Maryland Home School Robotics Team Grabs Open
Slot for FIRST's International Robotics
Competition in Atlanta, April 11-15
Award
winning team has what it takes to win it all at
international level
Contact: Marco Ciavolino, Director,
TechBrick
Robotics, 410-838-8264, marco@techbrick.com
 ABINGDON, Maryland, Mar. 15 /Christian
Newswire/ --
TechBrick is
a home school robotics club that has fielded
seven robotics competition teams over the past
three years through the
FIRST
Robotics program.
On Wednesday at noon five wild-card slots
opened for high-school-level teams (VEX) to
attend the International Competition in Atlanta
in April.
"They have less than 48 hours to raise $6000
to attend this event. But this team has what it
takes to win at this level and I'm confident
they will raise the support they need to get
there." Says Marco Ciavolino, Director of
TechBrick Robotics.
TechBrick VEX is ready. They won the Innovate
Award in the NJ state championship and ran the
first 'ball stealing' robot in the nation in the
DE state championships. "We're ready to go,"
says team member, Amy. "Just a few tweaks and we
can compete to win."
TechBrick is the sole representative for
Maryland in the VEX program in Atlanta and they
intend to represent their home state well.
The FIRST program was founded by Dean Kamen
of Segway Scooter fame. Last year the program
engaged children 5-18 in a range of robotics
challenges. More than 130,000 students built
10,652 robots with the help of 37,000 mentors
and 21,000 event volunteers from more than 70
countries.
TechBrick VEX invites you to visit their
website at
http://www.techbrick.com for more
information about this exciting program and our
team of young engineers.
Key Resources:
TECHBRICK:
http://www.techbrick.com
FIRST:
http://www.usfirst.org
CHAMPIONSHIP:
http://www.usfirst.org/community/content.aspx?id=4190 |
