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Team recalls their rookie year

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Student members of FSR’s amazing rookie FTC team, Rhyme Know Reason, looked back on the year— their challenges, opportunities, and accomplishments— and set goals for the coming season–Rhyme Know Reason 2014

This past season (2014-2015) was our team’s rookie year. When we started out on our adventure we had no idea what to expect. We had no name, no history, no parts, and we didn’t even know if we could build a working robot. Thankfully, with the help of many gracious individuals, organizations and teams we made it through the year with a cool name, a reputation as an enthusiastic rhyming team, plenty of supplies, and a working robot! 

 

We started the season by attending workshops and events that were great opportunities for a new team. One of these was a brainstorming session hosted by MOE and Dr. Cheek. After months of designing and building our robot we attended two qualification competitions in Pennsylvania. We were honored to win the Motivate Award and the Think Award. 

 

After a lot of testing we decided that our first robot design was not working effectively. We ended up changing a major component of our robot the week before our first state– level competition. Although it was a good change our robot struggled at Delaware States due to a major mechanical issue. We ended up winning the Think Award again at this competition. Two of our members, Emma and Amy, were also chosen as finalists for the Dean’s List Award at DE states.

 

We finished our competition season by competing at Pennsylvania States. We won the Connect Award which was one placement away from qualifying us to Super Regionals. 

However, our season was still not done. We helped FSR host the premier event of Dean Kamen’s documentary “Slingshot”. It was a big success and we raised a lot of money for the teams that are a part of FSR.

 

We’ll be working all summer to spread STEM throughout our community and to prepare for another great season.

 

 

To see the team at work offering robot demonstrations during Robotics Day event, click here   To learn more about the team, visit their website….here.

FTC teams move ahead to Championship events

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Congratulations to FSR’s two FTC teams! So far, both have done very well this season.

Our rookie team, Rhyme Know Reason, has earned two robotics awards over the past two weeks. On November 22, in Oxford, PA, they earned the Motivate Award. Last Saturday November 29, in Ambler, PA, they earned the Think Award for their excellent engineering notebook. With this award they earned the opportunity to compete at the PA State FTC Championship in late February. In addition, they will also be competing at the Diamond State Championship in Dover, DE, next January 31.

Their team, with lead mentor Dawn Dockter and several other mentors, has built a strong foundation of teamwork and engineering exploration.

Also at the Oxford event, our veteran FTC team, MOE 365, was Alliance captain for the winning alliance and they were awarded the Connect Award.

At the Ambler event,  MOE earned the Inspire Award, (top award) and was on the winning alliance of teams (with a team from Delaware’s Archmere Academy) in on-field competition. They have also earned a championship berth in Pennsylvania and in Delaware.

We wish them all the best as they move forward to FTC’s 2014 championship events.

FTC events are free and open to the public. For information about locations and times, click the links above.

You can read about the FTC game– Cascade Effect– and preview the video here.