Students at southwest Atlanta elementary school create robots – WSB-TV Channel 2

ATLANTA — On the Kindezi school field at Gideons Elementary School in southwest Atlanta, what may seem like child’s play is anything but.

“It’s very complicated,” said 5th grader Jace Williams. Berndt Petersen from Channel 2.

Williams and his classmates built a robot.

4th grader Jeremiah Westover named his team’s robot WALL-E Wonka, Junior.

“His name is Gary,” Williams said.

“There is a solar panel at the top. The solar panel captures sunlight and turns it into energy for the robot’s wheels,” Westover said.

23 students from the school’s Gifted program, all Elon Musks in the making, have just completed an intensive robotics course. On Friday they presented the results.

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The school is located in the Pittsburgh community.

It’s an underserved area where kids can face many obstacles, but the coordinator of the gifted program says at this school, they overcome them.

“Their financial situation means nothing,” said coordinator Shanee Patterson. “As soon as you have someone who cares enough to show him what he can do, he’ll be more than happy to come on board and do it.”

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It was designed to be a robot race, but the young inventors learned that not all experiments go as planned.

“Well, the sun decided it didn’t want to shine,” Williams said.

Petersen advised students to take their complaints to Brad Nitz, lead meteorologist for Severe Weather Team 2.

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