FIRST Robotics Team 1501, Huntington Indiana
Team THRUST 1501 had a very successful trip to the State House where we networked with several other organization in the State of Indiana with the same Science, Technology, Engineering and Math projects. FIRST robotic teams from Indiana included 45, 461, 1024, 1501 and 1529.
Pictured: Garrett Fowler, Samir Shaikh, Keith Chandler from the Indiana Department of Workforce, and Katelyn Shoebridge.
Tomorrow marks the start of our SIXTH season as Huntington County 4-H Robotics. Another exciting year none the least. We’ve had some wonderful sponsorships again this year from BAE Systems, NASA, Henline Towing, United Technologies, Indiana Workforce Development, National 4-H Council, United REMC Operation Round Up, PHD, Inc. and Huntington University. Thank you sponsors for making this possible to grow our students in our own community.
Kickoff will be held at Huntington University Science Building.
The agenda can be downloaded here if you can join us.
http://huntingtonrobotics.org/downloads/
Or you can watch it LIVE from home or your computer.
Saturday morning 10:00-noon EDT.
Watch it live on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
or via webcast on http://robotics.nasa.gov/
This came into my inbox today, an article written by a LEGO student, Henry Easley.
http://huntingtonfreepress.com/living/people/lego-robotics-competition-held-2.html
I was inspired for two reasons:
1. Kudos to Henry for taking the time to write up a nice article about his experience.
2. That our Huntington Community has some great people over at Huntington Free Press.com to allow students to express themselves. Take special note to the “editors note”.
Thanks to both Henry and Rick from Huntington Free Press
Chris Elston
For Press Release:
National 4-H Council awarded a $2,500 grant to the Huntington County 4-H robotics team. This funding will support the team as they work together throughout the year to learn how to build robots and participate in robotics competitions across the country.
To support 4-H’s expanded robotics programming, and in anticipation of the upcoming 2010 launch of 4-H’s comprehensive robotics curriculum, National 4-H Council raised grants that were awarded to forty-three 4-H Robotics Teams in twenty states nation-wide. These 4-H teams will participate in at least one FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), or FIRST LEGO League (FLL) event.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and National 4-H Council formed an alliance earlier this year to expand robotics clubs and programming among new youth across the nation. Through these grants, twenty-seven of the forty-three grants awarded are helping to establish brand new 4-H Robotics Teams in several states.
Huntington County 4-H Robotics Team #1501 will participate in the FIRST Kick-off event on Saturday, January 9, 2010, held locally at Huntington University Science Building. 4-H members and adult mentors will begin the planning and design stages for building this year’s robot to compete in the Boilermaker Regional, scheduled at Purdue University March 18-20.
About 4-H:
4-H is a community of six million young people across America learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. National 4-H Council is the private sector, non-profit partner of National 4-H Headquarters (USDA). The 4-H programs are implemented by the 106 Land Grant Universities and the Cooperative Extension System through their 3,100 local Extension offices across the country. Learn more about 4-H at www.4-h.org
