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Re: So who do you think is the favorite to win this years Chairman's award?
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This is an impressive list. Makes me wonder how on earth the CA judges at Championship are going to choose just one team to join the HOF this year. To follow up on that thought: as FIRST adds regional events, the opportunities for regional medals and awards increase proportionally. And there's still just one Championship, so just one team per year gets into the HOF. Many exemplary teams may never make it in, because other exemplary teams are developing every year. I don't mean to slight any team by mentioning the only ones that I have directly observed recently; my choices for the 2006 Chairman's Award would be 45, 71, 111, and 1114. I'd find it very difficult to make a single choice, but if pressed I'd vote for 71. Reasons: (1) four championships -- I understand that FIRST isn't only about winning, but in 71's case the winning is evidence of an exceptionally strong overall program, and (2) FIRST's most productive alumni association -- just look around and see where former Hammond team members are now, what they've done for FIRST, the teams they've started. |
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Here is list of the 2006 winners with all info I could get, study your competitors! All these teams are great teams. Hope this info is useful
3/2-4 VCU Regional 384 J.R. Tucker High School, Richmond, VA USA http://www.sparky384.com/ BAE Regional 190 WPI & Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, Worcester, MA USA http://users.wpi.edu/~first/ New Jersey Regional 25 Bristol-Myers Squibb & North Brunswick Twp. High School, North Brunswick, NJ USA http://www.raiderrobotix.org/index.html Pacific Northwest Regional 492 Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium & The International School, Bellevue, WA USA http://www.titanrobotics.net/index2.cfm 3/9-11 Buckeye Regional 48 Delphi Corporation & Warren G. Harding High School , Warren, OH USA http://www.delphielite.com/ Finger Lakes Regional 340 Bausch & Lomb & Churchville-Chili High School, Churchville, NY USA http://www.usfirst.org/frc/map/index...minfo&team=340 Florida Regional 233 NASA @Kennedy Space Center & Cocoa Beach High School & Rockledge High School, Rockledge/Cocoa Beach,FL USA http://www.thepinkteam.org/ Great Lakes Regional 66 General Motors Powertrain Corp & Willow Run High School, Ypsilanti, MI USA http://team66.com/ Pittsburgh Regional 365 First State Robotics/DuPont Engineering/Anholt Technologies, Inc. & MOE Robotics Group, Wilmington, DE USA http://www.moe365.org/ St. Luis Regional 71 Beatty International/City of Hammond/PEPSI Americas & School City of Hammond, Hammond, IN USA http://www.hammond.k12.in.us/TeamHammond/ New England regional 236 Dominion Millstone Power Station & Lyme-Old Lyme High School, Old Lyme, CT USA http://www.region18.org/lolhs_files/first_robotics/ 3/16-18 Boilermaker Regional 45 Delphi/Ivy Tech Community College & Kokomo Center School Corporation, Kokomo, IN USA http://www.technokats.org/ Chesapeake Regional 612 Mitretek/SAIC/Northrup Grumman/IAI & Chantilly Academy, Chantilly, VA USA http://chantillyrobotics.com/ Detroit Regional 217 Ford Motor Company/FANUC Robotics Inc./B&K Corporation & Utica Community Schools, Sterling Heights, MI USA http://www.thunderchickens.org/ Midwest Regional 111 Motorola & Rolling Meadows High School & Wheeling High School, Schaumburg, IL USA http://www.wildstang.org/ Peachtree Regional 1002 Kimberly-Clark/Georgia Institute of Technology & Wheeler High School, Marietta, GA USA http://www.circuitrunners.com/site/ Silicon Valley Regional 192 Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA USA http://ianhenderson.org/grtsite/ 3-23/26 Boston Regional 383 Provincia de Sao Pedro HS, Porto Alegre,RS Brazil http://www.colegioprovincia.com.br/r..._robotica.aspx Davis Sacramento Regional 245 Siemens VDO Automotive /GM Finance Staff & Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills,MI USA http://adambots.gotdns.com/cgi-bin/view New York City Regional 375 Verizon/Con Edison & Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island,NY USA http://375.ivroots.com/ SBPLI Long Island Regional 514 G&L Precision Corp./Miller Place PTO/MP Robotics Boosters & Miller Place Schools, Miller Place, NY USA http://www.millerplacerobotics.com/ Southern California Regional 812 The University of California at San Diego/The UCSD Machine Perception Laboratory/General Motors/The Annenberg Foundation/Qualcomm/Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego/Northrop Grumman/The San Diego County Fair & The Preuss School at UCSD, San Diego,CA USA http://midnightmechanics.org/ Waterloo Regional 1114 General Motors - St. Catharines Powertrain & Governor Simcoe Secondary School, St. Catharines, ON Canada http://www.simbotics.org/ Wisconsin Regional 1108 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation/Holy Trinity Parish/Sutherland Family Limited Partnership & Paola High School, Paola,KS USA http://www.pantherrobotics.com/ 3-28 to 4-1 GM/Technion University Israel Regional 1657 Boeing & Mevoot Eron, Kibutz E'in Shemer, Northern Israel http://www.hamosadrobotics.net/index.aspx Colorado Regional 159 LSI Logic & Poudre High School, Fort Collins,CO USA http://www.alpinerobotics.com/ Greater Toronto Regional 522 New York Container Terminal/SI Bank & Trust Foundation/Con Edison/Richmond County Savings Foundation/Northfield Savings Bank & Mckee Vocational High School, Staten Island, NY USA http://mckeehs.org/robotics/index.htm Las Vegas Regional 79 Honeywell Inc & East Lake High School, Clearwater,FL USA http://www.krunch79.com/ Lone Star Regional 922 AEP/Houston Robotics /SONY Corporation & United Engineering & Technology Magnet, Laredo,TX USA http://www.uisd.net/robotics/ Palmetto Regional 1398 W. J. Keenan High School, Columbia,SC USA http://student.project-real.org/ Philadelphia Regional 357 PECO Exelon/ITT Technical Institute & Upper Darby High School, Drexel Hill,PA USA http://www.team357.org/ West Michigan Regional 503 Intier Automotive & Novi High School, Novi,MI USA http://www.intiernovi503.com/ |
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Wheeler 1002. They've been in first 4 years and have 3 regional chairman's awards. I think I'm gonna go with M.O.E. though. They are an awesome team with an awesome history within FIRST.
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Re: So who do you think is the favorite to win this years Chairman's award?
I agree with those who said that it has to be one of the repeat regional winners.... =\ Not only is it more justifiable to give the award to one of these teams who has consistantly shown their stuff, but it allows another team to step up to the plate at a regional.
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Imagine Redateam has won the Magnolia Regional Chairman's Award for the past four seasons. Their program is a good one, one that registers a 9.1418 on Billfred's Change-The-Culture-O-Meter, which is known to be the best measurement of how worthy a team is to win the Chairman's Award. Now imagine Bluateam, which recently won their first Chairman's Award ever at the Pinetree Regional. Their program registers a 9.7525 on the Change-The-Culture-O-Meter. Assuming the judges can tell the difference without a Change-The-Culture-O-Meter (development was kinda sidelined by build season), who should have the Peter Gabriel played for them a second time this season? Speaking of Peter Gabriel's "Big Time," I do hope they play it for the Chairman's winner in Atlanta. I mean, after hearing it in person or over the webcast for four weeks of regionals, not playing it just wouldn't feel right. ;) |
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Nice job on the list of Regional CA winners websites. I would like to see a copy of their CA submissions too. Last year on CD, there was a request for the 2005 CA winners to post their CA submissions for viewing. I was great to read them. It would be nice if the 2006 CA winners do the same this year. |
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My top three are:
1) 45 - Same reasons as Ed 2) 79 - They RCA's every year since 2003 and when they were awarded at Las Vegas the judges said 'This team has accomplished the goals set fourth by Dean every year' 3) 812 - Won the SoCal RCA last year. When I saw them awarded at the SoCal Regional the judges said 'This team gets FIRST...'. |
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Your Team Number: 842 Team Name, Corporate / University Sponsors: Arthur M. Blank Foundation/Honeywell/Intel/Phelps-Dodge/Wells-Fargo & Carl Hayden High School Briefly describe the impact of the FIRST program on team participants. In a school that was noted for a high dropout rate, over the last 3 years our FIRST graduates are not only the first in their family to graduate from high school, but 100% have gone on to the military or college, most with scholarships. After experiencing the “hard fun” challenges of FIRST, participants want to prepare themselves for a challenging, important career and yet still find time to inspire younger students. Examples of role model characteristics for other teams to emulate. We don’t do just robots. We are involved with the Arizona and U.S. legislature. We mentor 10 FLL teams and we host the 50 team State FLL Competition on our campus. Our year round engineering activities include building full size electric race cars, ham radio, alt. fuel go-karts, and an underwater ROV. Realizing the value in VEX, we were the first AZ team to form four all-girl teams on our campus, and to inspire junior high and junior colleges to participate with us. Describe the impact of the FIRST program on your team and community. 50 individuals on the robotics team have come together and bonded to form a single unit, which is the pride of our community. A community once known for gangs is now known for its robotics teams. Educators and policy makers from around the country come to our campus to see the positive affects of the Falcon Robotics. The Arizona IEEE wants to form the first Arizona high school chapter at Carl Hayden. Teams innovative methods to spread the FIRST message. We made over 45 presentations this year to students and teachers from 2nd graders to universities, as well as to parents, legislatures, and professional groups. Our publicity campaign netted over 25 articles (English and Spanish) in local, national, and international publication, and 18 media broadcasts, including ABC News Nightline. Warner Bros. is making a movie and we are in the Congressional Record. Describe the strength of your partnership. Our 15 year partnership with Phelps Dodge has expanded to include Intel, Honeywell, Wells Fargo, and smaller businesses in our neighborhood. Employees from these companies as well as Microchip, and Inventivity donate talent and funds to Hayden. In turn support Arizona teams as far south as Sierra Vista to the northern Navajo Reservation. We are also mentoring other rookie teams from South Carolina and Georgia as well as continuing our relationship with Team1401 from Mexico City. Teams communication methods and results. We reach a broad audience by hosting a bilingual website, speaking to diverse groups of people—mentoring young students, briefing state legislators and influencing legislation—and communicating through national media: TV, magazines, NPR radio, and countless Internet articles. We correspond with sponsors via conference calls, email, and site visits where several team members lead the dialogue. These communication efforts resulted in global recognition of our team hence the recognition of FIRST. Other matters of interest to the FIRST judges, if any. The Falcon Robotics primary goal is to positively affect our culture. More of our students are going into engineering and other technical careers, state and national leaders are calling us a model program, but it was not until Wired magazine, ABC News Nightline, Hollywood, and MTV reported our impact on our students and community that we realized how much influence our students have on the culture. Carl Hayden High School Falcon Robotics team 842 Annalisa, the president of the Falcon Robotics club, finishes her part of the presentation declaring that for the last three years, all of the club seniors have gone on to college or the military. Governor Napolitano asks her if she always wanted to go into engineering. Annalisa replies, “I never planned on going to college until I became a “FIRSTer”, but now I will be going to ASU polytechnic campus to major in technology and business. With all the responsibilities and experiences I’ve handled, I know I want to do this for a living.” Presenting in front of the governor and her education council, which includes the presidents of the three universities and school superintendents from around the state, was only one of the 45 presentations members of the team made in the last 12 months. The FIRST message has been heard not only by hundreds of policy makers, but by local second and third graders. Marco, a sophomore, and Rebecca, a junior, will never forget their two hour participation with the toughest crowd ever: the second graders at Lela Alston. The robotics team brought the FIRST robot, as well as a Lego robot, a VEX robot and several of the promotional videos. Several demos, hundreds of questions and two hundred hugs later, Marco knew what it felt like to be a hero. The boys all wanted to be an inventor like Marco; the girls wanted to be a robot builder like Rebecca. The year 2005 was a banner year for Falcon Robotics. April’s Wired magazine featuring, the team’s ROV (Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle) brought national attention to the club. ABC News Nightline accompanied team 842 to the 2005 national FIRST championship where Carl Hayden H. S. was presented the Engineering Inspiration award. The half hour national program was aired in May. The story appeared on the front page of the Arizona Republic and as far away as The Press in Christchurch, New Zealand. The students have been interviewed three times on National Public Radio and by the BBC in Ecuador, in Spanish. The largest teacher organization in the U.S. printed an article about robotics, technology, and education written by our teachers, Allan Cameron and Fredi Lajvardi. How does a team reach such a large audience? While it may appear like a lucky break, it is a result of believing that people really do appreciate those who work with science and technology and we are willing to appear anywhere, anytime. We have also learned the power of writing the press release. One such press release finally reached Josh Davis, a writer for Wired magazine. He contacted us and asked, “Are you people for real?” He attended the AZ kickoff, AZ regional and went with us to Nationals. He has become a great friend and advocate of the FIRST message. He has become part of the network of professionals who we have met over the years who created the Falcon “lucky breaks.” Cristian is working on the 2006 ROV while he is chatting with U.S. Congressman, Ed Pastor. Representative Pastor is so impressed with the kids technical work and impact on the community, that he spoke about the Falcon Robotics team and Dean Kamen’s dream on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Team 842 is now in the Congressional Record, a part of U.S. history. Ed Pastor has asked for copies of our DVD and publications to lobby other federal legislators to provide resources and incentives to bring programs like FIST to every school. State Representative David Lujan is visibly excited while talking with Luis and Pablo. He’s been trying to find a way to improve math and science education in Arizona. The team has been telling him it’s more of an attitude problem rather than a curriculum issue. Representative Lujan is impressed and after discussing the teams proposed Arizona Extracurricular Academic Association (AEAA) that promotes math and science activities after school and on the weekends, he writes draft legislation to promote and fund FIRST, FLL and other math and science activates for Arizona schools. Governor Napolitano, who has a third meeting with the Falcons, includes a $1,000,000 in her budget proposal to encourage FIRST-like activities. Gerica graduated in May and is now sitting in Boston during a freezing snowstorm. Like many of the Hayden students, she is the first in her family to graduate from high school and like all the robotics team members, she decided college was essential, but it would require a scholarship to finance her dreams. While in Atlanta for the FIRST National, the team visited the Arthur M. Blank foundation’s headquarters and presented the team’s message. Mr. Blank is the cofounder of Home Depot. The staff and officers were impressed with the “gracious professionalism” of the students and their involvement in the student’s community. While visiting the “trophy room”, Gerica mentioned that Arthur Blank’s college picture had the Babson College logo in it. When they asked if she was going to the prestigious business college, she replied that although she had been admitted, the tuition was way out of the question and scholarship applications deadlines had passed. Two months later, Gerica was awarded a “full ride” scholarship. The “hard fun” of the robotics team has prepared Gerica for the “hard fun” of Babson. The warmth of the Blank Foundation offsets the frigid Boston winter. Scholarships are important for our community. Per capita income in our neighborhood is $9,000, yet because of our FIRST activities, many of our students are seeking and receiving scholarships. The team has inspired ASU to create the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Science, Math, and Engineering Competition Award for a student who has “fully participated in a regional or national science, math, or engineering competition”. It specifically mentions FIRST and the MATE ROV competitions as examples. A Falcon graduate received the first one. A group of businessmen, impressed with the aspirations of the robotics students, has created the Maecenas Fund which will provide over $200,000 in scholarships for Hayden students. Four robotics students were awarded four year tuition, room and board scholarships. More importantly, they will be mentored by some very wise patrons. A wonderful lady, Alex, contacted our club and has “adopted” one of our graduated FIRST members, Emma. Emma has transferred from the local community college to the university because Alex is paying her tuition, dorm room and food allowance. Emma will probably visit Alex in China this summer! Victor is a freshman with experience. At Issac Middle school, he was a member of the FLL team that was coached by Hayden students. In turn, this year Victor was a mentor to his alma mater. In 2005 the Falcon Robotics team mentored 10 FLL teams. The neighborhood around Carl Hayden is becoming the “robot hood”. After the few glitches in the sound system were solved, Victor tried to count the number of people in the stands. Maybe 500? The third annual AZ regional FIRST Lego League competition was about to get underway. Forty schools from around the state filled the three gymnasiums at Hayden. The Falcons with ham radio licenses were in charge of communications and the kids who built the ROV’s underwater camera system wired 10 classrooms with audio and video so parents could remotely watch their Lego students’ presentations. Victor was proud of his school. Angelica is spending another Saturday at school. Everything seems to take longer than she thought it would. The VEX playing field took longer than expected. None of the girls had ever used power tools before. Angelica was good in math and science and now she discovers she also likes working with her hands and figuring out how make things work. Angelica, a junior, is now very interested in studying engineering. The all-girls Vex team was formed specifically to give the girls an opportunity to gain hands on experience. The Falcons had been concerned that girls on the robotics team seemed to shy away from the construction and fabrication activities, so when the VEX kits became available, the team bought four kits and formed the Carl Hayden VEXens. Even though there is no VEX regional competition, the VEXens will scrimmage with a team at Phoenix Community College and perform demo matches at the Arizona regional. The numbers for 2005-2006: Google Hits for “Carl Hayden” & “Falcon Robotics”: 5,850 Percentage of Falcon graduates entering college or military: 100% Active weeks per year: 52 Number of teams at AZ FLL: 50 Presentations given: 45 Print Publications: 25 Radio and TV broadcasts: 18 FLL teams mentored: 10 Adult Mentors (non teachers): 7 Countries reporting on team 842: 6 New 4-year Scholarships created this year for Robotics team: 6 FIRST high schools mentored: 5 Hayden teachers who spend FIRST weekends: 5 Visits to Governor’s office: 3 Colleges and Universities mentored: 2 Legislation drafted: 1 Then there was all the traveling for competitions, presentations, and awards: FIRST Nationals, Atlanta, GA MATE ROV National, Houston, TX NextFest, Chicago, IL National Council of La Raza, Philadelphia, PA Teacher of the Year Awards, ETS & College Board, Princeton, NJ IEEE National Pre College Teachers of the Year, Orlando, FL John Wells Productions & Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA Annalisa stares at the empty table where our robot, Karen, was built. The day after shipping is always a quiet day. Partly due to the lack of sleep and stress, but also because it’s a time for reflection. What a year! Meetings with the governor, lawmakers, industry leaders, university presidents; trips across the country; speaking in front of large crowds; winning and losing; long nights and longer days; mountains of paperwork; endless deadlines; creating new teams… Cameron barges in, “We just got a phone call from MTV. They want to do a documentary!” She wonders if college will be this exciting. |
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I don't know how to get the other CA winners, but the one above is ours. Maybe other teams will post theirs too?
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Heres the CA Submission of Team 612
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1816 I"m really not sure if history really matters as far as determining the winner of CA at championship, but i think the competition is going to be tough. This is the FIRST year team 612 is on the scene. May be thats why most of the people really don't know about us and our efforts. Hopefully our CA Submission will help you understand our team and the efforts we put together to spread the word of FIRST to the community; and mainly to create an IMPACT and CHANGE the future. Following are some of the latest accomplishments of team 612 http://www.nasm.edu/events/spotlight_may.cfm A press release from Smithsonian National Air and Space Science Museum. also http://wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46169 Heres another way we IMPACT our community, and make a difference. Good luck to all the teams Imad |
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217 503 111 365 66 M.O.E is the most likely canidate because they knocked off 341 at whatever regional they won at. I have a theory that Wildstang might have the same year as H.O.T. They won two regionals and a Chairmans this year. 217 and 503 are my sentimental picks because they are two of my favorite Michigan teams, and have excellent programs. The Flyers are my darkhorse team. They have influenced many Michigan teams and have a number less that 254 which makes them a possibility. |
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