Servo - June 2012

Robotics — uses an activated pincher to grab its opponent and drag them toward the drop-out zone.

GCRS provides a great crowd for South Florida builders to get together and compete frequently. The Ram Robotics team makes trophies for the winners, The Robot Marketplace gives gift certificates, and even Fingertech Robotics gave Silver Spark motors to the winners at GCRS 8. GCRS is always great fun, and the perfect excuse to keep redesigning and improving our bots. SV

Shazbot, Top Gun, Thorn, Black & Decker Robot Wrecker, Platypus, and a brave little R/C

car get ready for the Antweight rumble.

EVENTS

Upcoming Events for July

Scheile Museum Clash of the Bots 3 will be presented by the Carolina Combat Robots. It will take place in Gastonia, NC on July 14, 2012. For further information, go to www.carolinacombat.com. SV

INTERVIEW

Tool City Robobots Leverages Combat for Learning

For the past six years, middle and high school students from across Crawford County, PA have been building ever-increasing powerful 15 pound combat robots to compete in the annual Tool City Robobots competition hosted by the Crawford County School District and National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) of North West Pennsylvania. This past April, 32 teams from 19 schools competed in the most action-packed hard-hitting tournament yet. After the smoke and carnage had been cleared, SERVO sat down and

● by Chris Olin

spoke with the facility advisors from two of the leading schools in this program.

Chris Yost has been the head of the Cochranton High School Robobots program since 2008. He has a bachelor’s degree in Science and Technology, and a teaching certification in Technology Education/Applied Engineering and Technology from the California University of Pennsylvania. He also has a Master’s degree in Education Leadership from Edinboro University. He is Solid Works CSWA certified, and has extensive knowledge of precision machining, parametric modeling, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), construction technologies, digital electronics, graphic and multimedia design, and mechatronics.