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StudentandAchiever.org -- The premier online source for Michigan high school achievement news 2011 Michigan FIRST robotics Wayne State University, Grand Valley State University
Monday, April 11, 2011: StudentandAchiever.org -- The premier online source for Michigan high school achievement news -- FIRST state champs
Alliance of Goodrich, Huron Valley, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep win 2011 Michigan robotics crown
After three days of grueling competition, the second-seeded Blue Alliance of Team 33, the Killer Bees from Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, Team 67, the HOT Team from Huron Valley Schools, and Team 70, the More Martians from Goodrich, won the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition Michigan Championship on Saturday, April 9, at Eastern Michigan Universitys Convocation Center.
FIRST robotics season kicks off
Alliance from Notre Dame Prep, Oxford, and OSTC Northeast earns title
The 2011 FIRST Robotics season kicked off Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, as 40 high school teams from around Michigan competed in front of a packed and enthusiastic crowd at the Kettering University district competition in Flint.
The alliance of Team 33 from Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, Team 2317 from Oxford, and Team 1 from Oakland Schools Technical Campus Northeast was victorious in the competition.
They beat the alliance of Team 1243 from Swartz Creek, Team 494 from Goodrich, and Team 1684 from Lapeer East and Lapeer West in the championship match.
The alliances of Team 302 from Lake Orion, Team 2337 from Grand Blanc, Team 3535 from Lapper County Ed-Tech, and Team 2604 from Capac, Team 51 from Pontiac, and Team 703 from Saginaw Career Complex reached the semifinals.
During match play, Notre Dame Prep (Team 33) was stellar with 11 wins and only one loss to earn the top seed in the elimination round. Oxford, Team 2137, finished match play at 9-3.
In its 20th year of operation, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a national youth effort to inspire careers in engineering, science and technology.
The event is a head-to-head competition between large radio-controlled robots built by teams of high school students, with teachers and engineers as mentors.
Its fitting that the 20th anniversary of FIRST uses the imagery that helped this important organization get started the triangle, circle and square, said Bob Nichols, Ketterings Director of External Affairs and the founder of the Kettering Kickoff FIRST Robotics competition. FIRST has gone from one event to 60 and 28 teams to 2,000 in its two decades. Gracious professionalism and having fun are still the centerpieces of our FIRST organization.
This years game is called Logo Motion and is played by two competing alliances on a flat 27-by-54-foot. Each alliance consists of three robots.
The goal for each competing robot is to hang as many inflated plastic shapes of the FIRST logo, triangles, circles and squares, on grids during a two-minute and 15 second match. The match begins with one 15-second autonomous period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs and must hang Ubertubes to score extra points.
FIRST is very much like a NASCAR event, Nichols said. Students work in their pits between competitive matches just like NASCAR, constantly trying to improve the performance of the robot. Students quickly become great problem solvers. They are forced to be creative and quick, and thats part of the fun.
Other judged awards from the Kettering District:
District Chairman's Award: Team 2604, Capac
Engineering Inspiration Award: Team 2834, Bloomfield Hills Andover and Lahser
Rookie All-Star Award: Team 3536, Hartland
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award: Team 302, Lake Orion
Delphi Engineering Excellence Award: Team 51, Pontiac
General Motors Industrial Design Award: Team 2137, Oxford
Motorola Quality Award: Team 33, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep
Xerox Creativity Award: Team 326, Romulus
Entrepreneurship Award: Team 27, Clarkston CSMTech Academy
Imagery Award: Team 494, Goodrich
Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award: Team 2604, Goodrich
Judge's Award: Team 3398, Detroit Martin Luther King
Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism: Team 1322, Fenton
Chrysler Team Spirit Award: Team 1506, Oakland and Genesee County High Schools
Highest Rookie Seed Award: Team 3536, Hartland
Rookie Inspiration Award: Team 3450, Flint Classical Academy
Website Award: Team 2834, Bloomfield Hills Andover and Lahser
Ketterings district is one of nine in Michigan, with a state championship in Ypsilanti April 7-9. The national championship is in St. Louis on April 28-30.
In the other FIRST district on March 4-5 at Traverse City Central, the alliance of Team 1918 from Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency, Team 201 from Rochester, and Team 141 from Holland West Ottawa was victorious.
For more on FIRSTs program in Michigan, visit www.firstinmichigan.org
St. John Rochester Wins State and Places 5th at National Competition
Rochester St. John Lutheran Middle School came home with a stellar fifth-place award in the National Engineers Week Future City Competition National Finals on Feb. 22 in Washington, D.C.
The team was also presented with a special award for the
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