[FTC]: Florida FTC Championship Results

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The FACE OFF! playing fields saw a lot of action in the Sunshine State. Forty-nine teams participated in three state qualifying competitions, a scrimmage and a workshop. Twenty-five teams from these events earned invitations to attend the state championship by winning an award or by hosting the event.

Here are the results of the FTC Florida State Championship:

Motivate Award - 3109, George’s Left Ear (University of South Florida Polytechnic [Sponsor], Lakeland, FL)
Connect Award - 109, Domino Effect (Youth Engineering Society of Pinellas, St. Petersburg, FL)
Innovate Award - 348, Lightning (Michael Krop High School, Aventura, FL)
PTC Design Award - 3123, Spontaneous Combustion (Seminole High School, Largo, FL)
Think Award - 506, Pandara (Palm Harbor University High School, Palm Harbor, FL)
Inspire - 1902, Exploding Bacon (Exploding Bacon 4-H Robotics [Orange County 4-H], Orlando, FL)

Winning Alliance:
Captain - 2425, Hydra (Hillsborough High School, Tampa, FL)
Partner 2 - 348, Lightning (Michael Krop High School, Aventura, FL)
Partner 3 - 2800, Rogue Robotics of Brevard 4-H (Brevard County 4-H, Palm Bay, FL)

Finalist Alliance:
Captain - 617, Ro Ro Ro Ur Bot (Northside Christian School, Largo, FL)
Partner 2 - 3123, Spontaneous Combustion (Seminole High School, Largo, FL)
Partner 3 - 2845, Duct Tape (Learning is For Everyone, Odessa, FL)

Event Sponsors:
University of South Florida, College of Engineering
Raytheon - Network Centric Systems
FRC Team 1902, Exploding Bacon

We can’t wait to see what FIRST has in-store for us next season!

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I have to give major kudos to Michael Coleman for running such a smooth regional (we even finished 3 minutes early)

For some great pictures of the event go to www.explodingbacon.com a look at the photos page.

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I always wish I had more time to be able to help in the planning of this event because Mike always puts on such an amazing event. I’m honored to get to help him out with it because I am always astounded by how much of a high quality event he puts together, especially for FTC.

Also, a huge thanks to Raytheon, I know the past 2 years they have worked closely with Mike and in addition getting engineers to volunteer as judges and help man key volunteer positions they have also done a simply phenomenal job with their video crews. The only time I’ve seen FIRST events use a jib camera is during kickoff, and here we had 3 of them for the “Junior” version of FRC. It’s quite awesome to see. I got a kick out of hearing some people that watched the webcast all excited by the near-hd quality of the streams coming in at 1150kbps(!)

Another excellent event Mike, take a break and enjoy it because you have definitely earned it once again.