糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock wins Design Award in robotics tournament
糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock's robotics team, "Just a Prototype."The University of Arkansas at Little Rock robotics team won the Design Award in the VEXU Robotics Competition held Dec. 7 at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.聽糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock robotics team members include Gavin Zintel, Alex Alvarez, Khristina Huff, Jerric Jefferson, William Morrison, and Kevin Davidson.In the competition, teams are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. This year’s game is called The Design Award is granted to the team with the most effective and efficient robot design.糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 team, called 鈥淛ust a Prototype,鈥� began competing in 2015. At the time, it was the state鈥檚 only university-level robotics team. Arkansas Tech University now has the second. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock also competed against teams from Mississippi, Tennessee, and Mexico.鈥淎rkansas students are competing on robotics teams in high school, so they want to compete at the college level,鈥� said Sandra Leiterman, math specialist in the STEM Education Center and advisor of the robotics team. 鈥淭hey are pushing colleges to have robotics teams.鈥�鈥淛ust a Prototype鈥� will compete next Feb. 22, 2020, in Houston.
