Robotics

• 2009 Smart Move We won the Technical Award at the UK final in Loughborough.
• 2008 Climate Connections We won the Research Project Award at the UK final in Loughborough.

We have not yet converted the pages from our previous seasons to this site but you can still read about our adventures on our old site:

• 2007 Power Puzzle We went to the Open Asian Championship in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2006 NanoQuest We went to the UK final in Birmingham.
• 2005 Ocean Odyssey We went to the Open European Championship in Eindhoven, NL.

We were interviewed by a photojournalist and were featured in the magazine on Saturday 5th March 2010.

In the preparation phase before a tournament, each team must:

• Build a robot from LEGO Mindstorms and program it to take part in the robot game.
• Research a project about transportation in a community defined by the team.

At a tournament, each team must:

• Run their robot against another in the robot game.
• Explain their robot's technical features (engineering and programming) to a team of judges.
• Deliver a presentation of their project about transportation to a team of judges.
• Discuss teamwork and the process of working on the challenge with a team of judges.

The team was very happy when the robot performed well enough on the table to scrape into 8th place after the qualifying rounds. In the quarter-finals, the operators experienced problems and the robot gained a very low score.

Winners of regional Director's Award

The Tech HEds won the South West Regional Tournament on 24 November 2010 at HP in Bristol.

What we have created

Our robot	Our research project
We have a robot with an elevator shaft for dropping the deliverables.	Our project is a glove to help people with problems to grip. We have applied for a patent in the UK and are submitting our project to the FLL Global Innovation Award. You can read about it in our Gripassist leaflet. Please vote for Gripassist in the FLL Global Innovation Award.