2013 Emerald Coast Robotics Kick Off

The Emerald Coast Robotics Kick Off was Saturday, September 28. Robert Jernigan, OSA, and Beth Hanning, Doolittle Institute, hosted the event . Teams from Davidson and Shoal River Middle Schools, as well as Bob Sykes Elementary joined them at the Okaloosa STEMM Center to participate in Part 1 of our Natural Disaster Challenge. Students completed a mock challenge to program their robot to distribute food and water to shelters with the use of light and color sensors.

Niceville High School (NHS) students Matthew Helms and Reid Elliott taught students to program robots using the new EV3 software. Ben Shuman, NHS Robotics coach taught students about the idea way to build an EV3 robot. Tim Sexton, Davidson Middle School brought his new set of 15 EV3 robots to share. Four Middle and Elementary schools participated with 8 coaches, 63 students, 20 Niceville High School student helpers, 1 Collegiate High School helper and 31 volunteers and observers.

Part 2 of the Challenge will take place at Bob Sikes Elementary on October 26, hosted by Coach Ulanda Nunn and Dottie Holland. Coaches Laurie Allen, Shoal River Middle School and Tim Sexton will talk more in depth about the Florida Lego League (FLL) Nature's Fury Challenge to the students at that time.

For more information about the FLL Nature's Fury Challenge go to: http://www.firstlegoleague.org/challenge/2013naturesfury or to find out about how to form a robotics team, download the free version of the EV3 software, or register for next year's FLL challenge, go to http://di-idl.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_24.html.