On Saturday at GRITS (our pre-season robotics competition) the rookie members learned how a competition operates and got to experience some of the excitement and action involved. Veteran team members got to see another version of the GRITS competition and were also able to relive the excitement and action of competition. We had lots of fun, showed great spirit (more about that later), and represented East Cobb Robotics well in front of other students, the public and Georgia FIRST leadership.
Students also learned great problem solving skills, how to work as a team and how to handle challenges that arose. Through the talents of the All-Rookie Drive Team and build, electrical and programming team members working together, we wound up coming in 8th place out of 25.
Our t-shirt cannon shot off shirts to the crowd and had a lot of interest from the public as well as other teams. We had fun interacting with the Dodgen FTC team, The Afterburners, who
were there demonstrating their robot, and shared information about the
next level of FIRST (FRC) with them as well as some pizza.
We also got to share information about STEM with the public and had more than a few people interested in our competition robot, King Tote, our t-shirt cannon and the FIRST Progression of Programs.
While we encountered some challenges during the robot portion of the competition, we had NO trouble with spirit. We impressed the judges with our awesome dance moves and infectious team spirit and brought home the GRITS 2015 Spirit Award! This is our second GRITS trophy, and it's a beautiful addition to our collection.
Thanks to everyone who came out and cheered on ALL the participants at GRITS and for helping to encourage a love of STEM in the community.
