With heroic efforts on the part of our autonomous programmers, our build team fixing a "night before the tournament" servo break, our drivers practicing for hours, our parents feeding us while we coded, drove, turned screws, and strategized, our inventory management team finding all the right parts, our coaches cheering us on, our social media team documenting our work, and our amazing alliances (shout out to the fantastico ZOROBOTS) and support crew (we couldn't have done it without your help Robonoodles!) we are proud to announce that we were one of 36 teams selected to participate in the Regional Tournament coming up on March 16.
Our little team that could, in it's 2nd year, huffed and puffed (coded and built) through some tough competition! Francis (our robot) has been put through its paces and with rubber bands, velcro, cable ties, and a lot of sweat it got us through this season.
Everyone on our team put their heart into our portfolio presentation for the judges, answering tough questions about our engineering process, our challenges, how we work as a team, and asking each person to describe the season in one word ("innovation" was a VERY common answer as was "challenging"). The judges awarded us 2nd place for the MOTIVATION award and we are clucking with joy! Thank you judge Peggy Han for capturing the moment!
We have learned so much about how to keep ourselves accountable, how to support one another as a team, and how to go back to the drawing board when someone breaks or doesn't work out how we expected.
There were some seriously advanced 'bots at the last tournament and we were able to talk to so many other teams about what strategies they used to come up with their design. We have a lot of work to do to get ready for March 16!
Watch this website for updates, and for info on the FTC robotics demonstration coming up at the Del Mar Fairgrounds this June!
