The team of Sam Murray, Connor
Johnston, Trevor Hohbein, and Terrill Murray took home the gold medal at the
first annual State Fair Lego Mindstorms RCX programming contest. Kevin
Kramer, Program Manager for the 4-H Youth Development through UNL, put together
the first competition for middle school students from across the state.
Dr. Bradley Barker, 4-H Science and Technology specialist, was also on hand to
help the teams. Both men have BIG plans for Nebraska and the use of
robotics, GPS, and GIS systems over the next few years.
The team had 3 hours to build the robot (from a kit)
and program it to maneuver around 4 bottles of water in a criss-cross pattern.
It didn't take long to build the robot, so most of the time was spent adjusting
the commands so that it would make the turns. The more bottles the robot
was actually able to go around, the more points the team would receive. At
noon all the students had to go eat lunch at the State Fair food booths, and at
1 o'clock all the teams came back for the actual competition. Note:
Sam will be getting his medal later as they were missing one.
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