Huntington County 4-H Robotics

We’ve had a wonderful last minute chance to go and compete at the Connecticut Regional this year April 1 - 3, 2010. Our team members are exciting to go this weekend. One of the most special things about this trip is visiting with our local corporate sponsor United Technologies in Hartford, CT. We’ve been warm welcomed by the Connecticut Regional Chairperson as well as promised personal visits from the Vice President of Research Center of UTEC in Connecticut and many other UTEC contacts to stop by our pit. UTEC sponsors 35 teams in the USA. This is an excellent chance for our Huntington, IN students to make an appearance on UTEC’s corporate soil with an already competitive robot. This will be Team THRUST’s first appearance at the Connecticut Regional as well playing Breakaway with all the other UTEC teams in Connecticut that we’ve never had a chance to meet. New friends will certainly be remembered.

http://www.utc.com/Corporate+Responsibility/First

For more live and update to date information as the weekend unfolds, please visit the following links.

• CT Regional Home
• Schedule
• Team List
• Location & Directions

More links will become active on Friday, April 2, 2010.

Follow Team 1501 at the FRC Connecticut Regional.

Live webcast. (Scroll down to WEEK 5 and select Connecticut Regional)
http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/2010_frcwebcasts.php#webcasts

Match updates will begin Friday:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/events/CT/matchresults.html

Ranking updates will begin Friday here:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/events/CT/rankings.html

Award updates will begin Friday here:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2010comp/events/CT/awards.html

Follow us on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/team1501

Tomorrow marks the start of our SIXTH season as Huntington County 4-H Robotics. Another exciting year none the least. We’ve had some wonderful sponsorships again this year from BAE Systems, NASA, Henline Towing, United Technologies, Indiana Workforce Development, National 4-H Council, United REMC Operation Round Up, PHD, Inc. and Huntington University. Thank you sponsors for making this possible to grow our students in our own community.

Kickoff will be held at Huntington University Science Building.
The agenda can be downloaded here if you can join us.
http://huntingtonrobotics.org/downloads/

Or you can watch it LIVE from home or your computer.

Saturday morning 10:00-noon EDT.

Watch it live on NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
or via webcast on http://robotics.nasa.gov/

Quick post….

We had a great time today, though we don’t have the final “rankings” we did win 2nd place for Teamwork! We also ran three rounds with the robot.

Round #1, ranked 29th

Round #2, ranked 13th

Round #3, ranked 13th

All the above rounds where out of 48 teams total. Our highest match was round #3 at 285 points out of 400 possible. More to come later…