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Delaware teams to attend international robotics competition

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2014 FIRST Robotics Challenge World Championship

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

Best of luck to all our students and teams– and have fun!

Photo from usfirst.org by Adriana M. Grossman

FIRST Tech Challenge Summer Camp

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FTC robot. Photo by A. Grossman

Calling all students in Grades 7-12!

This summer there will be three one-week camps where you can have fun learning to build and program Tetrix and Mindstorm robots.

You’ll also apply real-world math, science and engineering concepts while working in teams to learn about problem-solving, organization, and collaboration. 

To learn more– Contact Teshenia Hughes at 302.857.6824  

Click here to Register for the Camp

Dates– July 13-17; July 20-24; July 27-31

Times– 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Camp location– DSU’s Kirkwood Highway location, Wilmington

Cost– $150/ week

 

Diamond State FTC Championship Firsts

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FIRST Tech Challenge

Last Saturday January 31, at Delaware State University, two Wilmington robotics teams affiliated with First State Robotics achieved important “firsts.” The Miracles of Engineering (MOE) FTC team became the first Delaware team to ever advance from the annual Diamond State Championship to the Northeast super-regional tournament in Scranton (March 19-21). As part of the FIRST® Tech Challenge (FTC), the 11-student team earned second place for the Inspire Award, the highest award given at an FTC competition, and was also first partner on the winning alliance in the field competition. This is MOEs second year to compete against other high ranking teams at the Northeast super-regional tournament.

Amy and Emma with FIRST president, Don Bossi (left) and DE FTC director, Eric Cheek (right)

Amy and Emma with FIRST president, Don Bossi (left) and DE FTC director, Eric Cheek (right)

In another “first”, Amy Andrews and Emma Onstad, two members of the team Rhyme Know Reason , became the first FTC students in Delaware to become finalists for the Dean’s List. This award is part of an effort by US FIRST® and the family of Dean Kamen (inventor and founder of FIRST®) to recognize young leaders in FTC throughout the world. The girls will compete with finalists from other events to become one of the top ten international Dean’s List winners. Their team, Rhyme Know Reason (with four students), earned the Think Award at DSU, the second highest judged award at the competition.

Both teams will demonstrate their robotics skills for the public at DE STEM Expo on Saturday, March 7 at Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington. First State Robotics will host a STEM Expo and screening of the documentary movie “SlingShot. ” This event is sponsored in part by the Kenny Family Foundation.

For more info on STEM Expo and film screening, see http://moe365.org/slingshot.php or https://www.facebook.com/#!/delawareslingshot

Congratulations to all Diamond State Championship FTC award winners!

Click here for more award winners