Category Archives: Memphis Robotics

Memphis FLL Event a Huge Success

Yesterday, 26 teams from around the region gathered at the University of Memphis for the Western TN First Lego League Pilot Championship. This years theme was Senior Solutions and the students had to build a robot that ran missions based … Continue reading

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A lot going on with robotics in Memphis

This is going to be a very busy year for robotics in Memphis: First Lego League (for students ages 9-14) just announced their competition for the year. This year’s theme is “Senior Solutions“. I know their are many teams forming … Continue reading

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Local Roboticist on TV

Today Davis Fortenberry (who I told you about in March [See Post]) was on Nickelodeon’s “Figure It Out” trying to stump the panel and also demonstrating his robot. Not only did a 10 year old beat college students in a … Continue reading

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1st FTC Team in Memphis Announced

The Memphis area now has a registered First Tech Challenge team! FTC Team 5952 “Reapers Robotics” is associated with Boy Scout Troop 45 up in Arlington. For more info, see their website at https://sites.google.com/site/reapersrobotics5952/. So now Memphis has teams in … Continue reading

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Bring Me the Head of Philip K. Dick

Bring Me the Head of Philip K. Dick How a creative team of scientists and academics from Memphis created – and lost – an android superstar. In this week’s Memphis Flyer there is an article about the android head build … Continue reading

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K-12 Website

Looking for STEM Education ideas, see http://k12lab.com/ This is a website to find and share STEM education ideas. It is sponsored by NI (the makers of LabVIEW and the NXT Software) so it has a lot of stuff on Robotics! … Continue reading

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LEGO gives young engineers a leg up

By Raina Hanna / Special to DeSoto Appeal (Commercial Appeal) Posted April 4, 2012 at midnight Cooper Jordan and Ana Le, third-graders in Overpark Elementary School’s Spotlight program, had played with LEGO building kits before but never ones that moved … Continue reading

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Fifth-grader bests college students at robotics competition

Fifth-grader bests college students at robotics competition 10-year-old’s first-place win earns standing ovation By Jane Roberts Commercial Appeal Posted March 26, 2012 at midnight Davis Fortenberry, 10, rolled out his robot in a college-level competition in Orlando earlier this month … Continue reading

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News from the US First Smoky Mountain Regional

This past weekend, the eight Memphis City School Teams: Manassas, Memphis Business Academy, Kingsbury, Hamilton, Craigmont, Cordova, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering and the combined team of Carver and Brooker T Washington all competed in the First Robotics Competition … Continue reading

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US First Teams prepare for Competition

Latter this week, 7 teams from Memphis City Schools will head off to Knoxville for the 2nd annual First Robotics Competition Smoky Mountain Regional Competition. You might have seen the article in this weeks Commercial Appeal If you are not … Continue reading

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