News & Media – RoboJackets

Review our upcoming events, view pictures and descriptions of our ongoing projects in our blog, and check out some of our team features in other media outlets. If you’re interested in receiving more RoboJackets news straight to your inbox, feel free to sign up for our monthly newsletter! The newsletter stories are also listed on our website.

RoboJackets Blog

Moving the Student Competition Center

by Dallas Downing. When RoboJackets was founded in 2000, it was a handful of students making combat robots in the basement of the Howey Physics Building. Today RoboJackets has grown

FRC Kickoff 2021

by Kyla Qi. A core part of the RoboJackets mission is to support local K-12 robotics programs. Since 2008, a major part of the support we provide has been hosting

Meet the Project Managers & Outreach Chair: Interview Feature

RoboJackets (often abbreviated RJ) is an organization that manages to participate in a myriad of robotics competitions and activities to further our mission to promote, educate, and advance the field

Mentoring the First Central American FRC Team

A few of our RoboJackets had a call with Pizzabyte Robotics, a new FRC team from Panama, to prepare for the 2021 season! We talked through planning for the build

New Leadership Elected

In the midst of cancelled competitions and leaving campus, new leaders were elected throughout RoboJackets. Our new leadership teams are working hard to ensure that we can continue making progress

FTC Robot in 1 Weekend Reveal

The RoboJackets are proud to present the reveal of our third Robot in 1 Weekend, Kenobi! Kenobi was designed to compete in the 2019-2020 FIRST Tech Challenge competition, Skystone. This

IARRC Result – First Place!

We are proud to announce that our RoboRacing team has achieved a first place victory at the 2019 International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition in Waterloo! This year our robot, Sedanii,

Celebrating Our 20th Anniversary!

RoboJackets is turning 20 this year! To celebrate, we are hosting an event on March 30th dedicated to robotics at Georgia Tech. This event is open to everyone and admission

Upcoming Events

RoboJackets in the Media

A Tour of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech
as featured by the Georgia Tech College of Engineering on YouTube (March 2020)
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RoboJackets Place First at Annual IARRC
as featured in LIFE@ME, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering newsletter (August 2019)

RoboJackets Achieve Highest IGVC Finish in Team History
as featured in the Georgia Tech Daily Digest (July 2019)

A penne for your thoughts? Watch UW life in the ‘pasta’ lane
as featured in The Record, Waterloo region (July 2019)

Sparkfun AVC – 10 Years Later
as featured in HACKADAY’s Sparkfun AVC coverage video (September 2018)
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