On Saturday, February 18th, Walton Robotics hosted eight teams from across Georgia on the Marietta DE 2017 FRC Steamworks competition field. The teams experienced a safety briefing, lunch, and of course ROBOTS! We had some teams who could climb and others that could get across the field really fast. It was a wonderful day full of information sharing, teamwork, and all around fun!
The Marietta DE field is almost complete! Thanks to generous sponsorship from GeorgiaFIRST and over 600 hours of student and parent work, we have our first open field this Thursday, 2/9 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
DE Marietta has a full field with a steel airship, boilers, and loading stations for your use.
The first five teams to respond back will be able to participate in this open field event. Good luck to all teams and remember practice makes perfect.
Please remember to bring your own safety glasses for everyone who attends a DE event! Closed toe shoes are also required.
We look forward to seeing teams moving on the field!
Walton’s field build crew
Thanks for your hard work!
Here’s the flyer – Interview and Application Workshop 2017
The next GirlsFIRST Programming Workshop will be held on Saturday, December 3 from 1pm to 3pm at Walton High School.
This is a FREE event open to all high school girls. Participating girls will have an opportunity to work on fun programming challenges tailored to their programming knowledge. Wendy Frazier, VP Software Engineering at The Weather Company, an IBM Business, will be our VIP Guest and will share her expertise in web development and give the girls advice on how to be successful in a STEM career.
And as always, we will network and share some free SWAG!
Registration is available at https://goo.gl/forms/lQT6lsLdXZa51sYO2. Seating is limited, so don’t wait to sign up! Please join us to meet this amazing STEM leader and sharpen your programming skills and learn new ones!
GRITS 2016 was a fantastic event for the FIRST program. On Saturday, October 22, our team was able to to debut a brand new drive team and scouting team. We trained a few new members in our pit, we held a signup for our upcoming GirlsFIRST events, and we even practiced mock awards scouting to prepare for competition.
Thanks to everyone who made this event possible! A special thanks goes out to Riverside Military Academy for hosting this incredible offseason competition. Our team is excited for the upcoming build season and FIRST Steamworks!
We are very disappointed to report that, due to unforeseen circumstances, we will have to reschedule the GirlsFIRST event planned for this Saturday, October 15 at Walton High School.
Thank you very much for interest in working together and learning about futures in STEM. We will let you know as soon as the GirlsFIRST event is rescheduled. I hope you will be able to join us then.
In the meantime, if you would like any additional information about GirlsFIRST or Walton Robotics, please contact us. We would enjoy sharing our passion for STEM with you.
Thank you again for your time and understanding. We look forward to meeting you in the near future.
Walton Robotics is hosting another GirlsFIRST event on Saturday, October 15. This is a free event for high school girls at Walton High School. Activities include networking with female STEM professionals, participate in a fun engineering challenge, and learn how to drive robots. Lunch will be provided. Please register at https://goo.gl/forms/vsDaH
Download a copy of the flyer here — girls-first-flyer-pdf-2
Today, the Walton Robotics Team marched among its fellow East Cobb community, spreading its message along the way. Our team clearly made a lasting impact on many of the families that attended, and everyone was happy to see us in action. Thanks so much to East Cobber for making the event possible, and we hope to see everyone there again next year!
WRT in the march
Team member Noah teaching kids how to drive the robot
Festival attendees with Walt
Team members Ria, Allison, Snehal, and Simran at our booth
Team member Ria handing out Flat Walts
Future robotics student next to Walt
Last weekend, the Walton Robotics Team coach and seven team members travelled to Orlando, Florida to host a demo at a local radio host’s family event. At the demo, our team displayed the tshirt cannon and the stacker bot (for people to drive and operate), slingshot rocket construction (so kids and adults could make their own rockets), a business booth with the functions/accomplishments of our team, and a section for EV3 robot driving for little kids. The demo was a huge success; an estimated 800 people were impacted by some aspect of our team alone. We thank NASA for inviting us to share our team with the Orlando community, and we look forward to working with NASA more in the future!
Team members and NASA astronaut with Walt
Reunion attendee posing with Walt & t-shirt cannon
Team member Kenneth explaining the various mechanisms of t-shirt cannon
On January 1st of 2016, after our kickoff event, the build season was underway. We immediately started with the design process. Everyone on our team is involved in the design of the robot so that we essentially be together for an entire day and talk about pros and cons of different robots, so that everyone on the team has a say in the final robot. Next, we utilized the following two weeks prototyping and finishing designs. After the designs were finalized and the prototypes broken down, we began building the practice robot and the competition robot. We build two robots simultaneously each year so that we can have one left over for our drivers to practice with. As the six weeks drew to a close, our robot was shaping up to be something amazing. Finally, the night bag-and-tag rolled around, we put the electrical together and all the finishing touches. We bagged up the robot after six busy weeks, and left it alone until the first competition two weeks later.