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Competition: Outbreak Results

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Infection within the human body begins to spread at the cellular level. Infected cells spread disease to neighboring cells rapidly, which then spread the disease to their neighboring cells, and so on as the infection grows to take over the body. BEST Robotics is experimenting with the use of micro-robotics to isolate infected cells from others and apply localized vaccines to slow or stop the spread. Robots that can operate at this level quickly and efficiently prove invaluable to the medical world.  In this year’s game micro-robots directed by medical professionals were capable of sampling, identifying, and separating individual cells to isolate the infected areas, as well as apply the vaccines where needed to immunize groups of cells to stop the “Outbreak”. 

Game Day Photos

2020 BEST Robotics Game Field - Pike Co Schools Center for Advanced Academics & Accelerated Learning. Robotic is seeking infected cells on the game field. The small table is called a low platform where the cells can hide. 
2020 BEST Robotics Game Field Set - Pike Co Schools Center for Advanced Academics & Accelerated Learning team members. Team members administering vaccine to infected cells. Each block is either an uninfected cell, infected cell, immune cell, or is a super vaccine. On this field you can see the high and the low platform where cells can be. 
2020 BEST Robotics Game Field Set Up Straughn High School team members getting ready to start game. On the left, driver is in The drivers box, spotter is in the spotter’s box with remote and the robot is in starter box. Picture on right, is the 2020 BEST Robotics Game Field Straughn School team members driving robot and the spotter is testing the vaccine. The spotter is allowed to put the vaccine on the robot. 
2020 BEST Robotics Game Field Zion Chapel School members. BEST Robotics Game is over and team members are testing cells for infection and adding up scores. 
2020 BEST Robotics Game Field with Robot Demo Zion Chapel School team members are in the driver’s box, spotter’s box, and the robotic is moving the cells to the spotter. The spotter is waiting to get the cells so that he can test the vaccine. 

2020 Parade of Robots

Pike County Schools Center for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning 
Team # 2254

Straughn High School
Team #2271

Thurgood Marshall Middle School
Team #2267

Zion Chapel School
Team #2269

 

2020 Competition Awards

Outbreak - Adjusting to the threat

Classroom Competition: November 21, 2020

Engineering Notebook

1st Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

2nd Place

Straughn High School

3rd Place

Zion Chapel School

Web Page Design

1st Place

Thurgood Marshall Middle School

2nd Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

3rd Place

Straughn High School

Founder’s Award for Creative Design

Straughn High School

Robot Performance

1st Place

Zion Chapel School

2nd Place

Straughn High School

3rd Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

Critical Robot Design

1st Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

2nd Place

Straughn High School

3rd Place

Zion Chapel School

BEST Award Category

BEST Award

1st Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

2nd Place

Straughn High School

Exhibit in Informal Interviews

1st Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

2nd Place

Thurgood Marshall Middle School

3rd Place

Straughn High School

Marketing Presentation

1st Place

Pike County Schools for Advanced Academics and Accelerated Learning

2nd Place

Straughn High School

3rd Place

Thurgood Marshall Middle School

2020 Straughn High School BEST Robotics Team on Awards Day. 
2020 Straughn High School BEST Robotics Team posing with trophies on Awards Day.  
2020 Thurgood Marshall BEST Robotics Team Awards Day 
2020 Pike Co School trophies for Academic Awards Day 
2020 Pike Co High School best robotics team poses with trophies on Awards Day 
2020 Bullock County teacher and robotics coach on Awards Day 
2020 Zion Chapel Best Robotics Team with their trophies on Awards Day