About our team
Posted by Coach Woods on Monday, October 27, 2008
Westminster Christian
Academy's Robotic's team consist of 5 freshman students, Hannah Cole, Steven
Hook, Jordan Russell, Steven Stowe, and Ausitn Woods and the team
is coached by Mrs. Donna Rae Woods. The team, better known
as the Westminster Technological Innovation Squad
far exceeded anybody's expectations for a 1st year robotics team in this past
weekend's Georgia BEST Robotics Championship, 'Just Plane Crazy' at
Southern Polytecnic State University in Marietta, GA. Westminster's Tech Squad
has been working for the past 42 days with Coach Woods and mentors from local area
businesses to design and build a radio-controlled machine to accomplish
defined tasks in a game-type format. Westminster's team along with other
teams from Georgia received identical kits of equipment (motors, r/c unit,
batteries, etc.) and raw materials from which to build their machines, and a
detailed set of game rules. The robots each team buillt could
not weigh more than 24 pounds, must fit within a 24-inch cube, and must be
built only from the raw materials supplied to them by the local hub. The team
was also required to write an Engineering Notebook consisting of detailed
information about the team's process of the design and building of their robot
along with a research paper relevant to the competition's theme. Westminster
also entered the website competition, the team t-shirt design competition and
the spirit and sportsmanship competition.