East Cobb Robotics

East Cobb Robotics information meetings slated for August

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The East Cobb Robotics club is inviting high school students to two informational meetings next month as a new school year and a new slate of group activities are about to begin.

Here’s how the club’s getting out the word for prospective new members:East Cobb Robotics Team 11096

Are you a creative writer, web or graphic designer, social media expert or video editor?

Are you interested in community service, marketing or running a small business?

If you want to sharpen your skills and round out our successful team we’re in need of your talent and passion! We’re East Cobb Robotics, a community robotics team (and small business!) made up of public, private, and homeschooled high school students across East Cobb. Building and driving the robot is only a small part of what makes us successful. We have the engineering and programming part handled (you’ll never have to pick up a wrench!), but we need YOUR unique skills to help us grow!  We can help sharpen those skills while gaining real life experience in a fun, team atmosphere.

If this is you, please come to one of our Information Meetings to learn more and see how we can help each other learn and succeed.

Fall Info Meetings:
Mountain View Library
3320 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA 30066
Wednesday, August 8, 2018  7:00pm – 8:00pm
Saturday, August 11, 2018  11:30am – 12:30pm

Questions? Email us at info@EastCobbRobotics.org or visit us online at www.EastCobbRobotics.org.

 

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East Cobb Robotics invited to FIRST World Championships for third consecutive year

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East Cobb Robotics, FRC 4910

Thanks to Lisa Hatch, executive director of East Cobb Robotics, for sending along the photo and great news about the latest accomplishments for the FRC 4910 team. She said the students on the team attend Pope, Sprayberry, Walton and Wheeler high schools, and some are home-schooled:

East Cobb Robotics, FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) team 4910 is excited to announce that for the 3rd year in a row, its students have again earned a spot at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, Texas. East Cobb Robotics (ECR) is a community-based, not for profit organization providing STEM education to high-school aged students through its participation in the FIRSTRobotics Competition. Each year, over 3600 teams from around the world are provided a ‘game,’ challenging them to design, build, and program a robot in order to compete. ey have just six weeks to accomplish this goal, followed by tournaments where their team strives to outperform the robots of other teams. At the end of these tournaments, the top 400 teams earn an invitation to the championship event.

This year, the students of ECR won their two qualification tournaments in the Peachtree District as first place winners, and nished third overall in Georgia after a challenging District Championship event in Athens. We are very proud of their accomplishments and can’t wait to see what the future has in store for them. Over the years of our existence, ECR has won numerous awards including Engineering Inspiration, Safety, Quality, Team Spirit, Excellence in Engineering, and Gracious Professionalism as well as nishing as part of the third highest ranked alliance at the 2017 World Competition.

East Cobb Robotics is a 501(c)3 not-for-pro t organization based in Marietta, GA. Tax deductible contributions can be made via PayPal to eastcobbrobotics@gmail.com.

The Wheeler Circuit Runners also have qualified for the world championships, and they’re looking for financial assistance for the trip to Houston.

 

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East Cobb Robotics to hold information meetings next week

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We know it’s the week of spring break, but if you’ve been looking to get your high school-age child into a robotics program, East Cobb Robotics is having two information meetings next week. Here’s what they’re sharing with interested kids and parents about what they have to offer, and how you can get in touch:

We are SO much #morethanrobots! East Cobb Robotics is looking for students with a variety of interests to join our FIRST Robotics Competition team. Use your passion for Art, Programming, Writing, Marketing, Social Media, Website Design, CAD, Community Service, Business Plans, Photography, Video Editing, Engineering or Robotics to build Robots, Friendships and LIFE Skills.

Our FRC team is open to 9th – 12 graders. We accept public, private and homeschooled students.

Find out more by attending one of our informational meetings to see how you can SHINE!! Together we build amazing robots and good humans.

2018 SPRING FRC INFORMATION MEETINGS
When:
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Saturday, April 14, 2018 11:30am – 12:30pm

Where:
Mountain View Library (3320 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA 30066)

Please contact info@EastCobbRobotics.org with any questions.

 

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East Cobb Robotics team advances to state-level competition

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East Cobb Robotics Team 11096

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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