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Fernbank LINKS Robotics

Fernbank LINKS is a middle and high school STEM organization based in Fernbank Science Center devoted to building robots, developing minds, and changing lives.

FRC team 4468
Official Georgia BEST Hub
BEST team 97 We are a robotics team based out of Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We compete in BEST Robotics (Team 97) in the Fall and FIRST Robotics (Team 4468) in the Spring. We also host Science Night Out at Fernbank Science Center during the school year for 3rd through 6th graders.

03/17/2025

First Place in Gwinnett🥇 STATE BOUND
Everyone say thanks Otis for the great corals he was putting down

02/18/2021

Enjoy a fun and exciting night of hands-on STEM activities led by our very own team members. Come join us for our first Science Night Out of the 2021 season! We hope to see you there!

Science Night Out is an evening of hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activities for students in 3rd -6th grades.

12/16/2020

Above all, we have focused on making a reliable high shooting mechanism for the sake of maintaining a well-scoring robot over the course of the 2021 FRC season. However, our team was able to recycle many features of our 2020 robot, such as the intake system, which has seen very little modification, yet is implemented into our current design. Additionally, the build team decided to keep the same base (chassis), since it has proven its durability much in the past. Although this year has caused many troubles, the design and the build team on Fernbank LINKS have made a realistic and reliable design that we hope to compete with in a couple of months from now!

Address

3130 Raymond Drive
Atlanta, GA
30340

Telephone

+14704854468

Website

http://www.fernbanklinks.com/

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Our Story

In 2002, five students from Lakeside High School, sought ways to apply the STEM concepts they were learning in a fun and engaging way. They formed a Team America Rocketry Competition team to explore STEM outside the classroom. As a result, Science Night Out (SNO) was created to assure sustainability. SNO is an evening of hands-on science for students from 3rd through 6th grade, designed to inspire them to pursue interests in STEM through activities like LEGO robotics. SNO is one of our main fundraisers which allows us to continue participating in programs such as FIRST.

The founders formed Fernbank LINKS to have fun and build rockets together. Along the way, LINKS began to start new DeKalb FLL teams and host trainings and tournaments for teams and students who wanted to learn about LEGO Mindstorm Robots. From outreach, our motto, “Building Robots, Developing Minds, Changing Lives,” was born. Fernbank LINKS has become a thriving organization of highly motivated, enthusiastic students who share a common love for STEM.

From 2004 through 2014, LINKS competed in BEST, a national robotics competition. Through BEST, we learned important skills that gave us confidence to compete in FIRST Robotics. In 2011, we helped the North Atlanta Warbotz, a rookie team, build their mini-bot for their first competition, and after two years the team decided to form an FRC Team, the only one in the DeKalb County School District (DCSD). This is our fourth season of FRC as Team 4468-Fernbank LINKS. In 2014, we joined the JR&D robotics alliance, which supports STEM within our community using robots.

We have a legacy of excellence in BEST and FIRST and our goal this year is to continue. Our broader goal is to expand the impact of our program and link more and more people and networking kids with science.