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Last-minute adjustments are part of the BEST Robotics game. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The students’ first attempt at nanorobotic vein harvesting and coronary artery bypass was not going well.<\/p>\n

Despite the best efforts of Toby Mann, the “surgeon” at the controls, the Mitochondria Biotech team’s robot was having a terrible time picking up sections of veins to be attached to the walls of the heart.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the heart was made of scarlet-painted wood on a big gray rug unrolled over the center of the Aurora South Middle School gymnasium\u2019s hardwood, and the vein sections were of flexible ductwork. The robot, which represented a nanobot swimming the human bloodstream before working its microsurgical magic, was 16 pounds of wood, wire, fasteners, tape, electric motors, an onboard computer, and a bulbous purple stuffed animal mascot. It flew a rainbow flag and was ballasted by 14 rolls of pennies.<\/p>\n

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Mady Eidman, a Highlands Ranch STEM School senior and Mitochondria Biotech engineering team lead, prepares to perform surgery in round three of the prelims. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mitochondria Biotech was the brainchild of Toby and 22 teammates from Highlands Ranch STEM School\u2019s high school BEST Robotics<\/a> team. They had spent many hours over the past eight weeks preparing for a competition that was about much more than robots. Since its founding by two Texas Instruments engineers 31 years ago, the nonprofit BEST Robotics has emphasized not only STEM education among middle school and high school students but also teamwork, communication, creativity, community and fun. Some 3,500 volunteers around the country help make it happen.<\/p>\n

Dakota Mann, 26, was one of those volunteers. He is a Lockheed Martin systems engineer now but was on the Highlands Ranch STEM School\u2019s BEST Robotics team through middle and high school. He has continued as a mentor to his old high school team on which his younger brother Toby now competes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll ask questions about how gear systems work or what\u2019s the best way to give this pitch,\u201d said Mann. \u201cBut everything is student-led.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the pitches Mitochondria Biotech made was to UCHealth. Given that this year\u2019s competition was called \u201cIncision Decision,\u201d with the competition involving a training platform modeled on minimally invasive surgery, it seemed like a good fit. And it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to support the younger generation because they\u2019re going to be the ones working at UCHealth in the future,\u201d said Tomas Estrella, a UCHealth brand innovation strategist who was on hand for the Front Range BEST Robotics competition in Aurora on Saturday, Nov. 4.<\/p>\n

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Sasha Weiden, right, works an interactive display as Mitochondria Biotech teammate Raaga Devarasetti looks on. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Highlands Ranch STEM School puts on quite a display<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The team recruited multiple sponsors and hosted fundraisers to cover spending of about $11,000. (BEST Robotics makes clear that teams need no money to participate, and the organization supplies both consumables and to-be-returned materials, the returnables including electric motors, the onboard computer, and such. What can be used is either provided or delineated with NASCAR-esque strictness.)<\/p>\n

UCHealth\u2019s contribution funded much of a display booth that would have been at home at a professional trade show. A computer numerical control-milled wooden sign mounted on high read, \u201cExhibit brought to you by UCHealth.\u201d Highlands Ranch STEM School juniors Alexander \u201cSasha\u201d Weiden and Raaga Devarasetti explained and demoed the various interactive displays. This was their fifth year doing BEST Robotics, and they were now leading teams: Sasha heading up outreach, Raaga in charge of \u201cspirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sasha Weiden, right, works an interactive display as Mitochondria Biotech teammate Raaga Devarasetti looks on. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibit \u2013 completed, like the robot itself, in a matter of weeks \u2013 included a life-size version of the old Operation<\/a> game, substituting something the size of salad tongs for tweezers and custom 3D-printed widgets for plastic organs. It was no easier. The idea was to demonstrate the difficulty of surgeries without aid from the team\u2019s imagined nanobot. A custom-coded and constructed video display controlled by red, green, white, and yellow buttons plus a joystick described the various functions of their robot during microsurgeries inside the human body.<\/p>\n

Next to that lay a CPR dummy under a convincing-looking mockup of a surgical lamp. A big syringe next to the dummy showed how the nanobot would be injected into the bloodstream. Next came a tablet PC featuring a rotatable 3D model of their robot. Tapping certain spots yielded functional descriptions. Then an org chart and partially invented charts, here financials, there the effectiveness of the nanobot-driven surgery versus conventional methods for cardiac ablation, brain biopsy, vein harvesting, artificial heart valves, coronary bypass, and angioplasty. The team had not selected these categories randomly.<\/p>\n

Front Range BEST Robotics competition: in the arena<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Because over in the gym, Mitochondria Biotech\u2019s penny-laden bot would be performing macroscopic facsimiles of those very procedures while competing against bots built by five other schools (Mountain Vista High School, D\u2019Evelyn Junior-Senior High School, Bethlehem Middle School, and Academy ACL) as well as Highland Ranch STEM\u2019s own middle school team.<\/p>\n

They did so amid the drumbeats of nine inverted Lowe\u2019s and Home Depot buckets from the Mitochondria Biotech team alone. Student Cerin Koenig wore a white robot costume evoking a more cylindrical Michelin Man. Blue and yellow face paint decorated cheeks; gold and blue streamers fluttered in hair. The vibe evoked more the fan section of a pro soccer game than an engineering-based endeavor, and it was good that way.<\/p>\n

\"Team
Team Mitochondria, in gray shirts, took their team spirit seriously. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Referees wearing zebra shirts monitored multiple three-minute rounds of pseudosurgeries. Mitochondria Biotech, going for the coronary bypass\u2019s big points, got a hard lesson in risk-reward when their bot\u2019s design proved imperfectly matched to the task at hand. They ended up taking fourth \u2013 two spots behind Highlands Ranch STEM\u2019s middle school team, which sported matching black shirts that read, \u201cWE FAILED MED SCHOOL,\u201d followed below by harder-to-read \u201cBut Became Engineers.\u201d For the younger cohort, bragging rights were secured.<\/p>\n

Yet, all was not lost for Mitochondria Biotech. To incorporate the various disciplines involved in a technology business and involve kids with diverse interests, BEST Robotics competitors are judged on more than just robotic performance. And so the team\u2019s strong showings in the Best Exhibit, Marketing Presentation, and Spirit and Sportsmanship categories, among others, lifted them to second place overall \u2013 and with that, a trip to the regional finals at the Denver Coliseum on Dec. 16-17. May they have just as much fun there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The students’ first attempt at nanorobotic vein harvesting and coronary artery bypass was not going well. Despite the best efforts of Toby Mann, the “surgeon” at the controls, the Mitochondria Biotech team’s robot was having a terrible time picking up sections of veins to be attached to the walls of the heart. 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