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Roane State to celebrate its LEAP grant on Leap Day

Posted at 10:57 am February 23, 2016
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Roane-State-Mechantronics

The mechatronics program at Roane State Community College prepares students for technology-driven manufacturing careers. (Photo by RSCC)

 

Roane State Community College received a workforce development grant last year, and the school will celebrate the LEAP grant on February 29, Leap Day, with mechatronics demonstrations, robotics teams from area high schools, and refreshments.

“Because Monday, February 29, is Leap Day, it’s the perfect time for Roane State Community College to celebrate its LEAP grant,” a press release said.

The $970,000 Labor Education Alignment Program, or LEAP, grant helped Roane State expand its one-year mechatronics program into a two-year degree and to offer dual credit mechatronics course for students at area high schools.

The Leap Day celebration is scheduled from 9-11 a.m. on Monday, February 29, at the college’s Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility in Clinton at 214 Nave Street. The public is invited. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Meetings and Events, Top Stories Tagged With: Bill Haslam, Clinton High School, Drive to 55, FIRST, FIRST Robotics Competition, Gordon Williams, Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility, Labor Education Alignment Program, LEAP, LEAP grant, mechatronics, Oak Ridge High School Band Boosters, Roane County, Roane State Community College, robotics teams, Tennessee Higher Education Commission, THEC

FIRST Robotics Competition streamed live online

Posted at 2:40 pm April 23, 2015
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Live streaming of the First Robotics Competition in St. Louis, Missouri—a contest that includes the Secret City Wildbots from Oak Ridge—can be viewed here.

Secret City Wildbots (Team 4265) are in the Hopper Division. Today’s qualification rounds were scheduled for #12 at 9:47 a.m., #23 at 11:04 a.m., #38 at 2:44 p.m., and #48 at 3:54 p.m.

There are 600 teams competing in this year’s international championship.

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12 Tagged With: FIRST, FIRST Robotics, FIRST Robotics Competition, Secret City Wildbots, Team 4265

Secret City Wildbots ranked No. 9 in Smoky Mountain Regionals

Posted at 12:09 am April 4, 2015
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Smoky Mountain Regionals Team 4265

Photos by Angi Agle

 

By Angi Agle and University of Tennessee

With the first day of competition complete, the Secret City Wildbots are ranked Number 9 in the Smoky Mountain Regionals competition held at the Knoxville Convention Center. Continuing competition Saturday morning will determine final standings for the elimination rounds Saturday afternoon.

Team selection for the elimination rounds are based partly on standing (the top eight teams are automatically entered and choose two other schools for their teammates), but partly on individual capabilities and other factors.

At the end of the elimination rounds, the winning team of three robots earns the right to enter the World Championship in St. Louis, Missouri, from April 22-25. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Angi Agle, FIRST, FIRST Robotics, FIRST Robotics Competition Smoky Mountain Regional, Recycle Rush, robots, Secret City Wilbots, Secret City Wildbots, Smoky Mountain Regionals, University of Tennessee

Smoky Mountain Regional robot competition kicked off Thursday with practice

Posted at 11:36 pm April 3, 2015
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Smoky Mountain Regionals Team 4265

Photos by Angi Agle

 

By Angi Agle

The Smoky Mountain Regional robotics competition kicked off Thursday with practice rounds, and qualification matches began Friday morning.

The theme of this year’s game is “Recycle Rush.” Robots are to pick up recycle bins, put foam noodles in trash cans, and stack all of them in the center of the field. Additional points are gained for the number of containers stacked.

Human players feed foam noodles into the trash cans as the robots hold them up to a hole in the plexiglas, as well as feeding gray recycle bins into the field for the robots to stack.

Team 4265, the Secret City Wildbots, experienced some technical challenges, which were expected to be resolved Friday morning. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Angi Agle, College of Engineering, FIRST, FIRST Robotics, FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Robotics Competition Smoky Mountain Regional, For Innovation and Recognition of Science and Technology, L.J. Robinson, practice, recycle bins, Recycle Rush, robots, science, Secret City Wildbots, Smoky Mountain Regionals, Team 4265, technology, TNFIRST LLC, University of Tennessee, Wayne Davis

Education Foundation grants support robotics, Lego learning projects

Posted at 12:57 pm March 23, 2015
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Jefferson Middle School Master Builders

Two members of the Jefferson Middle School Master Builders team are preparing their robot to solve missions at a FIRST Lego League mission table. (Photo by Yvonne Dalschen)

 

At Linden Elementary School, Lisa Buckner’s third-graders are building robots and Lego floats representing continents in a months-long project aimed at engaging them in learning, problem solving, and creative and critical thinking.

The 38 members of Oak Ridge High School’s Secret City Robotics team are solving real-world problems as they build and program a 120-pound robot to enter FIRST Robotics Competitions as an extra-curricular activity.

Teachers view robots and Lego sets as tools giving Oak Ridge students opportunities to collaborate, design, build, and solve problems as they learn engineering, science, and technology skills, both inside and outside the classroom.

The Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation supported these activities with $18,700 in grants last year to teachers at the Oak Ridge High School, Jefferson and Robertsville middle schools, and Linden Elementary School. The grants included a UT-Battelle donation of $10,000 directed to FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge, and FIRST Lego League teams, all extra-curricular programs at the high school and middle schools. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: Atomic City Invitational, Atomic Eagles, David Hundermark, FIRST, FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Tech Challenge, FLL, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, Gordon Williams, grans, Janie Shanafield, Jefferson Middle School, Jessica Steed, JMS Master Builders, LEGO, Lego League, Lexie Scott, Linden Elementary School, Lisa Buckner, Making the Critical Difference, Master Builders, Ninjineers, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, ORHS Engineering and Robotics Academy, Robertsville Middle School, robots, Rodney King, Secret City Robotics, Secret City Wildbots, Secret City Wildbots FIRST Robotics, Tech Challenge, UT-Battelle, Woodland Elementary School, Yvonne Dalschen

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

UT College of Engineering helps kick off robot season; Secret City Wildbots take part

Posted at 9:46 pm January 6, 2015
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Oak Ridge Secret City Wildcats

From left to right, Eli Charles, Olivia Mahathy, Steven Charles. and Moire Gabor, part of the Secret City Wildbots from Oak Ridge High School, work on the initial stages of their robot. (Photos courtesy UT)

 

KNOXVILLE—For many, the end of football season usually means attention turns to basketball, but for more than 400 budding scientists and engineers who came to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on Saturday it marks the start of something else: robot season.

FIRST Robotics kicked off its 2015 game, Recycle Rush, with a live reveal broadcast online to teams around the world, including 29 teams who gathered at Cox Auditorium on the UT campus.

“Saturday marks the first time that any of the teams get to see the challenge of this year’s game,” said L.J. Robinson, Tennessee’s regional director of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). “The kickoff event is a big deal in its own right, with gatherings held around the world to watch the announcement.

“Certainly, it’s an exciting moment for those new to the competition.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Education, K-12, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: Bill Hamel, College of Engineering, Eli Charles, FIRST, FIRST Robotics, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, L.J. Robinson, Masood Parang, Moire Gabor, Oak Ridge High School, Olivia Mahathy, Recycle Rush, robots, Secret City Wildbots, Steven Charles, University of Tennessee, UT

ORNL awarded two Energy Frontier Research Centers

Posted at 6:00 pm June 20, 2014
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David Wesolowski and Yanwen Zhang

Pictured above are David Wesolowski, left, director of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Transport Center; and Yanwen Zhang, director of the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution Center. (Photo courtesy ORNL)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be home to two Energy Frontier Research Centers announced this week by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. The Department of Energy awarded a total of $100 million to 32 EFRC projects to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy. 

“Today, we are mobilizing some of our most talented scientists to join forces and pursue the discoveries and breakthroughs that will lay the foundation for our nation’s energy future,” Secretary Moniz said. “The funding we’re announcing today will help fuel scientific and technological innovation.”

The two ORNL EFRCs are a renewal of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Transport (FIRST) Center, which is led by David Wesolowski, and a new award to the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE) Center, led by Yanwen Zhang.

ORNL scientists also partnered on successful proposals to lay the groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences, and extreme environments. Those proposals include three new projects (led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the State University of New York–Stony Brook, and Pennsylvania State University) and three renewals (led by Washington University in St. Louis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Argonne National Laboratory, David Wesolowski, Drexel University, EDDE, EFRC, energy dissipation, Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution Center, Energy Frontier Research Centers, energy technologies, Ernest Moniz, FIRST, Fluid Interface Reactions Structures and Transport Center, fluid-solid interfaces, irradiation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Michelle Buchanan, nanoscale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Pennsylvania State University, Thom Mason, U.S. Department of Energy, University of California–Berkeley, University of California–Davis, University of California–Riverside, University of Delaware, University of Michigan, University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vanderbilt University, Yanwen Zhang

UT, ORNL, NASA, TVA help robotic ‘football’ kick off this week

Posted at 1:51 pm March 25, 2014
By University of Tennessee 1 Comment

FIRST Robotics' Aerial Assist

This image shows what a game of FIRST Robotics’ Aerial Assist, a football-like game played by robots, might look like. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee)

KNOXVILLE—Football season is still months away, but those needing a quick fix before fall can get a chance to see a version of the game played by competitors functioning like well-oiled machines.

The FIRST Robotics Competition Smoky Mountain Regional returns to the Knoxville Convention Center March 26-29, and is centered around a game featuring strong elements from football and soccer called Aerial Assist.

The idea behind Aerial Assist is that the 50 teams at the competition—from as far away as St. Louis and as close as the L&N STEM Academy across World’s Fair Park—will each build a robot capable of throwing, kicking, or running with a round ball with the goal of scoring a goal at each end of a field, or one capable of playing defense.

The University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering in Knoxville helps sponsor the event along with various technology and industry organizations such as NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Federal, Front Page News, Government, K-12, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science Tagged With: Aerial Assist, College of Engineering, engineering, FIRST, FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Robotics Competition Smoky Mountain Regional, football, For Innovation and Recognition of Science and Technology, Knoxville Convention Center, L.J. Robinson, math, NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, robot, science, Smoky Mountain Regional, soccer, STEM, technology, Tennessee Valley Authority, TNFIRST, University of Tennessee, UT, Wayne Davis

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