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Local high school robotics teams compete at FIRST World Championship

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RKR at work
Rhyme Know Reason
MOE FRC at work
MOE FRC ready to go!
MOE FRC stategy planning
January 9, Oxford, PA FTC Tournament

Two FSR teams will participate in a global robotics competition this week. The students of FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) team Rhyme Know Reason and FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) team MOE are headed to St. Louis for the FIRST  World Championship April 27- 30.

FIRST Tech Challenge teams build robots on a base no larger than 18 inches square and compete on a 12-foot by 12-foot field. FIRST Robotics Competition teams build larger robots that can weigh up to 120 pounds and compete on a 27-foot by 54-foot field. Alliances of teams compete against each other during 2 1/2-minute matches during both contests.

This year’s FTC game is modeled on a mountain rescue scenario. Points are scored when two-robot alliances“reset” Rescue beacons; deliver Rescue Climbers to a “shelter;” park on the “mountain;” and park in the Rescue beacon “repair zone” or floor goal.

The FRC game is also new each year and this year’s has a medieval theme- in only six weeks, teams must design and build a robot and a game strategy able to cross “rough terrain;” open “drawbridges;” score points by shooting “boulders;” and climb a “tower.”

Qualifying matches begin on Wed. 4/27 at 2pm. For anyone interested in watching the action LIVE online, here’s a link:

http://www.firstchampionship.org/watch-live

RKR will be in the FRANKLIN division of the competition. MOE will be in the GALILEO division.

Rhyme Know Reason headed to FTC World Championship

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Rhyme Know Reason 2016
Rescue bot Team RKR 2016

FSR team, Rhyme Know Reason, won 7 of 9 matches at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) East Superregional in Scranton. Their 5th place finish in their division ranked them high enough out of all 72 teams to receive an invitation to compete at the FIRST World Championship  this April 27- May 1 in St. Louis. In addition, student member Emma Onstad  will vie  for a prestigious Dean’s List award.

To earn money for travel, they are selling raffle tickets through the Horsey Family Youth Foundation for a chance to win a 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS/396. For tickets, contact Rhyme Know Reason FTC 8528 program director- David Onstad- at rhymeknowreason@gmail.com.

 

Good luck to them at the World Championship!

DE FLL Champs invited to Legoland Invitational

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FIRST LEGO League Team 6361, the Technobots, were named state champions on Saturday, February 20, at the DE FLL Championship event held at DSU in Dover. The team has an opportunity to advance to the LEGOLAND Invitational in California. More than 30 teams from DE, PA, and NJ competed for the title– in timed runs on a challenge-filled field and in three major judged categories:

  • Robot design, including strategy and programming;
  • Project solution, identifying, researching and addressing a real-world problem related to waste and waste management, and sharing it with the community;
  • Core values, that include teamwork and gracious professionalism.

Scenes from the full-day event.

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