T-shirt cannon...

will be making its debut at the East Cobber Parade on September 12, 2015. Stay tuned!

UltraFun with UltraViolet

It was definitely a purple sort of day when East Cobb Robotics got together with UltraViolet FLL Team #335 to brainstorm ideas on how to create a more stable robot and to get feedback on some building techniques.

All the students really worked well together and learned a lot while having fun with robots. (Always a great thing).

We're looking forward to seeing what the FLL Game Reveal on August 25th brings to the girls of UltraViolet and hope that we can get together again soon!

It's TOOL TIME!

After the split with our former host school, the team was left with almost no hand tools and we were facing some serious challenges as to how we would be able to keep building robots in our new space.

Thanks to an incredibly generous gift from Stanley Black & Decker tools, the team now has a ginormous set of brand new tools! (We were so excited, we took pictures of the boxes.)

The inventory and unpacking starts this weekend and our students are literally hugging the boxes, and can't wait to open them up and start using them.

Thank you, Stanley Black & Decker for helping our team and for your commitment to helping to grow lives and foster young engineers and a love of STEM. You're helping us make a difference.

Successful Membership Drive!

We had a great turn out for our membership drive this year!

Our veteran students presented information like the pros they are, and we able to successfully share what FIRST is all about to students and their parents at two separate Information Meetings.

More evidence that this program is more than robots!

Assisting at the STEM Compass Robotics Camp at GT

East Cobb Robotics students, collaborating with Walton Robotics, helped staff a camp put on by STEM Compass at Georgia Tech this summer.

Students from both teams taught campers how to create a robot that could complete a previous FLL challenge. Everyone also got to tour the Robotics Lab and the Georgia Tech campus.

Campers were able to program and build robots that met the challenges while discovering new potential careers in STEM fields and being inspired by the Georgia Tech campus.