ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: April 18, 2013
CONTACT: Jeff Sammons, jeff.sammons@ttu.edu
(806) 742-3451
More Than 500 Elementary and Middle School Students Compete in LEGO Robotics Challenge
WHAT: Get Excited About Robotics (GEAR) competition day
WHEN: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday (April 20)
Elementary Schools: 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Middle Schools: 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
WHERE: Texas Tech Rec Center, Basketball Courts
EVENT: GEAR is an eight-week LEGO robotics challenge for elementary and middle school students in grades K-8. Student teams build and program LEGO robots, using MINDSTORMS NXT kits to perform specified tasks. To solve the challenge, students learn engineering skills through a teaming exercise in designing, building, programming, testing and troubleshooting wheeled LEGO robots that perform and compete on an eight-foot by eight-foot field.
Texas Tech freshmen engineering students mentor the elementary and middle school students and assist with robot programming.
During the last six years, Texas Tech served as a local GEAR hub for the competition in Lubbock. During this time period, the competition has grown from a trial run held with Harwell Elementary School in 2006 to a competition with 150 participating teams. This year, more than 500 students from more than 50 schools from the Lubbock area and across the South Plains will participate.
For more information, visit the GEAR website.
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CONTACT: Tanja Karp, associate professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Whitacre College of Engineering, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-3533 ext. 251, or tanja.karp@ttu.edu.
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