TransformersRobotics

Georgia State Championship Tournament

The FIRST Lego League, Georgia State Championship Tournament took place on January 29^th at Georgia Tech.  The Transformers won the first place Innovation and Strategy Award.  You can view a short movie of our robot performing missions with our strategy on YouTube.  As the presenting judge announced, our team “thunk” the best!  This award recognizes a team that uses solid engineering practices and a well-developed strategy to design and build an innovative, high performing robot.

 

We had fun, but it was a REALLY long day!

Research Project

This year’s theme is Biomedical Engineering.  You can view a 5-minute version of our presentation on YouTube.  The teams were to research body parts, chose one to study, and then find a problem to solve.  The Transformers chose the eye and the problem to solve is that the majority of people do not go to the eye doctor.  So the team invented a machine to bring the eye doctor to the people.

They invented the iScan! to be placed in stores where people go all of the time like the grocery, drug store or mall.  It analyzes a digital image of your retina, and then tells you to get to the eye doctor if there are problems like macular degeneration, cataracts or retinopathy.

 

Warner Robins Super Regional Qualifier Tournament

On January 8^th, at the Warner Robins Super Regional qualifier tournament, the Transformers won the first place Gracious Professionalism Award.  This award means that we competed like crazy, but did so with respect for others; we acted with integrity and community.  The team made the TV News on WMAZ, CH13 Macon, GA.

Kids Getting Award

The team had a blast at Starbase Robins!  We got to stay overnight in a hotel and toured the Museum of Aviation throughout the day when we were not actively engaged.

The Transformers are advancing to the Georgia State Championship tournament which takes place on January 29^th, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Georgia Tech!