Autrey Mill Middle School Robotics Teams Win Champion Awards

The Autrey Mill Middle School robotics teams continued their winning streak at the TSA Fall Leadership Conference in Jekyll Island, Georgia, November 8-10.  Middle school teams from across Georgia competed in the FIRST Lego League (FLL) segment.  This year’s theme is Natural Disasters; the students built and programmed robots to perform tasks that simulated rescue missions. These tasks included rescuing people and pets, removing trees from the roadway, deploying a rescue plane, and building earthquake proof structures.  Each team was given three and a half minutes to complete as many missions as possible.  In addition to the robotics performance, the teams were also judged on core values/teamwork, a presentation related to natural disasters, and robot design.

Autrey Mill’s “Cornheads” won highest honors with a first place “Champions Award” for the third year in a row. The “Cornheads” also won the “Performance Award” for the highest overall score on the robotics competition mat performing the rescue missions.  At their first competition ever, Team “Omega Lions” was awarded the second highest honor, with a second place “Champions Award”.

Both teams will compete in the super-regionals in January.

Pictured: Front row – Kamy Shah, Jason Gao, Samuel Song, Hunter Hines, Bradley Dai, Brandon Mach, Victoria Chen

Back row – Jacob Anderson, Madison Culver, Sasha Ayagh, Siddharth Shrivastava, Will Rarer, Joshua Paredes, Rohan Kumar, Ethan Wang, Dallin Anderson, coach Ed Clawson