by Erica Rodriguez, Victoria Advocate
Remove oil drills. Cap the oil wells. And do it all with Lego robots in less than two minutes. It’s a task students, in a new Career and Technology Institute robotics class, will soon take on using a table-top course as an oil field, soda cans for oil wells and a robot built from Legos. “It’s got to be able to do it all by itself in two minutes,” said Joseph Holochwost, the robotics class instructor, pointing to the plastic machine. “So it’s not only the structural design of the robot, but it’s the program that makes it automated.” The robotics students spent the fall semester gearing up for the competition, building the robot from a Lego kit, programming it during classes and testing it on the course. The students will compete for the first time next week at a regional Lego Mindstorms Robotics Challenge in Corpus Christi.
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/dec/27/er_visd_robotics010210_123588/?features&education
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