K-8 School Contest

Update (02/18/08):
The Design-A-Robot and Design-A-Rollercoaster contests were very successful. The top winners were supposed to come work alongside the team members from Teams 1515 and 161. Due to the quality of all the entries, BHHS Robotics has decided that all entries were winners and that every student that submitted an entry will be invited to a Future Engineer Day.

This year, the Robotics Team put together a Design-Your-Own-Robot Contest for our four local elementary schools. Similarly, for the four middle schools, they put together a more complex Design-Your-Own-Roller-Coaster Contest. Hoping to spark children’s interest in the fields of science and engineering, they worked hard to create a set of rules and guidelines to give the kids a realistic approach to modern technology. The team's builders and business members cooperated enthusiastically to exhibit the different approaches that the children could use to complete this assignment creatively. The response the team received from the children has been incredible. Many students rushed to share their ideas of robots or roller coasters with the team. The winners of the contests will have a chance to come to the Beverly Hills High School for a day, work with Team MorTorq, and learn how the team is run. It’s great for the team to be able to share their interest and knowledge of FIRST and engineering with younger students and also to be looked up to as role models. The team looks forward to continuing this contest every year to get elementary and middle schoolers involved in the high school FIRST Robotics program.