nationals
 

who is submitting a chairmans award at nats? whats it like?

Teams that win regionals
 

Submit thier entry to national so there will be only 17 entries

my team won a regional chairmans and i was just wondering what we were up against

TechnoKats.....
 

We the TechnoKats will have a chairmans award at Nationals (we won at MMR)...

I also know that team 49 won the chairmans award in Buckeye.

:)

Team 159 won at Pacific Northwest Regional.

GRT
 

Gunn Robotics, Team #192, won at Silicon Valley.

We highlight in our documentary style video:

-our team's year round projects (design challenges, shop renovations over the summer, local soapbox durby, community outreach projects in the fall)

-Strong mentor/student and student/student relationships due to these projects

-The educational value of Gunn's Engineering Tech class (which all members of GRT are enrolled in)

-Our student leadership, management, and machining

-The 2 1/2 week design challenge for 5th grade students in our area which we created, organized, and ran at 7 classrooms (a total of 200 5th graders).

-We also are active with the FIRST lego leauge, volunteering at competitions and as former mentors of a orthpedically handicapped team of 2nd through 5th graders.


All members learn machining and participate in our community outreach projects. Our funding comes from student lead fundraising presentations to local companies, selling ice cream bars, and from student written grants. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

Good luck to all the great submissions that have made it to Florida- it's going to be a tough competition!

Sincerely,
Caroline Conley
Gunn Robotics, #192
cconley@gunnrobotics.org

Tough competition......
 

MOE (365) won in Philly

Nice team.......Strong program....one of their adults also got the volunteer award.......not sure of specifics

Robodogs (435) won at VCU

Sponsored a LL regional, mentored LOTS of new teams, ton o' outreach, definite FIRST-spirit


Lisa T

148 Won Lone Star
 

They had a really good entry as i recall.


BTW did any of you guys take home any other awards? (given out by the judges)

Team 311, the Red Jammers, won the Long Island Regional Chairman's. Among other stuff we've done...

- Large student (including many non-Robotics members) participation in new "Principles of Engineering" course that's heavily influenced by FIRST

- Took last year's robot around to every kindergarden, elementary school, and junior high in the district to help get kids interested in FIRST as well as technology and science in general

- Mentored rookie Long Island-area FIRST teams as well as our own FIRST Lego League program... goals, balls, and tools in pit area were community property

- Great relationship with the school board (quadrupled our funding this year)

- Even better relationship with the East Islip community (we hold several community fundraisers - a square dance, pancake breakfasts, car washes just this year - and we've taken the robot to minor league baseball games as well as "marching" it in this year's Homecoming parade)

- Massive participation by the school's student body - 60+ students involved in Robotics, while our band, kickline, and cheerleaders all attended and performed at the LI regional

- Robot is 100% student designed and built :)


As for awards, no, we didn't win any others, though I noticed that the Regional Chairman's winners at the other competitions were conspicuously absent from most other awards. Hmm..

philly chairmans award winner
 

Thanx Bear Feat!

[I know It's a lot of reading ~sorry~]

I am the co-captain of the Miracle Workerz -team 365 /MOE- And function as a Chairmans Award rep. / Pit Crew member.

John (adult mentor -one of the two volunteers of the year from the Philly regional. The other was from the Wissahickon team. -Yeah Wissahickon!!!-), Brian (chassie driver), and I; are the chairmans award reps for MOE.

This is the basic MOE info....
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Our team is based in Wilmington, DE. And is made-up of 30 students from 8 highschools and 1 homeschool student. We travel in from three states... Pa., Del., and Maryland.

Our homeschool student tried to get on another team but he was denied because he was not a student at their highschool, so he went to FIRST where he was hooked-up with our team. He also has one of the longest commutes on the team, having to drive two hours to attend meetings.
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Our team has helped boost FIRST in the tri-state area, helping other local teams and touring with the robot. Some typical stops for MOE durring the year are...

Take your Daughter to Work day (@ DuPont)
Trips to each of the highschools that students on the team attend
Tech Summit (mandatory trip for 9th graders in DE)
Science Day on the Hill (Washington D.C.)
Various Engineering functions... (for example the annual Del. Eng. Banquet)
Engineering Your Tomorrow (introducing girls to engineering)
YMCA summer camp
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This year, MOE helped start two FLL teams, with three or our more in the wings for next year. MOE students helped mentor the two teams... "Dr. MOE and the Dominators" and "MOE Knows". They even set-up and acted as judges at a local FLL tournament. With one of our adult engineers acting as eemce.
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Along with the 31 student members, our team has around ten engineers and the "MOE boosters" which is mainly parents and alumni of the team who help out with field construction and providing food for all of us hungry teenagers.
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MOE starts in the fall with MOE-University; where we go to classes which teach the basics of wireing, gearing, motors, correct tool usage, ect... From there we divide into sub-groups where we "specialize" into areas like mechanical, electrical, and animation. From that point we go into build period.

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MOE has been EXTREEEMLY lucky to have DuPont as our major sponsor. As part of their sponsorship, they provide a workspace and meeting area for us in one of their buildings downtown. It mainly consists of an area where we keep our workbenches and tools, a medium sized rugged are where we can run the robot, and a few cubicals for the animation and web-teams. We also have acess to a machine shop where myself and the other students cut, drill, and finish our parts under the "watchfull" [as in "take off your watch when in the machine shop"] eyes of George, a professional DuPont machinist who dedicates his time to working with us wacky highschoolers.
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Sorry, I guess I got a little carried away. I would keep wracking my brain but I don't want to make this much longer.

-Andrea aka. Ducky-

Partial List
 

Here are some of the 17 teams that will be competing

121-NYC
131-UTC
45-MMR
49--Buckeye
159--pacific northwest
192--Silicon Valley
325--Philidephia
435--VCU
311--SBLI
188--Canada
175--NJ

I have 7, don't know who the others are yet

Team 188 Will!
 

Team 188, Woburn Robotics, won the Regional Chairman's Award at the first ever Canadian Regional!!! As a result, we will be submitting our chairman's award at the Nationals.

If you would like to see our submission, please visit our website at http://www.team188.com/

Anthony X.

Re: Partial List
 

Better add 175 BUZZ to that list. They won it in New Jersey.

22 won in SoCal (and they deserved it too!!). Wonder what kind of chances they have of winning it at nationals again.