Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

1671 had a blast.

The robot was 100% student designed and built. They all came together and made an amazing bot, finishing the highest in their team's history.

In the end it is what the students learn that really matters. I wish that every student in FIRST could have the same experience that ours did.

Congrats to the winners, 1678 and 1868 were right next door to our pit, and they are a great bunch of kids, very polite. :)

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

I wasn't there at the regional, but did anyone check out the FTC Driving Challenge in the pavilion? FTC Team 2848 Techno Guards help organize and design the event and they have some pictures of it. One member from FRC 2489 were there too. I did watch the webcast though.

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Team 3189 Circuit Breakers

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Congrats to 1678, 1868, and 766 on the win.

1868 Space Cookies this is the first of many blue banners for the lab. Tell the Poofs to start making some space.

And 1678 we got our eye on you guys. Your bot is impressive. :yikes:

FRC971

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Thanks so much to everyone for the congratulations. We had an amazing competition and only wish we had been performing at our highest to help our alliance members on Friday.

1678, thank you so much for picking us. Your sheer creativity and engineering prowess was incredible to watch while you worked on that minibot deployment.

766 you were determined, reliable, friendly and optimistic. We spent the whole time during alliance selection hoping you wouldn't be picked before it got back up to us. Thankfully you were available and at the top of both our and 1678's lists, and it was amazing to work with you.

Where we're going to put the banner is a bit of a problem.... Anyone who's been to our lab knows that 254's 20 some-odd banners take up most of the available space. I'm sure we'll find somewhere, though.

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Thank you!

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

I believe he was a member of team 3189.

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Wow, thank you for the kind words. Thank you so much 1678 and 1868 for picking us. We had a blast working with you all.

Honestly, we thought we were not going to be picked. We had a very long Thursday full of problems that really shook our confidence.

To fill in on what happen, the third stage of our elevator binded to the second stage and popped out partially. Our bearing blocks were damaged a bit and the second stage of the elevator was twisted. We really thought we were crippled for the rest of the competition. We had to rebuild the second stage and repair the third stage. It took us a while to find the root causes for the failure and implement corrective measures. By the time, we got the elevator running, we missed all our practice matches and were extremely drained from the near miss of having no elevator to score with.

During the panic, we accidentally pulled out to robot functionally light, and damaged the Digital Sidecar. A big thank you to our inspector Bert, who made sure we go through most of the inspection before we replaced the sidecar. Also a big thank you to team 100 and Inspector Edwin for tracing to cause of the problem to the sidecar and proving the light was okay.

After a lot of rewiring, we discovered, that we had a pneumatic leak from debris getting on the gaskets of our solenoids. A big thank you to mentor Joseph (team 2073? I lost track which team(s) you mentor) for helping trace the leak and lending a hand through out the competition.

We finally got inspected Friday morning before our first match. Things were working well, but we never got the minibot system to work. The rest of the weekend, we defiantly suffered from low confidence. I think we all watched too much Inception. We feared it all was a dream, or a dream in a dream and when we woke up, our elevator would still be broken.

We were overjoyed to be picked. Witnessing 1678 and 1868 working together to run 1868's minbot on 1678 was amazing. We could see the confidence and determination in everyone's eyes on both teams. We could not help but get caught up in it. You all gave our confidence back. We wanted to support the alliance in anyway possible. We did not want to let these amazing teams down. It was honor to witness these two teams work together, it was an even greater honor to be part of such a great alliance. Thank you so much for picking us.

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Yes, Joseph is from 2073. He is one of my former students from 1147. He now helps us out on 2073 and has become a fantastic resource. His enthusiasm for FIRST is wonderful to watch. He loves helping out wherever there is a need. That's why he now helps support three teams from the local area. I will pass your thanks along to him tomorrow.

Re: 2011 Sacramento Regional
 

Sorry about taking so long to reply I had to go from helping at the regional to help with my sisters wedding. It was awesome getting to help your team out and I was very impressed with your rebuild(s) and how far you guys went. If we had to lose the final round it couldn't of been to a better alliance or group of people. It was fun working with you and look forward to our next encounter.

-Joseph
P.S. My signature has all the teams i mentor in case you're still wondering
P.P.S. thanks for the kind words bill i do appreciate them