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Hilton Head Island High School robotic teams coach, John Quindlen, was all smiles during a demonstration of the team’s latest creation. While robotics teams from Hilton Head Island Middle School and Hilton Head Island Elementary School looked on, the machine lifted an inflatable cushion as programmed.
The robot utilized a complicated series of gears to amass its considerable lifting power (it can reportedly lift a person, so stay on its good side) from an underpowered motor in the base.
It’s this area of expertise that will get funded by a $500 teacher innovation mini-grant from the Foundation for Educational Excellence. The robotics team is one of many to receive foundation mini-grants. The foundation gave a total of nearly $5,000 to schools across Beaufort County for books, electronics and supplies (read this story on our website, www.hiltonheadmonthly.com for the full list).
The robotics team’s grant was designed to help “develop a test procedure and protocol that will evaluate how various gear ratios improve the efficiency of electronic motors with varying torque capabilities. This will allow the school’s robotics team to optimize available power allowed in this year’s FIRST Robotics Competition.”
Look to future editions of Monthly for details on the robotics
team’s competition, plus the Foundation for Educational Excellence’s Jewels and Jeans fundraiser in March.
