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Nola Garcia

BattlebotsIQ

A Battlebot

ROBOTS!

The CEO of Battlebots IQ, Nola Garcia,  was the speaker today, and even though she is the cousin of Drew III we let her speak anyway.  And an interesting concept it is.

The basic concept is that when kids are having fun you can sneak knowledge past them, and fun they have.  While there are various means to an end, the basic idea is that kids are given the task of building a robot from scratch - design, build, solder, etc. and then turn the root loose -either to perform a task, or destroy someone else's hard work!  And if you loose you figure out what you did wrong and start all over again!  We also got to see a video of an actual robot competition - and a fierce one it was.  Very cool.

Visit their web site at www.battlebotsiq.com

DISTRICT CONFERENCE - ORLANDO

We were well represented with about 20% of our club there!  Take THAT Weston!  And we came in second in the per capita giving to the foundation this past year - WAY TO GO AL!!!!!