FIRST Robotics

Crown City Robotics had a great time at the FIRST Robotics competition today. I brought The Danish with me to see the extravaganza (He loved it!). The team did well finishing eighth out of more than 60 in the qualifying rounds before the final. Each match is played with an "alliance" of three teams competing against another "alliance". The eighth place finish qualified Crown City to select their alliance going into the final. Congrats team!

Crown City fixing their bot after their final qualifying round:

Cheering on Crown City with Shana and Carlos:

This is what the "arena" looked like:

Andrew and Connor helping another team with a technical problem:

Engineers at work:

The robots had to shoot frisbees through those "goals" to score points. At the end of the match they could earn bonus points by climbing those "pyramids":

Safety first! Everyone including Dane wears eye protection in the pit:

Quite a spectacle:

Those wacky engineers!: