2012 Purdue Boilermaker Regional CHAMPIONS!

Published by Chris on March 18, 2012 in Press Releases. 0 Comments

Huntington County 4-H FIRST Robotics team 1501 came home the winners of the 2012 Boilermaker FIRST Robotics Regional competition. This is the first regional win for Team 1501 after three silver medal finishes in recent seasons. The competition included 40 teams from the Midwest and was held at the Purdue University Campus in West Lafayette, IN. They competed on an alliance of three robotics teams; the other two being Team Argos 1756 of Peoria, IL as well as Team Eagle Robotics 4028 of Cincinnati, OH. This win secures them a position in the FIRST World Championships in St. Louis this April.

This years game, Rebound Rumble, is based on Basketball with robots shooting balls into tiered netted hoops and then challenged to balance all three robots on a teeter totter style bridge.

In addition to winning the regional, the team also took home the Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors, and the Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories. Adi Ben-Yehoshua, a senior on the team is one of two students from the competition to be selected as a Finalists for the FIRST Dean’s List this award recognizes outstanding student leaders who embodies the ideals of FIRST

FIRST Robotics, FRC, is a “Varsity” sport for the mind. Combining the excitement of a sport with the rigors of science and technology.  Under strict rules, limited resources and limited time teams often with less than 20 students are challenged to raise funds, design a team brand, hone teamwork skills and then are given only 6 weeks to design, build and program then compete against other similar FRC teams. It is as close to real world engineering as a student can get.  Volunteer professional mentors lend their time and talents to guide each team.

Students get:

To learn from professionals engineers, marketing and business professionals.
Build and compete with a robot of their own design.
Learn to and use sophisticated software and hardware.
Compete and cooperate in alliances and tournaments.
Earn a place in the World Championships.
Qualify to earn nearly $14.8 million in college scholarships.

Huntington County 4H First Robotics Team 1501 will be attending the World Championships April 25-28 and is currently in search of sponsors to help them raise $5, 000 to fund their trip where they will compete with over 340 other FRC teams from all over the world.

Our first “triple stack”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Links

Championships
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/championship-event

FIRST
http://www.usfirst.org/

Huntington County 4H FIRST Robotics
http://www.huntingtonrobotics.org

More Photos from the 2012 Boilermaker Regional - via Wayne Doenges
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teamthrust1501/sets/72157629613020513/

2012 Knoxville Competition Results

Published by Chris on March 8, 2012 in Press Releases. 1 Comment
We seeded 6th out of 54 teams in Knoxville, TN. Not a bad finish for our first competition.
Rankings, Match Results, and Awards are posted here: (Team 1501)

We also won the Imagery Award!
Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen
The Imagery Award is in honor of Jack Kamen, Dean’s father for Jack’s inspirational dedication to art and illustration, his gifted creativity and devotion to FIRST. The Imagery Award celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration from the machine to the team appearance.
We ended up playing in the elimination brackets, but was put out of the tournament in the Quarter Finals. we attempted to be the first in the WORLD to stack 3 robots, but we just ran out of time. Our team stacked 3 robots on the practice field twice. Attached is a nice picture of this.
Somehow we managed to avoid all the tornados down south, but on the way home, we crosses a tornado path that went across I-75 that was just surreal. You see things on TV, but it just never hits you until you see it in real life. We hoped everyone was ok.
We made it home safe, and this was a good event for us. The kids worked together and learned ALOT about teamwork.
This week we are preparing to attend Purdue Boilermaker Regional. I hope some of you can make it. Please come and watch on Saturday morning. March 17th. The event is from March 15-17 at the Purdue Armory Building. Friday and Saturday mornings are the best chances to see us play. – Chris
Boilermaker Event page: http://regional.purduefirst.org/

2012 Season Robot Unveiling – Open House

Published by Chris on February 16, 2012 in Information. 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Huntington County 4-H Robotics Team THRUST 1501 invites the public to come to the unveiling of our 2012 competition robot.  Come to the community building at Hier’s park from 6:30-7:30 PM on Monday, February 20th to learn about this year’s game, “Rebound Rumble”, and meet this year’s robot, “Dee Bomb”.  The team will be taking this robot to two competitions; the first one will be the Smokey Mountain Regional in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 1-3, and the next one will be the Boilermaker Regional in West Lafayette, Indiana on March 15-17.

2012 Season Kickoff Information

Published by Chris on December 19, 2011 in Information. 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We would like to invite 9th – 12th grade students to the beginning of our 2012 season. We call this event our “kickoff”. This is the start of a brainstorming process and design cycle of our 2012 season robot. We will have just 6 weeks to design, build and test a 120 lbs robot to play the 2012 FIRST robotics game.

Who: Huntington County 4-H Robotics – Team THRUST 1501

Where: Huntington University – Science Building

Team arrives “PROMPTLY” at Huntington University, Science Building.(see HU campus map, building #22 on the map) parking in rear or right out front in big parking lot: Go to Hiner Hall on second floor inside building. http://www.huntington.edu/uploadedFiles/About/Campus_Map/HU-Campus-Map.pdf

When:  8:00AM

Why: 2012 FIRST Robotics Season Kickoff Event
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc

Please contact us if you plan on attending, so we can email you more detailed information about the kickoff event.

Live on NASA TV: Jan 7th, 10am EST
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Download the AGENDA:
2012-Kickoff-at-HU

Robotics Pizza Hut Fundraiser

Published by Chris on December 8, 2011 in Information. 0 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please come eat Pizza with us:
Monday, December 12th from 5-8:30PM at Pizza Hut.

Pizza Hut Fundraiser
101 Frontage Road
Huntington, IN 46750
260-356-7022
  • Huntington County 4-H Robotics 1501 TeamThrust
  • Monday, December 12, 2011
  • 5:00-8:30 pm
  • Pizza Hut donates $1.00 for every Adult Buffet purchased and all Tips received during the buffet hours
  • Come join us for an evening of great food and great fun! Invite all of your friends and family, too!