FRC Competiton 2006
FIRST Frenzy, Triple Play, and this year, Aim High. Luckily, iHOT plans to do exactly that—aim high, that is! This year's robot is a culmination of six weeks of student run determination. From concept to design to fabrication, student ranging in age and experience from 7th to 12th grade put their knowledge to the test. Under the leadership of team captain Santiago Cadavid and co-captain Adrien Pellerin, iHOT worked hard and just recently shipped out their new robot! Now its a game of waiting and strategizing until iHOT meets the bot again at the 2006 Peachtree Regionals. For more information about our work for the Aim High competiton take a look at some of our individual sub teams, specifically, the engineering team. Also for more information about the awards iHOT won in previous years, please consult our awards page.
Community Outreach
The Columbian school project seeks to provide financial aid and material goods to help build and establish schools in Columbia. The project is being speaheaded by team captain Santiago Cadavid, and is currently in progress. iHOT is busy raising money and collecting goods to send to Columbia. The team has already put concerts in the Atlanta area and sold raffle tickets to raise money and awareness. The team hopes to establish longterm links between the Columbian schools and AIS.Mad Physics Dot Com is a website created by two iHOT team leaders, Afrooz Family and Joost ten Lohuis. The site "is dedicated to bringing science to the masses," and has successfully done so for more than a year. In 2005 Mad Physics averaged over 2.2 million hits, and took its show on the road, giving lecture tours in schools across Australia. The site is now featuring a robotics section and hopes to partner with FIRST and iHOT to teach students around the world about robotics and technology.
Robots Save Lives, a project started by the Arianna Gutierrez in 2004, was created to develop a low cost, autonomous landmine detecting robot based largely on recycled parts from the FIRST Robotics competition. Through the gracious sponsorship of Kimberly Clark, and in conjunction with International Students Against Landmines (ISAL) and the FIRST Boilermaker and Peachtree Regional event organizers, iHOT held a competition last year to promote awareness of the issue of robotic landmine detection. The aim of the project is to solicit creative, innovative engineering designs, not an actually constructed robot, which will aid in the construction of an advanced, low cost, landmine detecting robot. The West Side Boiler Invasion (FIRST Team 461) won the 2005 competition, and with it $1000.
