Blackwater Robotics participates in AMS
Published 2:00 pm Monday, June 3, 2024
Blackwater Robotics mentors Claire Mayo and Kyle Johnson, Ben Nickless and Terry Nienaber from NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, an AMS attendee, and Nate Laverdure of Jefferson Lab in Newport News look on as the team launches a note from the 2024 robot Titanic. (Photo submitted by Blackwater Robotics Team Media)
Students La’Tyra Cary and Marshall Phillips discuss topics in Robotics and STEM with an AMS attendee. (Photo submitted by Blackwater Robotics Team Media)
Students Marshall Phillips and Jazmin Davis speak with two AMS attendees about the team robot. (Photo submitted by Blackwater Robotics Team Media)
Mentor Kyle Johnson speaks with two AMS attendees about the team’s robot and robotics. Summer Hill and mentor Claire Mayo also spoke with an AMS attendee about the team’s robot. (Photo submitted by Blackwater Robotics Team Media)
A representative from CarboSpaceTech GmbH Company of Immenstaad, Germany, shows Robotics Team members what they do to support space exploration. Team members La’Tyra Cary, Jazmin Davis, and Rico Alexander are pictured. (Photo submitted by Blackwater Robotics Team Media)
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By Brandon Yanna
On Wednesday, May 15, Blackwater Robotics participated as an exhibitor in the Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium, which was hosted by NASA and Lockheed Martin and held at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.
The team was a 2024 Dr. Charles Coale Robotics Team awardee, and as part of this prestigious honor, it demonstrated the robot and presented technical information to attendees from around the world.
The Dr. Charles Coale Award was originally established to help young individuals who have the potential to make significant contributions to the fields of science, medicine, and/or engineering. In 2022, the AMS began awarding student Robotics Teams to help fill the pipeline for future mechanism engineers.
The team thanked Ben Nickless and Terry Nienaber from the Langley Research Center in Hampton for considering and ultimately honoring the Blackwater Robotics Team with the Coale Award this year.
