Cobb's HS Robotics Teams Advance to International Competition

Students from five Cobb and Cherokee district high schools just earned the team's 8th Regional / District Chairman's Award which is the most important and highest ranking award at the FIRST Robotics Competition which took place at UGA. 

The team will now advance to St. Louis to compete for the International Championship Chairman's Award and a berth in the Hall of Fame.  This is the culmination of 8 years of progressive improvement and work in advancing STEM education and represents tens of thousands of hours of work by students and mentors. 
 
The Chairman's Award requires many months just to prepare and is an annual report of team activity and strategy.  In addition to written documentation, the team has to prepare an oral 7 minute briefing, which is followed by a rigorous Q & A.  A short companion video is also released to describe briefly what the team is doing. 

Cobb student participants include:
Kell
 Daniel Navarro
 Evan Brown
 Jared Homer
 Spencer Mason
 Elijah Brumfield 
 Dev Patel

Kennesaw Mountain
 Danielle Newman
 
North Cobb
 Mackenzie Sicard (Migzy)
 
Sprayberry
 David Williams
 Jimmy Bass

Other awards from the weekend include: 
The 2nd highest award, the 'Engineering Inspiration Award' went to East Cobb Robotics (Pope students)
 
The robot winning alliance,
   Walton Robotics - Walton HS 
   East Cobb Robotics - Community Team, Pope HS Students
 
The student leadership award, the Dean's List Finalist Award went to Amanda Firestone, Wheeler HS Circuit-runners.