Congratulations to the TEACH "Engineer Army" Robotics Team.  On Saturday, February 6th they won the Connect Award in FTC North-West Georgia Regional Qualifier Game was held at East Cobb Middle School.

This award is given to the team that most connected with their local community and the engineering community.  A true FIRST team is more than a sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to their success.  The recipient of this award is recognized for helping the community understand FIRST, the FIRST Tech Challenge, and the team itself.  The team that wins this award is aggressively reaching out to engineers and exploring the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science and technology.  In addition, this team has a clear fundraising goal and plan to achieve that goal.

Our team had received the Inspire Award is the most prestigious FTC award, in FTC North Georgia Qualifier Game and qualified for the State Championship will be held at Southern Polytecnic State University on February 20th, 2010.

Congratulations to the TEACH RoboStallions
"Engineer Army" Robotics Team.  On Saturday, January 16th they won the highly coveted FTC  Inspire Award at the North Georgia Regional Qualifier.

The Inspire Award is the most prestigious FTC award, The team was chosen by the judges as having best represented a role model FIRST Tech Challenge Team.  To win the award the team had to be a top contender for all judging categories which were on field competition,  robotic design and strategy, community involvement and documenting their build strategy and process in an engineering notebook.  They  have now qualified for the State Championship being held on February 20, 2010.

Team members Aarth Thakore, Reid Kersey, Trevor Daniel, David Purcell, Jackson Morgan, Brennon  Bukavics  and Andrew Powell Participated at the regional qualifier.  The entire team which  includes Ian Fraser and Michael Penna  who have recent left TEACH put in many days and long hours getting ready for the competition.  They had to overcome several difficult obstacles such as developing an effective ball collection and shooting mechanism and redesigning the robots gear mechanism just hours before the competition because the robot was too big and would not pass inspection.

Congratulations to all the team members and their Teachers and coaches, Tahir Duzyol, Ali Polat, Mert Gokaya,  Beth Kersey, Tim Fraser for a job well done.  TEACH charter High members should be  proud and share in this significant accomplishment, as shown in the words of the Judge announcer at the competition "The winners of this years FTC Highest award, the Inspire award, goes to a group of students from a small school with a great all round team robotics team that embodies the spirit of First Tech Challenge. A team that is a model to all other teams for design, engineering, being a strong competitor, team spirit, community involvement, build strategy and engineering notebook - TEACH Engineering Army".

In only one day you will learn to make a robot and compete with other robots to win some very cool awards. Lunch and a Robotics T-Shirt are included as partof the fun!.