Well, all the travel, judging, practice, qualifiers & eliminations are over, and Teams 2818 and 1629 are back home, exhausted.

No awards were won, and no robots took any grand prizes, but it was a HECK of a GOOD time.

The teams met lots of cool people, showed off their skills to a huge audience, and learned some valuable lessons for next year.

These kids (young adults) never cease to amaze me with their positive attitudes and desire to excell.

Here is a youtube clip of how to remote control a car (a real one).

Do try this at home!

We have lots of cool Summer Tech Camps planned this year.

Click on the "Tech Camps" and "SeaPerch" tabs at the top of this page for more details.

At the FRC Chesapeake Regional in Baltimore Maryland today, Team 1629 (GaCo) won the coveted Chairman's award.

The Chairman’s Award was created to keep the central focus of the FIRST Robotics Competition as our ultimate goal for transforming the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology, as well as encourage more of today’s youth to become scientists, engineers, and technologists.

As we prepare for our FTC competition in Cincinati Ohio, I thought we should show off some of our new Autonomous modes.

Here is a sample video on youtube.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQRtikBn5Y

These are just some (and not even our best) auto modes.

Phil.

Hi everyone.

Although it's SimPerch 3.0, it's the first Official release of the Seaperch Simulator that Kendrick Bender has written.

Download the installer from here: http://tinyurl.com/simperch

It's 29MB, so it may take a while on a slow connection.
Once you have the file, just run it to install the program.

Here are 4 YouTube links for a cool FIRST Robotics Competition Movie.

It follows 4 FRC teams from around the country from Kickoff to Competition.

Miss Daisy, (a Baltimore MD team) is one of the 4 teams.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

This cool video shows MIT's "Little Dog" in action over various terrains.

Click for Video

Keeping track of all those FTC parts is tricky.

This year we have a rolling bin cart.

Click the pic links below. Now you see them, now you don't.

Phil.

Join us at GEARS to watch the kickoff on the big-screen, or watch it at home online:

Click here to watch

5:00pm Eastern time.

Be there or be booring !!!