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Northview Students Learn About Robotics From NHS Grad
April 24, 2008
A Northview High School graduate returned to the school Wednesday morning with his college professor to introduce the students to four robots.
Jarrod Brown (pictured above right), who graduated from Northview in 2004, is now a senior in the engineering program at the University of West Florida. He and his professor, William Weber (above left), demonstrated…at least tried to demonstrate…the four robots to the students.
The first, a “Scorbot-ER V Plus” simply did…nothing. “It crashed,” Weber told the students. The Scorbot is a commercially manufactured robot arm.
While the commercially made Scorbot failed, the three student build robots performed without a hitch.
The first, “Sumo Bot” quickly scurried about clearing its defined area of small blocks.
The second used optical sensors to follow a black line over four colored areas. When it was over the yellow area, the yellow LED light would illuminate. When it detected a blue area, the blue LED would illuminate, and it followed the same pattern for the other colors. When it detected a star shape in the blue field, it would stop and proudly play an electronic greeting card sounding “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”.
The third robot was constructed by students at Milton High School. It was designed for a robotic competition where it had to move small bottles faster than its competitors.
“It’s really exciting,” Brown told the NHS students. “It is real fun to get into this kind of stuff.”
“This is a good career move if you are concerned about your standard of living in the future,” Weber said after pointing out that some of the top starting salaries in the nation right now are in the engineering field.
“About half of our grads end up in Fort Walton Beach working for the Department of Defense,” Weber said.
Pictured below: The “Sumo Bot”, the color sensing robot, the Milton High School Robot and the Scorbot. Scroll down to see all four photos. NorthEscambia.com exclusive photos.
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