GEAR Tournament

GEAR

During the robotics pre-season, Toltechs, 499 had the opportunity to work with elementary students from EISD and other districts from surrounding San Antonio. An Invitational GEAR (Getting Excited About Robotics) tournament was held at the Edgewood Academy.

Eight schools attended with over fifteen total teams, Toltech members helped each elementary team perfect their robot for the “all day” competition by mentoring after-school and holding a practice event a week before the competition. Team 499 saw this as an opportunity to develop future recruits and introduce the excitement of robotics to elementary students. The day was filled with hard work, fun play, and most importantly, quality mentoring. The founder of Toltechs, 499, Andrew Schuetze, mentioned the importance of mentoring to the elementary students. “The key is to tap into that natural inventiveness and focus it toward higher levels of real-world problems solving in the fun and excitement of a Coopertition." (Combination of Cooperation and Competition)

We used a 'Camp-on-a-Disk' Challenge from the Robotics Academy of Carnegie-Mellon University.



GEAR During the robotics pre-season, Toltechs, 499 had the opportunity to work with elementary students from EISD and other districts from surrounding San Antonio. An Invitational GEAR (Getting Excited About Robotics) tournament was held at the Edgewood Academy. Eight schools attended with over fifteen total teams, Toltech members helped each elementary team perfect their robot for the “all day” competition by mentoring after-school and holding a practice event a week before the competition. Team 499 saw this as an opportunity to develop future recruits and introduce the excitement of robotics to elementary students. The day was filled with hard work, fun play, and most importantly, quality mentoring. The founder of Toltechs, 499, Andrew Schuetze, mentioned the importance of mentoring to the elementary students. “The key is to tap into that natural inventiveness and focus it toward higher levels of real-world problems solving in the fun and excitement of a Coopertition." (Combination of Cooperation and Competition) We used a 'Camp-on-a-Disk' Challenge from the Robotics Academy of Carnegie-Mellon University.