Team Profiles and Blog
April 3, 2009
RP team qualifies for US robotics contest
MANILA, Philippines—A team of 32 Filipino students and a robot named “Larry Labuyo” won two awards in a robotics regional competition in Hawaii last week, earning for them a shot at the championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
Team Lagablab, composed of 32 third-year students from the Philippine Science High School, beat six other groups from the United States to win the Highest Rookie Seed Award at the regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition in Hawaii held from March 26 to 28.
The award was given to the neophyte delegation that garnered the most wins in the competition.
The team also won the Rookie All-Star award. This was given to the group that exhibited the most cooperation and team spirit.
Team Lagablab will compete with 300 teams from all over the world in the finals slated for April 16 to 18 in Atlanta.
With its entry, a robot named “Larry Labuyo” named after a local fighting cock, the team garnered five wins, five losses and a tie in the event in Hawaii. The Filipino delegation trounced entries from Prospect High School, Mililani High School, Damien Memorial High School, Farrington High School, Mid-Pacific Institute and Kalani High School.
April 2, 2009
QTV: Kwentong Patok
PSHS students bag awards in robotics tilt
Twenty junior high school students of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) - Diliman,
who compose the Philippine Robotics Team, bagged two awards at the 2009 FIRST Robotics
Competition (FRC) in Hawaii, earning them a ticket to Atlanta, Georgia for the Robotics world championship on April 16 to 18.
FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
Called Team Lagablab, the RP team won against six other high school teams from the US and is the sole participant from the Southeast Asia region. The team is composed of 20 high school students taking up Robotics as an elective.
Robotics as a subject is being piloted at the PSHS main campus in Diliman. It is a field of science and engineering concerned with creating robots and devices that can move or react to sensory input and it falls under the Physics subject in high school. Robotics is one of the main research thrusts of the national government under the National Science and Technology Plan.
The team won the Highest Rookie Seed Award, which is given to the neophyte team that gets the highest seed at the conclusion of the qualifying rounds; and the Rookie All-Star Award, which is given to a new team composed of exemplary young students but who possess strong partnership effort and implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.
Bagging the Rookie All-Star Award earned the Philippine team the ticket to the Robotics finals in Atlanta, Georgia.
March 31, 2009
RP team bags awards in int'l robot tilt
MANILA, Philippines—With few resources, guts and vision, the Philippine Science High School team sent to the regional FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in Hawaii bagged two awards, besting over two dozen teams.
The Filipino team also earned a slot in the world finals in Atlanta,Georgia, USA where they would be facing teams from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Turkey and Britain.
Team Lagablab (Filipino for “fiery”) and their robot entry, “Larry Labuyo,” first won the Highest Rookie Seed Award, then the Rookie All-Star Award.
The first award is given to first-time participating teams that get the highest seeds at the end of the qualifying rounds.
The Rookie All-Star Award, on the other hand, puts the Philippines on the top three regional finalists for the International FIRST Robotics Championships.
February 15, 2009
‘Labuyo’ flying to Honolulu
THEY will share their robot information with other teams to win.
This is the rule of the game competition 20 energetic and brilliant young minds from the Philippine Science High School will join in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 26.
They will compete for the first time the FRC Robotics Competition.
However, the students are not the actual players in this basketball-like game called Lunacy but rather the robot they built.
The Lunacy game, according to Dr. Elmer Tadios, chief mentor from De La Salle University, will be played by six remote-controlled robots equipped with slippery wheels and payload trailers in a 54’ x 27’ low friction field.
They will play with orbit balls designated as Moon Rocks, Empty Cells, or Super Cells. Two three-team robot alliances collect and score Orbit Balls in trailers attached to the opposing teams’ robots while human players are positioned around the perimeter of the arena and can score from their stations.
He said the 20 students will randomly select to partner with team opponents and they will play against the three teams.
“This is a competition and at the same time cooperation game where all teams will be their partners as well as the opponents where they will share the information of their robot to win the first round,” said Tadios. They introduced to media “Larry Labuyo,” a robot build by 32 third year high school students of PSHS in Diliman, Quezon City.
February 12, 2009
Highschool students unveil Larry Labuyo, RP's bet to Robotics Competition
Students at the Philippine Science High School on Tuesday launched "Larry Labuyo", the country's bet for the 2009 For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition (FRC).
"(Through this) the students can learn from play with the 'pros' of the science and engineering world, apply math and science concepts to design, build, test and compete with robots, gain hands-on experience in solving real-world problems and discover the excitement and rewards of science and technology careers," Ester Ogena, Director of the Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) said during the launch at the PSHS campus in Quezon City.
Ogena added this is an opportunity for students to engage in an engineering activity.
“We want our students to have the motivation and inspiration to become scientists and engineers by making them experience what it is like to be in the real world. We hope that through the FRC we would be able to give them an insight to the scientific community,” she said.
Winner of FRC will be awarded with scholarship in the schools in the US, she said.
February 11, 2009
‘Pisay’ kids unveil robot ‘Larry Labuyo’ - Inquirer.net
Named after a feisty fowl, this gizmo which has so far cost P2 million* to build better not chicken out.
Students of Philippine Science High School (PSHS) nicknamed “Pisay” have created a robot named “Larry Labuyo” which will be entered into competition in the United States next month.
The Philippines is the only member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to be invited to the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition in Hawaii from March 26 to 28, according to the students’ mentor Dr. Elmer Dadios.
Named after a wild breed of chicken native to the country, Labuyo was formally unveiled Tuesday at the PSHS campus in Quezon City.
* This figure is incorrect, or phrased incorrectly. This value was the value spent for the development of the robot - including fare for team bulding field trips, mentor subsidy, food subsidy and other miscellaneous fees. The actual total cost of the robot so far is a rough 215,000 pesos including the common kit of parts and a budgeted 45,000 for additional parts.
RP 'robot wars' bet unveiled - Philstar.com; ABS-CBN
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) presented yesterday “Larry Labuyo,” the Philippines’ entry to the FIRST Robotics Competition to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from March 26 to 28.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a US-based organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989, aimed at inspiring young people to engage in science and technology.
Science Education Institute (SEI) Director Ester Ogena said the Philippine team is composed of 32 junior students from the Philippine Science High School (PSHS), eight mentors from the University of the Philippines and De La Salle University and three coaches from PSHS.
The Philippine team was registered as Team 3105 also known as “Philippine Team Lagablab.” Lagablab is the Filipino term for flame, burning strong and bright.
Ogena said the robot Larry Labuyo is the only entry from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
February 10, 2000
QTV: Techtrends: Pinoy Robot
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RP team fielding Larry Labuyo in Hawaii robotics contest - GMANews
A 43-member Philippine team is getting ready tocompete in the FIRST Robotics Competition Hawaii Regional on March 26 to 28, the Science Education Institute said on Tuesday.
Competing together with a robot named Larry Labuyo is Team Lagablab, composed of 32 junior students from the Philippine Science High School, eight mentors from the University of the Philippines and De La Salle University and three coaches from PSHS.
FIRST, which stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a US-based organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 aimed at inspiring young people’s interest and participation in science and technology.
February 5, 2009
Umagang Kay Ganda
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