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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Its day, Uncle Henry Show here on news radio seven
to ten WNTM. In this half hour of show, going
to get to some voicemail and stuff. But first here
in this first segment of this hour, we're going to
talk to a young man who goes to Saint Paul's
for Let me congratulate you on that. I know a
lot of people that wish they could have gone to
(00:37):
Saint Paul's. Come on, say thank you, thank you, thank you,
congratulations for going to Saint Paul's. My guest in this
segment is Jack over Street. Now I invited him in
because he's part of a team that is in a
robot competition this weekend. Tell me where are you going
(00:58):
to compete and are you taking a robot with you? Right?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, So we are going to compete in Troy, Alabama
on November fifteenth, which is this Saturday, and it'll be
a one day competition all day and it'll be fun.
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Okay, So you're going to compete in Troy, Alabama against
a bunch of other schools with a robot. Now, so
Saint Paul's has a team that built a robot. Yes, Now,
what is what is the I've been to one of
I've been to one of these robot competitions before. Oh
and I saw robots like at that time, they were
(01:34):
trying to move things around on a farm or something.
Those robots. What are you? What is your robot going
to do at the robot competition?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So this year's task is the robot is going to
be deciphering truth from misinformation and it's going to do
this through a few different tasks. So basically the robot
can there's these things called factoids, and there are going
to be your true facts and your not so true
fact Now.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Way, now, the robot is gonna sit there and read
things or is it can actually move around?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So the fact toys are little objects and they're gonna be
on a playing field, and the robot is going to
be able to, you know, move around this playing field
pick them up.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, yeah, all right, so it's not real facts. There
are objects that represent facts. Yeah, alright, So your robot's
gonna go move things around and then what else.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So it can do a few different tasks, so it'll
pick them up and basically how much the factoid ways
will tell you if it's true or or if it's fake,
and then it can also go into this content library,
which is this it's this place on the playing field,
and to access it a person from each team because
there's four teams competing at once on a playing field.
Oh and so each team has to press a button
(02:45):
on their side of the field, and once everyone presses it,
all of them can access this content library. And in
the content library, there are going to be about how
many seven factoids and there will be it's a three
tiered like tower and on the top will be one
golden factoid worth ten points, and in the content library,
all these factoids are true, so you don't have to
(03:05):
worry about way.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So you're trying to get your robot to the top
of the thing to grab the golden thing and you
want you want more point instead of the team. Yes, yeah,
so you're going to be playing with a robot and
it's all representing. It all has symbolism, a factoid, symbolism
and misinformation and all this kind of stuff. So what
what uh? What is this doing for you as a
(03:27):
student as somebody going to Saint Paul? Are you learning
how to build robot?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What are you learning so best robotics? It really just
isn't about robots. There's different sectors to the teams. So
there's marketing team exhibit, which is like building a little
exhibit to show off your company. There's programming, There is
a website design, There's a whole a whole lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So it's so it's every aspect. So some people on
your team actually know how to build a robot. Other
people on the team know how to sell it. Yes,
other people know how to program it. Is there somebody
that knows how to clean it, maintain it and all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I want to say, they would go unto the engineers.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, all right, so there's somebody somebody's got to pick
up after the robot, the janitors. So yeah, janitors on
the team. So what are you doing? Are you building
the robot, programming it? What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So? Yeah, so best robot it you make a fictional
company to sell this real robot. But so I'm on
the marketing team. So what I do is I sell
the robot? I talked. I present a presentation to a
board of professors at Troy and they will be ranging
from marketing professors to engineering professors to you know, like
computer science professors and I basically tell them they they're
(04:38):
gonna actually they don't know anything about this, which you know,
we know that's not true.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But yeah, but but you are going to you're gonna
have to market it, and you try to be judged
on whether or not you do a good job marketing
this robot.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, and so they'll give us feedback. And basically what
this competition does for us is it's gonna, you know,
get us used to these stem fields and get you know,
students like it's gonna expose us to these stimulated subjects
and you know, give us real world experiences from the
safety of a you know, juvenile competition.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Really you can't, well you think it's juvenile.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean, I mean, listen, it's it's kids doing it.
But these problems are real worldly.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well I was about to say, don't sound that juvenile
unless unless it has a weird name like Pokey or
or you know, something weird like that. Didn't have a
weird name. What is your robots called? What do you
call your robot this year?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The robot's name is Aiden. Okay, yeah, I don't really
know the name behind it. The engineers came up with that.
They're a little kooky in the head, but you know
that I don't question it. I just let them do
their thing, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I don't know, and listener, I don't know. That might
be marketing to say the engineer's kookie. That might be
something that might help in the marketing of a robot
in twenty twenty five. All right, So is this something
you'd want to do again now that you're getting close
to the competition.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's happening when uh, November fifteenth?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So would you want to do it again? Would you
want to be on a robot team again?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So? Yeah, I've actually competed in this four years in
a row. This will be my fourth year.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Really, yes, what did you do last year?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Last year we designed a robot that went to the moon,
So that was good.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Did you marketing? So I saw the robot that went
to the moon?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Now on this did you do that the other year too? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I've always been on marketing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yes, so you've got to know, well, you better do
what really good? Then?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Now, if you don't do good at Troy with this
marketing professor, that would be that would be tough.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, it would be.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, how do you think you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I want to do great. I'm ready for this.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Okay, good. You think Saint Paul has Saint Paul's won
one of these yet?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yes, so the first actually all four years we've won
top competitor at the competition. Really since year one. You know,
you're we're hoping, four pete, We're hoping. But so you know,
we're pretty we're forced to be reckoned with. So you know,
we're excited. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now were you now, were you on the Saint Paul
teams that won.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
All yes, all four years. So I've been on the
team since sixth grade. Because what's interesting about the team
is that it's not just a high school team or
a middle school team. It's one of our only teams
that is you know, cross cross age interaction.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So but you've got you've you've got the marketing role
and no little no other kid can be the marketer.
That've got to go through you.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, listen, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, Well that's well. I wish you the best.
I hope you do well in this. Yeah. Now, when
you when you get out of Saint Paul's, are you
going to study anything involving marketing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So actually marketing I think is going to be one
of my top interests in life. I know a lot
of people that have been to marketing. I know, like
it's just something that's been interesting to me. I like
talking to people. I'm a very social person, so I like,
you know, talking to people being able to sell things.
I think that's kind of an interesting topic to me.
(08:01):
So I would like to pursue it in college, you know,
study marketing, maybe even go into you know, media sales
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You know, well, whatever you sell, make sure it's high dollar.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I listen, Yes, I will just make sure.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's high dogs. I will sell a yacht, sell something
like that. Jets that'd be good. Sofa sectional, well, a
sofa sectional, I mean, well, if you're selling it to
an entire country, that might be good. If you sold
a lot of them. All right, well, Jack over Street,
I wish you the best. Saint Paul's. Well, now I
have something additional to think about other than college football.
(08:36):
So I think is that you're going to be up
there competing.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right, Well, thank you, Jack, Yeah, all right, there
is more Uncle Embry Show to come after the break
here on News Radio seven to ten WNTM. Let's go
ahead and take the dad gum break.
Its day, Uncle Henry Show here on news radio seven
to ten WNTM. In this half hour of show, going
to get to some voicemail and stuff. But first here
in this first segment of this hour, we're going to
talk to a young man who goes to Saint Paul's
for Let me congratulate you on that. I know a
lot of people that wish they could have gone to
(00:37):
Saint Paul's. Come on, say thank you, thank you, thank you,
congratulations for going to Saint Paul's. My guest in this
segment is Jack over Street. Now I invited him in
because he's part of a team that is in a
robot competition this weekend. Tell me where are you going
(00:58):
to compete and are you taking a robot with you? Right?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, So we are going to compete in Troy, Alabama
on November fifteenth, which is this Saturday, and it'll be
a one day competition all day and it'll be fun.
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Okay, So you're going to compete in Troy, Alabama against
a bunch of other schools with a robot. Now, so
Saint Paul's has a team that built a robot. Yes, Now,
what is what is the I've been to one of
I've been to one of these robot competitions before. Oh
and I saw robots like at that time, they were
(01:34):
trying to move things around on a farm or something.
Those robots. What are you? What is your robot going
to do at the robot competition?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
So this year's task is the robot is going to
be deciphering truth from misinformation and it's going to do
this through a few different tasks. So basically the robot
can there's these things called factoids, and there are going
to be your true facts and your not so true
fact Now.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Way, now, the robot is gonna sit there and read
things or is it can actually move around?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So the fact toys are little objects and they're gonna be
on a playing field, and the robot is going to
be able to, you know, move around this playing field
pick them up.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, yeah, all right, so it's not real facts. There
are objects that represent facts. Yeah, alright, So your robot's
gonna go move things around and then what else.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So it can do a few different tasks, so it'll
pick them up and basically how much the factoid ways
will tell you if it's true or or if it's fake,
and then it can also go into this content library,
which is this it's this place on the playing field,
and to access it a person from each team because
there's four teams competing at once on a playing field.
Oh and so each team has to press a button
(02:45):
on their side of the field, and once everyone presses it,
all of them can access this content library. And in
the content library, there are going to be about how
many seven factoids and there will be it's a three
tiered like tower and on the top will be one
golden factoid worth ten points, and in the content library,
all these factoids are true, so you don't have to
(03:05):
worry about way.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So you're trying to get your robot to the top
of the thing to grab the golden thing and you
want you want more point instead of the team. Yes, yeah,
so you're going to be playing with a robot and
it's all representing. It all has symbolism, a factoid, symbolism
and misinformation and all this kind of stuff. So what
what uh? What is this doing for you as a
(03:27):
student as somebody going to Saint Paul? Are you learning
how to build robot?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What are you learning so best robotics? It really just
isn't about robots. There's different sectors to the teams. So
there's marketing team exhibit, which is like building a little
exhibit to show off your company. There's programming, There is
a website design, There's a whole a whole lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So it's so it's every aspect. So some people on
your team actually know how to build a robot. Other
people on the team know how to sell it. Yes,
other people know how to program it. Is there somebody
that knows how to clean it, maintain it and all
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I want to say, they would go unto the engineers.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, all right, so there's somebody somebody's got to pick
up after the robot, the janitors. So yeah, janitors on
the team. So what are you doing? Are you building
the robot, programming it? What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So? Yeah, so best robot it you make a fictional
company to sell this real robot. But so I'm on
the marketing team. So what I do is I sell
the robot? I talked. I present a presentation to a
board of professors at Troy and they will be ranging
from marketing professors to engineering professors to you know, like
computer science professors and I basically tell them they they're
(04:38):
gonna actually they don't know anything about this, which you know,
we know that's not true.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But yeah, but but you are going to you're gonna
have to market it, and you try to be judged
on whether or not you do a good job marketing
this robot.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, and so they'll give us feedback. And basically what
this competition does for us is it's gonna, you know,
get us used to these stem fields and get you know,
students like it's gonna expose us to these stimulated subjects
and you know, give us real world experiences from the
safety of a you know, juvenile competition.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Really you can't, well you think it's juvenile.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean, I mean, listen, it's it's kids doing it.
But these problems are real worldly.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well I was about to say, don't sound that juvenile
unless unless it has a weird name like Pokey or
or you know, something weird like that. Didn't have a
weird name. What is your robots called? What do you
call your robot this year?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The robot's name is Aiden. Okay, yeah, I don't really
know the name behind it. The engineers came up with that.
They're a little kooky in the head, but you know
that I don't question it. I just let them do
their thing, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I don't know, and listener, I don't know. That might
be marketing to say the engineer's kookie. That might be
something that might help in the marketing of a robot
in twenty twenty five. All right, So is this something
you'd want to do again now that you're getting close
to the competition.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's happening when uh, November fifteenth?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So would you want to do it again? Would you
want to be on a robot team again?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So? Yeah, I've actually competed in this four years in
a row. This will be my fourth year.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Really, yes, what did you do last year?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Last year we designed a robot that went to the moon,
So that was good.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Did you marketing? So I saw the robot that went
to the moon?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Now on this did you do that the other year too? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I've always been on marketing.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yes, so you've got to know, well, you better do
what really good? Then?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Now, if you don't do good at Troy with this
marketing professor, that would be that would be tough.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah, it would be.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, how do you think you're going to do.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I want to do great. I'm ready for this.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Okay, good. You think Saint Paul has Saint Paul's won
one of these yet?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yes, so the first actually all four years we've won
top competitor at the competition. Really since year one. You know,
you're we're hoping, four pete, We're hoping. But so you know,
we're pretty we're forced to be reckoned with. So you know,
we're excited. It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Now were you now, were you on the Saint Paul
teams that won.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
All yes, all four years. So I've been on the
team since sixth grade. Because what's interesting about the team
is that it's not just a high school team or
a middle school team. It's one of our only teams
that is you know, cross cross age interaction.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So but you've got you've you've got the marketing role
and no little no other kid can be the marketer.
That've got to go through you.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, listen, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, Well that's well. I wish you the best.
I hope you do well in this. Yeah. Now, when
you when you get out of Saint Paul's, are you
going to study anything involving marketing? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So actually marketing I think is going to be one
of my top interests in life. I know a lot
of people that have been to marketing. I know, like
it's just something that's been interesting to me. I like
talking to people. I'm a very social person, so I like,
you know, talking to people being able to sell things.
I think that's kind of an interesting topic to me.
(08:01):
So I would like to pursue it in college, you know,
study marketing, maybe even go into you know, media sales
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You know, well, whatever you sell, make sure it's high dollar.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I listen, Yes, I will just make sure.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's high dogs. I will sell a yacht, sell something
like that. Jets that'd be good. Sofa sectional, well, a
sofa sectional, I mean, well, if you're selling it to
an entire country, that might be good. If you sold
a lot of them. All right, well, Jack over Street,
I wish you the best. Saint Paul's. Well, now I
have something additional to think about other than college football.
(08:36):
So I think is that you're going to be up
there competing.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right, Well, thank you, Jack, Yeah, all right, there
is more Uncle Embry Show to come after the break
here on News Radio seven to ten WNTM. Let's go
ahead and take the dad gum break.
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