We celebrate the things that really matter to us, and this year our had a lot to celebrate! Each and every member of our community, including each student, mentor, parent, sponsor and more was necessary to build a robot and a community that earned a spot to the World Championships this year.
At North Star, our breakneck drive team took our rigorously engineered robot all the way to finals. They played well, match after match, ending up on the 6th seed alliance. We lost – only to the first seed alliance, earning a ticket to FIRST World Championship!
We do more than robots. We build learners and explores.
In addition to playing great games and having a lot of fun, the team was recognized for something we worked really hard on. The Quality Award celebrates machine robustness in concept and
fabrication. The judges wrote:
Planned
Polished
Intentional
Design-driven
Attention to detail.
You can see great workmanship in the pit, paint, cart, and
controls.
All can believe the quality of this team’s purple bot to
be no myth
Team 2491
Way to go team!
Quality award
We arrived at the Northern Lights competition in Duluth on Wednesday night, with 23 students, 5 mentors and two robots. Our competition bot – Watt – performed beautifully and got lots of complements. Our team played hard, swiftly moving gears across the field and climbing the rope to board the airship. We finished 13th – not bad!
The group came home tired but jubilant, bubbling with ideas of things to do before our next competition in Minneapolis.