Dr. Curtis Volin, Quantum Systems Division Chief at Georgia Tech Research Institute. East Cobb Robotics FTC 11096 is sponsored by General Electric.
All FIRST robotics events are free and open to the public and the State Championship will be broadcast via live feed. For more information visit: http://gafirst.org/ftc/ and http://gafirst.org/ftc/first-tech-challenge-live-stream.
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