Northwise robotics club gets donations from businesses for upcoming competition.
Local companies have once again shown their support for local schools by helping out with donations to the Northside Science club in Cedartown.
The club and school will soon be hosting their first ever robotics competition in April, and ahead of the event the two companies teamed up with donations with 24 Sphero robots to be used by local students and teams from around the area, along with supplies to help build courses for these robots to navigate.
Sphero is a robot that when programmed by students operate totally autonomously without any help from the students.
Waste Industries provided the new robots, while Home Depot donat- ed t he materials f or courses, according to a release from Northside Elementary’s Joshua Bearden, who sponsors the club.
He and Lawana Gurley are also the head of the Northside Dawgbots robotics team, which will be the home team for the upcoming April event.
The pair in the release said t hey were both thankful for the support from Waste Industries.
“Without this support and help this competition would not be possible,” the release stated. “The HON Co. and Clay Cooper have also been supporters of the program at Northside in recent weeks as well. HON donated $500 to help not only the Dawgbots, but also the Science Olympiad program as well.
Check out the robotics competition coming up on April 15 at Northside Elementary, with more details to come about who will be participating against the Dawgbots.
Those interested in helping out with more donations for the event can contact Bearden or Gurley at Northside Elementary at 770-748-4932.