HTH Legos Robotics Season Ends with Many Awards!

April 19, 2008- HTH students finished the Legos Robotics strong by winning State and competing in Atlanta, Georgia for world competition. The Robotics team ended up in the top 10 for their competition, and the Legos team ended up #24 out of 81 teams worldwide! We are SO proud of our awesome students and teams! Thanks, also, to the many business partners and parents and mentors that made this possible. Check out our blog of the events!

Highland Tech High Students Impress Tough Judges!

March 14, 2008, the Highland Tech High (HTH) Team 1548 students received the Judges’ Award at the Silicon Valley Robotics Competition in San Jose, California.  This award is only given to one team attending the competition, based on a team’s unique efforts, performance, dynamics, merit recognition, and “gracious professionalism”.  With one more day of competition to go, HTH students are using evenings to strategize on ways to improve their performance with the robot, as a team, to help others, and work together.  This year’s theme, “First Overdrive” is for high school students, grades 9-12.

The HTH Legos/Robotics Team 5947 will be representing the State of Alaska at the FIRST LEGO League World Festival Competition in Atlanta, Georgia from 16-19 April 2008. This competition involves teams from about 25 different countries as well as other top teams from across the United States.

The competition involves judging in four areas including building a robot to compete in performance matches, an evaluation of the design and programming for our robot, an evaluation of our ability to work as a team, and a project that focuses on the theme of this year’s competition.  This year’s theme for the Legos/Robotics (grades 7&8) is POWER PUZZLE which examines alternative sources of energy and their application in local communities. 

HTH’s team completed their project for the state competition, and is now in the process of helping communities around Alaska save money on energy.  Providing face-to-face presentations and audit instructions, HTH Legos/Robotics students are helping schools around Anchorage conduct energy audits, as well as helping others statewide through video and audio conferences.  A report will be given to the Alaska State Legislature by April 1, 2008 on the findings.

Highland Tech High’s Legos/Robotics has been active for the past three years.  Thanks to our awesome students, parents, and business partners we are making waves around the USA!  Stayed tuned for updated information at:  www.highlandtech.org

LEGOS

Legos Team meetings - Mon/Wed/Fri - 2:30 - 4:00 pm - Room #20

LEGOS Team Wins State Championship
Let's celebrate!!

Our Legos team (7th & 8th grade Robotics) won state champion this Saturday at UAA, competition against hundreds of other teams statewide! Our school now has been invited to compete at the world-wide championship in Georgia!

Kudos to the "core" team members, but also to the many students and staff who helped throughout the Fall semester. Our Robotics team also helped from 7am - 7pm on Saturday, setting up, judging, running around, etc. Everyone was commenting on what NICE kids the HTH group is! Both the younger and older kids' groups made very positive impressions on everyone by their hard work and especially their high PSS interactions.

Legos Core Team that competed Saturday:
Patrick Duwane
Aiden O'Donnell
Ari Panor-Brown
Mason Smith
Kaleb Thomas
Dillon Wade.

Robotics

We are the Robotics team (Legos#5947 & Robotics#1548) from Highland Tech High. Our Robotics team is currently in the process of building and programming our robot. We have designed the robot to complete the tasks in this year’s newest game, called “Overdrive.” The video of the game is on our robotics website at:
http://robotics.hthstudentwebsites.org/index.html

We are on our third year of participating in the robotics competition. We are ahead of schedule and are nearly done with the frame. Everyone in robotics is dedicated and working very hard to get this done as precisely and as quickly as possible. We have had much help from our sponsors and are very grateful for the help from our coaches, Denis Dewane, Lon Lyford, Terry Smales, Dave Patterson, and Roxy Menadelook. We have been working nearly non-stop and are about to begin work on our pneumatic arm. Nothing is more than important to our success than support from our sponsors. Without their help we would be at a stop and not be able to do anything. We are still very busy and we must keep working just as hard if we wish to finish soon. We will keep you updated with current status on our robot at our website.

We are proud of mentoring our younger Legos/Robotics students, who won Alaska State Championship this January, 2008, and are working towards competing in the World Challenge, held at Atlanta, GA in April, 2008. Working in teams with “gracious professionalism” students are collaborating with other teams for training and problem solving techniques. Thanks to all our business partners, we are able to have the ability to reach our goals.

Check out the Robotics Home Page:
http://robotics.hthstudentwebsites.org/

Keep in touch through the Robotics/Legos Blog Site:
http://robotics.hthstudentwebsites.org/blog/

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