{"55414":{"#nid":"55414","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Landman, Schuster Host Israeli-Arabic Team in FIRST Robotics Championship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast\nweekend saw thousands of students descend upon the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for\nthe FIRST Robotics Championship, the annual robotics competition founded by\nSegway inventor Dean Kamen. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis\nyear, School of Physics Professor Uzi Landman hosted a team of Israeli-Arabic\nstudents from several villages, each with about 2,000 people in eastern Israel. This is\nthe team\u2019s first year to compete in the FIRST competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nteam, which consists of 25 Arab high school students and five teachers, hails\nfrom the Achva Gilboa Comprehensive High School, which serves nine Arabic\nvillages near Nazareth. This school is part of the Israel Sci-Tech Schools Network.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou\ndon\u2019t have to be from Jerusalem or a big city to win the competition, you can\nbe from Gilboa, too,\u201d said Israeli native Landman during a meet-and-greet some\nmembers of the team held with him and Provost Gary Schuster before the\ncompetition started.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis\nyear\u2019s competition boasts more than 10,000 student participants from 30\ncountries competing with 533 homemade robots.\u0026nbsp;Each team has won at\nregional competition to make it to the championships.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nstudents worked seven hours per day after school to build and test their robot\nwith their parents bringing dinner from their home villages every night. \u201cWhen\nwe won the [regional] competition, all of our village came out to help us\ncelebrate,\u201d said Hanan Zoubi, a student on the team. \u201cIt was like a wedding\nwith the caravan of cars that we usually have.\u201d Hanan wants to be involved in\nrobotics when she graduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nname of the team is the Eastern Stars. They have such a love of Star Trek that\nthey named their robot \u201cEnterprise NX-1\u201d after the starship in the television\nseries, \u201cStar Trek: Enterprise.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nEastern Star\u2019s motto is \u201cTechnology for Tolerance.\u201d Although they\u2019re in Atlanta\nto compete at FIRST, using their knowledge to help create a better world is\nfirst in their thoughts. \u201cThis project taught us to work together to use\ntechnology to help other people,\u201d said Hosni Zoubi, a student on the team who\neventually wants to study and work in medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMore\nthan 500 teams competed in three levels of FIRST: FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech\nChallenge and FIRST Robotics Competition. According to a FIRST release, the\nEastern Stars were not included among the winning teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\nhope you win the competition,\u201d Schuster said as their meeting came to a close, prior\nto the event. \u201cIn my view, you already are winners.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhysics Professor Uzi Landman and Provost Gary Schuster play host to a FIRST robotics team from a small village in Israel.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2010-04-19 16:16:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:49","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55417":{"id":"55417","type":"image","title":"Robo Team 2","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Robo Team 2","file":{"fid":"190290","name":"RoboTeam-004.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RoboTeam-004_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RoboTeam-004_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":586833,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RoboTeam-004_0.jpg?itok=kEIrImJP"}},"55416":{"id":"55416","type":"image","title":"Robo team 1","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Robo team 1","file":{"fid":"190289","name":"RoboTeam-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RoboTeam-001_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RoboTeam-001_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":650553,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RoboTeam-001_0.jpg?itok=t1rXimQI"}}},"media_ids":["55417","55416"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9181","name":"FIRST Robotics Competition"},{"id":"9179","name":"Gary B. 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