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
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!
Congratulation to the 2011 Thunderbirds for qualifying at Science Central FLL qualifier. Pictured from the left (front row): Jacob Ely, Brooke Elston, Claudia Sewell, Jacob Garlits, Tyler McCaulley, Rick Sands, (back row): Kathryn Ausban, Connor Nash, and Montana Phillips.
The Indiana State Championship event will be held on Dec 10th, on Saturday at the IPFW campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This past Saturday Team THRUST 1501 attended the Indiana Rookie exhibition “The CAGE Match”. More information can be found here: http://thecagematch.com. THRUST 1501 took potentional 2012 rookie kids from the Huntington area in a friendly competition with other surrounding Indiana teams in an off season event designed to expose new students interested in joining the 4-H robotics club.
A month prior, THRUST 1501 dropped of their spare robot at Knightstown, Indiana to a new forming rookie team at Knightstown High School. Knightstown used THRUST 1501 duplicate robot to practice with in preparation of The CAGE Match. Pitted next to each other, THRUST 1501 mentored the rookie team who has given themselves the name, “The Last Crusaders”. Their official FIRST robotics team number is 3947.
As the day progressed, THRUST 1501 was able to alliance with The Last Crusaders 3947 in the elimination rounds. “It was amazing to see both of our robots on the same alliance” THRUST 1501 Marketing Mentor Sondra Fowler said. The twin robots defeated the qualifying rival team and advanced to the Semi Final rounds where the alliance faced off with Cyber Blue 234 and their alliance.
History has it that Cyber Blue 234 defeated THRUST 1501 at the 2011 Purdue Regional this season. During match one in the semi final rounds, Cyber Blue beat THRUST’s alliance. In the second round it was exciting that THRUST’s alliance won that round 80-70 and forced the rubber match. The third round resulted in a loss to Cyber Blue’s Alliance once again 126-76 with Cyber Blue 234 alliance putting up two mini-bots. “Those mini-bots have been beating us all year and have once again reared their ugly…” said Chris Elston. In the end the twin Taranis robots put up a total of 4 LOGOs in the semi final round, impressive robots for the 2011 season that could tube quite well (with no mini-bot).
“We also had another great experience by mentoring a rookie team”. said Elston, “We are hooked!” said Terri Driesbach, new Mentor from The Last Crusaders. “This is what CAGE Match is about, is to bring new teams and new students to an event and get them excited about the 2012 season” said Elston.
For the third season in a row, Huntington County 4-H Robotics sponsors the Thunderbirds FLL (FIRST LEGO League) for 2011. This years FLL number is 1313. The game this year is Food Factor. More information about the project and LEGO missions can be viewed online at USFIRST.org
Crestview middle school science teacher Mr. Travis Bollinger is leading the LEGO group along with Team THRUST 1501 mentors Chris Elston and Sondra Fowler. Other Team THRUST 1501 students will be mentoring the LEGO kids in passing along the knowledge they have learned from the high school robotics program. Thunderbirds will compete November 20th at the Fort Wayne, Indiana qualifier. More photos can be viewed here.
