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Reminder: Fundraiser for Secret City Wildbots features award-winning film on world’s water

Posted at 11:58 am February 1, 2015
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Sling Shot Press Release

A film screening this month will feature an inspirational movie about a tiny technological solution that could be used to clean up the world’s water supply. The screening of the award-winning documentary will also raise money for the Oak Ridge High School’s FIRST Robotics Team 4265, the Secret City Wildbots.

The fundraiser and screening will start at 7 p.m. Friday, February 20, in the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, a press release said. The Secret City Wildbots will begin the evening with a short demonstration of the team’s robot from 7-7:20 p.m. The screening of the 97-minue film will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Entertainment, Front Page News, K-12, Meetings and Events, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: A Christmas Festival, bad water, Dean Kamen, documentary, film, FIRST, FIRST Robotics, FIRST Robotics Team 4265, Oak Ridge High School, Paul Lazarus, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, Secret City Wildbots, Slingshot, water, water supply

Secret City Wildbots receive Excellence in Engineering award at robotics championship

Posted at 9:30 am April 28, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

FIRST Robotics Luke Buckner, Mark Buckner, and Tag Groff

Luke Buckner, Mark Buckner, and Tag Groff in the drivers’ station at the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship in St. Louis this past weekend. (Photo by Angi Agle)

 

The Secret City Wildbots team received an Excellence in Engineering award at the FIRST Robotics World Championships in St. Louis this past weekend, Oak Ridge school officials said Monday.

“The Wildbots competed in the Archimedes Division, and after 10 tough qualification matches, earned their way into the Elimination Tournament by defeating the top-ranked team in the division in the final qualification match,” according to information from Gordon F. Williams, engineering instructor, Oak Ridge High School Engineering and Robotics Academy, and FIRST Robotics Team 4265 coach and sponsor.

Williams said the Secret City Wildbots, Team 4265, formed an alliance team consisting of Team 20, The Rocketeers (from Clifton Park, N.Y.); Team 195, The Cyber Knights (from Southington, Conn.); and Team 4077, MASH (from Edmonds, Wash.) that was eliminated in the quarterfinals round. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Media, Photos, Top Stories Tagged With: Angi Agle, Excellence in Engineering, FIRST Robotics Competition Championship, FIRST Robotics Team 4265, FIRST Robotics World Championships, Gordon F. Williams, Lisa Buckner, Luke Buckner, Mark Buckner, Oak Ridge High School Engineering and Robotics Academy, Oak Ridge Schools, Secret City Wildbots, Smoky Mountains Regional FIRST, Tag Groff, Takashi Taniguchi, Team 4265

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