Red Bank Elementary hosts Robot Drone League Competition

RED BANK, Tenn. (WDEF) — Future engineers showed off their talents at Red Bank Elementary on Saturday in the Robot Drone League Competition.

They put their skills to use by highlighting drones and rovers.

“Kids have to take robots and drones and put them into a simulated gameified environment of taking corn putting it into an accelerator which is the Bio-builder accelerator. Taking that and engineering their own DNA to be drought and fungus resistant,” CEO of Streamworks Dennis Courtney said.

Courtney says the event tried to bring real problems to life by finding new ways to solve problems with technology.

Student engineer Sean Drugman said, “I’ve been working on drones since I was a kid, so its something that I really connected with… and I got the team on board with it so we kind of just put a lot of effort into it and built a team for it. We are excited to be back here competing.”

Drugman has been flying drones his entire life.

He believes his experience building drones will help become an aerospace engineer one day.

“All these different task these kids have to be able to accomplish in a collaborative effort. Ten minute match, the first minute being anatomist where the robot drones have to work purely off all code. There’s so much that’s going on so much communication and collaboration required on the teams because one, two, three people cannot accomplish this by themselves. They have to work as a collective unit,” Courtney said.

Tennessee Valley Robotics, in collaboration with Red Bank Elementary, hosted the annual Robot Drone League Competition.

The event brought students from diverse backgrounds to compete in a collaborative STEM game format.