2014 FIRST Robotics Challenge World Championship

Two FSR teams– MOE FRC and MOE FTC– travel to St. Louis this week to participate in FIRST World Championship competition events. MOE FRC is scheduled to compete in qualifying rounds on the Galileo field. MOE FTC is scheduled for qualifying rounds on the Edison field.

In addition, two Delaware students, Amy Andrews and Emma Onstad, both from FTC team 8528 are competing for FTC Dean’s list award. The 10 award winners (chosen from 101 finalists) will be announced at the FIRST Championship Opening Ceremony, Thursday, April 23 at 6 P.M. in the America’s Center, Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. 

NASA will be live streaming portions of the Championship event. A link to the NASA streaming page will be available here: http://championship.usfirst.org/first-championship/watch-it-live

Follow both teams on Twitter @FIRSTMOE365 AND @MOE365FTC

• FRC qualification rounds begin Thursday 8:30 am and final rounds end with an awards ceremony Saturday 5 pm at the Edward Jones Dome. For FRC schedules and live webcast info, click here  http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/championship-event

• FTC qualification rounds begin 2:30 pm Wednesday at St. Louis Union Station. Final rounds and award ceremony are scheduled for Saturday from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. For FTC schedule info click here http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/FTCWorldChampionship

Photo from usfirst.org by Adriana M. Grossman