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March 14, 2015
In this Issue:
We do well at Glacier Peak, and win a prestigious award!
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by Aila Ikuse
From March 6th - 8th Spartronics competed at our first robotics competition of the season in Glacier Peak. GAEA rocked the competition, we had no major issues with her whatsoever. After competing in 12 Qualifying matches, we were in 8th place, which meant that we could choose our own alliance for the Final matches. We ended up getting picked to enter into an alliance by the 3rd highest ranking team, which we graciously accepted. Although we did not make it pass the quarter finals, we only missed it by one spot.
Overall we ended ranking in 10th out of 33 teams, and are currently 49th out of over 100 teams in the Pacific Northwest. The top 64 teams from Oregon and Washington go to Regionals.If we keep on this trajectory, we have a good chance of making Regionals!
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We won the highly coveted "Engineering Inspiration Award"!
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by Aila Ikuse
At Glacier Peak, Spartronics won the prestigious "Engineering Inspiration Award". This award automatically qualifies the team to attend Districts (or State), but we have to qualify with our robot through points if we want to compete.
This award is the second highest honor that our team could win and will give the team bonus points. This award celebrates a team's outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers; both within their school as well as their community. Criteria include: The extent and inventiveness of the team's efforts to recruit students to engineering, the extent and effectiveness of the teams community outreach efforts, and the measurable success of those efforts.
Watch us win the award here!
http://youtu.be/WTsauG-a5NY?t=38m35s
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Robotics Competition at Shorewood coming up
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by Aila Ikuse
March is Spartronics first robotics competition of the season! We will be going to Shoreline this weekend and competing with other robotics teams in the region. If you are unable to make it, FIRST livestreams the entire event (see link below).Be sure to check social media and our website for live updates from the team!
Shorewood Livestream
http://spartronics4915.com/events/
More information
http://www.usfirst.org/whats-going-on/event/10853
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