We are ATEMS.

"Finding Problems and Creating Solutions." - Raiden P.

ATEMS students are dedicated to expanding our team and our mission. Our excellent group of students strives to learn and grow. Aidan B. said that he loves "using real skills to solve real problems." ATEMS Robotics is dedicated to problem-solving. In all that we do, we strive to overcome obstacles and to help others do the same.

We will expand our goal.

Future

We are dedicated to growth. ATEMS Robotics strives to increase STEM involvement from our team to our area. In the upcoming years, we will foster new VEX teams in our area equipping students with more 21st Century skills. ATEMS will achieve this by hosting the Big Country VEX Competition. We will expand our goal to help more people aid students in applying STEM concepts and the Engineering Process to robotics.

Life at the LIFT

- The effect of the new facility on ATEMS Robotics -

During the summer of 2021, the new LIFT Center was constructed. Taking the back of a classroom that the robotics teams used before and replacing it with a brand new, wide-open space to spread out and build. Robotics team members now get the opportunity to use the collaboration area to test out their robots and perfect their code.

Tipping point 2021-2022

In Tipping Point, alliances (composed of 2 teams: red and blue) compete in matches that consist of an Autonomous period and a Driver Controlled period. The objective of this game is to score the most points by scoring Rings, moving Mobile Goals to Alliance Zones, and by elevating on platforms

COVID-19's Impact On ATEMS Robotics

Before 2020, certain precautions were not on many people's minds. But as the year progressed and more dangers started to appear; changes to keep everyone safe had to be made within the robotics and Abilene community. Robotics used to be very hands-on and still is to this day, but the way it is hands-on has changed. Before COVID-19 made its way into our lives: robotics would travel to compete, go to local schools to engage young students in the world of S.T.E.M, teach the robotics team the values of working as a school and with working with others, and ceremonies to celebrate the achievements' within the robotics team as a whole. With COVID-19, the robotics team has had to change the way that they engage with the community and with each other. They now have to wear masks, social distance, sanitize workspaces, and make the spread and introduction of S.T.E.M. halt for young students.

Pre-COVID-19 (Dec. 9, 2019)

Tower Takeover 2019-2020

Tower takeover was held in Abilene, TX on Dec. 9, 2019, and it was a competition based on gathering certain colored cubes and stacking them on top of each other to earn points. Each cube starts out at 1 point, but the team that scores that cube into the appropriate tower can gain a point for the team. Stacking cubes into a tower also helps gain points for the team. The team with the most overall points wins tower takeover.

Change-Up 2020-2021

Change up is a competition made up of two opposing teams. These teams are trying to get their robots to score their corresponding color into a goal. Once the team gets their ball into a goal they receive a point. If they score into a connected row they would then receive six points. In the autonomous period, the teams have a chance to earn one win point by completing their home row.

Mid COVID-19 (Dec. 16, 2020)

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