University of Cincinnati Robotics Night

[Jimmy Nichols]

http://nursing.uc.edu/news/uc-robotics-night.html

Last night UC celebrated Robotics night at their Home basketball game against Campbell. Our team and 144 were invited to watch the game from the President’s suite, and all area robotics teams were given discounted ticket prices to the games. During the game 2 of 1038's alumni were honored as the first recipients of the UC FIRST Scholarships, Anthony and Adam Ogg. I have known them and their family for 6 or 7 years and have seen them grow and mature into excellent young men. I could not be more proud of them for all of their hard work and effort not only with our team but to FIRST and the FIRST Community.

Back in May our team partnered with 144 to present at the UC STEM Conference a presentation outlining the advantages and disadvantages of an FRC program operated as an During School and After School program. During this event we were introduced to President Santa Ono of UC and he immediately caught the FIRST bug. Since then our team, led by the Ogg’s, has been working with President Ono to set up FIRST Scholarships for next year, of which there will be 25 $2000 scholarships available to incoming freshman. We have also been tasked with creating a T-shirt cannon Robot for the University to use at their Football games, the students are well into the design of this.

More to come from our new partnership with UC and we hope it brings more opportunities to Make it Loud!