This Saturday, the 19th of November 2016, the PRHS Robo Lions held their annual Robots at the Ridge Vex Qualifier. The event was a huge blast, and was very successful. One of our teams, team 1261E was even picked for an alliance during alliance selection. We would like to thank all the volunteers, our Judges, and our Referees for making this event great!

Click the link below to go check out the article on the Gwinnett Daily post about our upcoming Robots at the Ridge Vex State Qualifier!
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/peachtree-ridge-robotics-gears-up-to-host-vex-tourney/article_c38a5c12-4862-5273-898e-4068a4ce2e99.html

We, the Robo Lions, would like to invite all of you to come visit us at the Rockwell Automation Fair, Wednesday 11/9 and Thursday 11/10 from 8-4 in the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. We will be showing off our robot and its many features so make sure to come out and visit!

This week we were at our school’s trunk or treat! Our trunk was a star wars theme which we had nicely decorated. We had a robotastic time from Kobe, our vex bot, showing off his dancer moves with the beatbox club, lightsaber fights, and seeing bunch of ghouls, goblins, and super heroes! This was a great opportunity for our team to go out and have some fun with the halloween spirit.

Last Saturday, October 22nd, the Robo Lions headed up to Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville for our off-season event, GRITS. Our rookie drivers were able to get some good drive team experience, and their efforts paid off; we ended qualifiers as the 3rd seed alliance captain. Our alliance included teams 4188 and 2974. We played our best in semifinals but were beat out by the 2nd seed alliance, composed of teams 1746, 2415, and 4468. On behalf of team 1261, we would like to offer our sincere congratulations to those teams; they played an excellent set of matches.
We were honored to win the GRITS outreach award due to our large number of rookies, and we would like to extend a thank you to Georgia FIRST as well as the alumni and volunteers who made this event possible!

The Robo Lions welcomed October celebrating fall outdoors in Decatur at the annual celebration of the most creative minds around- Atlanta MakerFaire! It was our team’s first time at the two-day event, but we were in great company and had a great time with so many of the other Georgia robotics teams. We had a steady stream of people driving VEX robots, catching the ball from our 2014 competition robot, and learning about sensors with our all new sensor board! Many thanks go out to all who gave their time, effort, and materials to make this weekend a success, especially Atlanta MakerFaire!

Duluth Fall Festival: The Robo Lions had a STEM-tacular time at the Duluth Fall Festival, amplifying their mighty roar as they marched on in the parade. With shooting t-shirts from the famous Jeff the T-Shirt Bot and spreading smiles to attendees of all ages, it was an incredible day to embrace the members of the community! This year was even greater than the last, and are thankful for the opportunity to represent our amazing school as well as our robo-tastic team!

The team had a super showing for the Suwanee Day Parade, celebrating the idea “Super City, Super People” as the STEM Heros of Tomorrow! After shooting beach-balls and T-shirts from our float, we were recognized as most entertaining. We finished off the day shooting T-shirts off the stage in Town Center. Many thanks to our sponsors who helped us make it happen and the City of Suwanee!

On August 26, 2016, the Robo Lions were invited to the Maxxis Facility to present the organization’s efforts in advancing the STEM initiative. The team explained the dynamics of their 2016 Stronghold Robot including vision tracking and its autonomous abilities. We explained how this year proved to be fierce but it was no match for Team 1261 who bore through bent metals and broken LEDs. We also demonstrated the astounding durability of the robot’s tires, supplied by Maxxis themselves! The tires braced themselves through 5 FRC competitions, maneuvering over 9 different obstacles randomly placed on the field after every few matches. We loved the chance to demonstrate how Maxxis’ support helped us out throughout the season, and are incredibly grateful for the warm welcome they offered us this week.

On Tuesday 8/16, the Robo Lions hosted their rookie meeting. We were very happy out the turn out and the meeting was a great success! We can’t wait to get this VEX season started with all of our new rookie members!