St. Louis Regional FRC Champions!

St. Louis Regional FRC Champions

 PWNAGE FRC Team #2451 from the Fox Valley area won the FIRST Robotics Regional competition in St. Louis, Missouri.  This past weekend 3/12/2016 the PWNAGE FIRST Robotics team and their alliance partners beat out the other competitors at St. Louis Chaifetz Arena to advance to the world championships at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis April 27-30, 2016.

 

PWNAGE Team Members

Our Alliance Partners Ultimate Protection Squad Team # 1675

Our Alliance Partners Rambunction Team #4330

 In addition to their victory, the team also won the Industrial Design award. This award, sponsored by General Motors, is presented to the team that “Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that most effectively addresses the game challenge”. The PWNAGE robot was one of the few robots at the competition that could complete all of the required challenges within the Stronghold competition. These challenges include:  autonomous programming, climbing a wall, lift its own weight above 24 inches, shoot a ball in a high goal and put a ball in a low goal, open gates, and travel over various obstacles (aka defenses).

  After the team’s weekend victory at the Chaifetz Arena, PWNAGE is now preparing for the FRC World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri where it will face off against hundreds of international competitors. The robot has been bagged and tagged, not to be opened again until the team competes again at the University of Illinois in Chicago the first weekend in April then again when it arrives in St. Louis. In the meantime, members are able to engineer parts. PWNAGE team members are working on how to improve the drive train and each function for their robot at the championships.

FIRST robotics competitions are the varsity Sport for the Mind, FRC combines the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. Under strict rules, limited resources, and time limits, teams ranging from less than 10 to over 50 or more high school aged students are challenged to raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and build and program robots to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors. It’s as close to "real-world engineering" as a student can get. Volunteer professional mentors lend their time and talents to guide each team while building the students’ knowledge and engineering capabilities.

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