2009 IRI Final Results

Competition Off-Season Events
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2009 IRI Awards

Charity Donations
70+ Backpacks for Elementary School Students
~$4000 For IRI Charities (Hunger Inc Food Pantry and Bona Vista Rehabilitation Center)

Mentor of the Year / David Berggren, Team 1538
Volunteer of the Year / David Kelly, Team 234
FIRST Foundations Award / Steve Florence, Team 461
Marcia Beatty Memorial Scholarship / Not Awarded
Talent Show Winner and Scholarship / Erin Soutar, Team 292
Rolls-Royce Scholarship / Logan Ferrell, Team 1747
Allison Transmission Scholarship / Bradley Voracek, Team 399
AndyMark Scholarship / Luke Pike, Team 1501
Innovation First Scholarship / Brandon Pruniak, Team 1114
Diversified Systems Scholarship / Tyler Moser, Team 2753
IRI and IRI Teams Scholarship / Renee Becker, Team 1675

IRI TEAM SELECTED AWARDS
Best Scoring Robot / Chief Delphi, Team 47
Best Payload Specialist / Matt Deal, Team 234

JUDGED AWARDS
TechnoKats Spirit of Indiana / HBR, Team 1747
Most Awesome Drive System / Rat Pack, Team 830
Outstanding Quality / Team THRUST, Team 1501
Leadership IN Control / More Martians, Team 70
Imagery and Design / Holy Cows, Team 1538
Driving Tomorrow’s Technology / CyberCards, Team 1529
Team Spirit / Thunder Chickens, Team 217
Judges Award 1 / Global Agenda Gamers, Team 1771
Judges Award 2 / Eagle Robotics, Team 399

Mentor Tournament / Winner
Spartonics, Team 1503
Wildstang, Team 111
Liberty-DeWalt Robotics, Team 2775

Mentor Tournament / Runner Up
Chief Delphi, Team 47
Thunder Chickens, Team 217
Delphi ELITE, Team 48

Final Competition / Winner ***
Winnovation, Team 1625
Truck Town Thunder, Team 68
Las Guerrillas, Team 469
Bomb Squad, Team 16

Final Competition / Runner-Up
ThunderBots, Team 980
WildStang, Team 111
Penn Robotics, Team 135
Tigertrons, Team 222

*** Four winning teams receive an automatic bid and no entry fee for the 2010 IRI.
(however, there may be a small processing fee… :wink: )

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Congrats all! One of these years we’ll have to get our act together and make it up there…

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all i can say is i wish i could have seen it. due to work i was unable to watch (if the web cast was working) Any new on if it will be posted on TBA. i really hope it is.

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I guess its weird that the thing making me so happy right now is the fact that I know most of those teams/people personally, and have had the pleasure of working with them. Congrats to all and especially from me to Tyler Moser and 1771. You had one helluva weekend.

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Be careful all you winners! The bottoms of the trophies fall off! lol. they look really nice though (and they use rivets :yikes: ) Nice job AndyMark! and congrats to all the winners

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geesh, I can’t believe my team. They are an unstoppable machine yet generous. Sniff I’m so proud!

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I can’t believe your team either. You guys built in my opinion the best scoring machine in Lunacy; I was rooting for you guys the whole time because IMO you guys had an Einstein caliber robot and got upset in the Newton semis by an equally fine alliance. Figured you guys could take IRI :smiley:

I really wish I could have gotten letters in time for the IRI scholarship. Though seeing the winners come up as kind of a “who’s who” of FIRST seniors was really neat.

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it was indeed nice to see the seniors. its nice to recognize all the people who have come through the first program.

this has been the first year the cybercards have received an award at all. We recieved the judges award at the boilermaker regional. Then and at IRI, the announcing of our team number and name almost comes as a surprise. But it shows that when you work your butt off and put your heart into robotics and FIRST, it really does pay out. I am beyond excited for school to start, so I can show my principle what our team has accomplished.

My thanks goes out to all of the judges.

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You guys are incredibly helpful. You opened up your shop/field so we could practice as a tune-up for IRI, AND you guys helped us fix our robot when the bottom roller got horribly bent on saturday at IRI. Give your team an extra bucket-ful of thanks from 1675.

Congrats to all the winners!

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Winnovation did an awesome job! There was a match where all i got to do was run away from you guys… you totally ruined our game plan lol :eek: