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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 11, 2017
The Georgia Tech-Shenzhen team consisting of Fandi Peng, Melvin Mathew, Siddhartha Jaitly and Aishwarya Balwani competed in the 2017 IEEE UBTECH-Education Robotics Design Challenge in China on August 4, 2017 and finished 2nd among the 26 teams that made to the final round of competitions. The GT-Shenzhen team received a gold award and 10,000 RMB in prize money. More than 100 teams involving 800 students from different universities in China have signed up for the competition. After months of hard work, the GT-Shenzhen team produced a winning design which is a Python framework for UBTECH’s alpha robot so that users can learn coding online easily and interactively with the robot.