2016 Forsyth County Invitational Robot Run Tournament

On Oct. 29, the 2016 Forsyth County Invitational Robot Run Tournament was held at Atkins Academic and Technology High School.

The Robot Run is an annual event for middle school students in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. Each school had a small team of students that built and programmed a LEGO Mindstorms robot that used to compete against other teams for a chance to win the LEGO trophy. 

The Robot Run is designed to get students excited about STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) With the guidance of an adult coach, teams were given a real world problem to research and solve using the robot that they built for the tournament.

This year’s theme was Animal Allies and teams had to identify a problem where humans and animals interact and develop a solution that makes the interaction better. Teams used STEM skills, critical thinking skills, teamwork, and a little bit of imagination throughout the competition.

  

Before the competitions, teams presented their research and explained their robot design. In the afternoon, teams will participate in a tournament where they had a limited amount of time to score as many points as possible.  Each team had multiple robot runs to try to achieve the highest score.

The winners were:

Core Value Awards

Inspiration Award – Downtown Lego Dalmations

Teamwork Award – Meadowlark Mavericks

Gracious Professionalism Award – Paisley Bionics

Project Awards

Research Award – Jefferson Mad Minutemen_Gold_Division

Innovative Solution Award – Meadowlark Mustangs

Presentation Award – Hanes Gold Dragons

Robot Design Awards

Mechanical Design Award – Paisley Robotics

Programming Award – Flat Rock RoboNerds

Strategy & Innovation Award – Mineral Springs Bulldogs

Robot Performance Award – Northwest Robofalcons

Overall Champion

Champion’s Award – Clemmons GoBots

This event was sponsored by Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Cook Medical, Small Footprint, and Sterling Audio Visual. 

Clemmons Middle

The Downtown School

Flat Rock

Hanes

Meadowlark Middle

Jefferson

Mineral Springs Middle

Paisley IB Magnet

Another winning Meadowlark team

Northwest