{"252901":{"#nid":"252901","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"GTRI Mentors Show Their BEST in Robotics Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo high school teams scoring first and second places in the BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Georgia Robotics competition on Oct. 29, 2011, have something in common: Engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) serve as team mentors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrincipal Research Engineer \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/team\/faculty\/collins\u0022\u003ETom Collins\u003C\/a\u003E helped mentor the Fernbank LINKS team from DeKalb County Schools to a first-place finish, while Research Engineer Bob Baggerman\u2019s Grady High School team took second place. In 2010, the Grady High team took the overall top prize.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-11-09 13:25:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:48","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/news\/gtri-mentors-show-their-best","dateline":{"date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"79411","name":"BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Georgia Robotics competition"},{"id":"416","name":"GTRI"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"79421","name":"Tom Collins"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}