An article (“Robot Makes Engineers”) was published in the Detroit Free Press about Team 818, The Steel Armadillos, which I think covered the message of FIRST quite well (sorry for posting it late). Check It Out! The article also mentions our team’s previous ties with Team 217, The ThunderChickens.
Link:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/CFP07/802240449/-1/PRINT
Robot makes engineers
Students from Warren, Sterling Heights to test their creation in regional contest
BY KIM NORTH SHINE • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • February 24, 2008
On Wednesday, 22 students from high schools in Sterling Heights and Warren will board a charter bus and head to Missouri for a reunion – a reunion with an after-school project, the result of several weeks of work.
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Team 818 created an electronic robot made of a silver body with wires and chains for guts and a video-game controller for a brain. Its name: “Megatron.”…
Tomasz Bania