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West/Panhandle Plains FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:13 +0000

The Whitacre College of Engineering Robotics Program hosts the West/Panhandle Plains robotics competitions serving around 1,000 students each year in the Lubbock, Midland, El Paso, and Amarillo regions of Texas. First Tech Challenge is a mid-level robotics competition for students in grades 7th-12th (ages 12-18). Participants compete head-to-head using a sports model. Teams of 10+ students – including coaches, mentors, and volunteers – are required to develop a strategy and construct robots based on sound engineering principles. Teams design, build and program robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams to solve the game task for a given year. Teams also focus on community outreach, design and other real-world accomplishments.

Get Excited About Robotics (GEAR)

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:39:13 +0000

The Whitacre College of Engineering Robotics Program hosts the Get Excited about Robotics (GEAR) annual robotics competition. The program provides an exciting hands-on LEGO robotics challenge for elementary and middle school students at no costs to participating schools. GEAR works to increase interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines. Teams of 3-5 students work together to design, build, program, test, and troubleshoot their robots to solve the year’s challenge that is motivated by real world applications of robotics (automated farming, robotic surgery, unmanned space travel, etc.) Thousands of students have participated in GEAR since its inception over a decade ago.