It was a great regional! Had to go to three matches in the final! 610, 1212 thank you very, very much! Now on to the championships!
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The Falcon Robotics Team of Carl Hayden High School with their robot Angelica's DREAM, named after the Valedictorian ASU Mechanical Engineering student Angelica Hernandez who has recently been accepted to Stanford University with a fellowship, won the FIRST Robotics Arizona Regional! The event was held at Hamilton HS in Chandler this past weekend.
The team had 10 wins 1 loss in the qualifying rounds and was ranked number 2 behind Team 610 the Coyotes from Toronto, Canada who was 11 and 0.
During Alliance selection team 610 selected us, and through our scouting data we determined that team 1212 from Seton Catholic School of Chandler would make a great alliance.
So off we went into the finals. Quarter final match scores were 36 to 12 and 37 to 15 with our alliance moving on to the semifinals. Semifinal scores were 69 to 22 and 54 to 32 and that advanced us to the finals. There appeared to be a field management system failure that caused our robot to crash into the opposing alliance ramp and we remained there for the remainder of the match.( we don't know this for sure) As a result of this significant and potentially disastrous mishap, we incurred a huge amount of penalties and thus we lost the match. The Falcon pit team quickly inspected the robot for damage and found little. They patched Angelica back up and she was ready to go. In the two subsequent matches we scored 67 to 50 and 61 to 44 and were victorious! We helped team 610 to win their first Regional Championship in ten years and team 1212 their first Regional victory ever! The International championship competition will take place from April 25th to the 28th in St, Loius, MO.
We have pics from the event, and if anyone else has pics please send them and we will add them to the album.
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But that's not all. The Falcons also won the Industrial Safety Award from Underwriters Laboratories for having the best run pit and the Innovation in Control Award by Motorola.... and wait! John Rangel won the Dean's List award and is now in contention for the national award.
All in all it was a great Regional competition for Falcon Robotics! All of this success would not have happened if not for the help of the many mentors and sponsors, and I would like to take a minute to thank them here:
Marzee Water Jet
IMS Metal
Southwest Fasteners
Arizona Community Foundation
Boeing
JC Penney
!nventivity
Intel
Gates Belts
Sims Metal Management
Fast Signs
SEAD Architecture
Microchip
Critical Mass Communications
Sling Rings
Immedia EDU
Team 39
Karen Suhm
Jerry Little
Marcos Acosta
Carmen Cornejo
Greg Harrison
Steve Forbes
Paul Price
Srnka Johnson
Jim Haugen
Ken Whitley
Beth Ellickson
Eira Rodriguez
Frank Neuperger
Borna Emmami