Robot to Lead Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk

[Craig Roys]

Originally Posted by dschmalzel

The Bridge Walk was a huge success. We had tons of coverage promoting FIRST and it even ended up on a few National News Sites!

We have a few pictures and there are articles all over about the walk. Most are just using the AP Feed for the article.

In the end we ran with 7 batteries in the robot with only 6 turned on. We were able to go much faster than the walkers, we may have been able to beat the joggers that started 30 min before! Level ground we can reach 8-10 mph.

The kids did an awesome job building the robot, we even did some work during our week long demo at the Armada Fair so tons of people saw how we do it.

In the one picture you can see the Governor behind our group with the robot. Now if we can just get the Gov to wear the Pi shirt to the State Championships next year that would be awesome!

Overall it was great to get out and promote FIRST and STEM the fact that we were able to do it with Governor Snyder just made it even better.

It should be noted that, as with many newspaper articles, there is an error...the AP reported that the robot was built by students from the Macomb International Academy which is incorrect. The robot was built by students from the Macomb Academy of Arts & Sciences which is part of the Armada Area Schools District.