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Northern California Newsletter
June-July, 2012
Hi Everyone,
Summer is upon us and lots of activities are in the works. The big news is the opening of "The Play Space" in San Jose, CA. I attended the open house on June 16th. This is the only place outside of Manchester where all 4 FIRST programs can be found under one roof. A big thank you to Playing@Learning for their hard work and drive to make this a reality. I hope each of you has the opportunity to visit this wonderful place in the near future. What's next - it's time for off-season events and planning for next season.
Teri Benart - FIRST Senior Mentor
St Louis Championships - What an amazing experience to
be part of the Championships in St. Louis. I am sure that all the teams that attended had a great time and enjoyed the event. Listed below are the Claifornia
Teams that participated in the finals and those that wone awards. Congratulations to following Championship finalists and award winners.
California Finalists:
Curie Division Champion - Team 207 Metalcrafters,
Hawthorne High School, Hawthrone, CA
Curie Division Finalist - Team 254 Cheesy Poofs, Bellarmine
College Prep, San Jose, CA
Newton Division Finalist - Team 330 Hope Chapel Academy
High School, Los Angeles, CA
Curie Division Quarterfinalist -Team 971 Mountain View
High School, Mountain View, CA
Archimedes Division Quarterfinals -Team 973 GreyBots,
Atascadero High School, Atascadero, CA
Curie Division Coopertition Award - Team 1266 Devil
Duckies, Madison High School, San Diego, CA
Galileo Division Semifinalist - Team 1323 Madera High
School, Madera, CA
Newton Division Quarterfinalist - Team 1662 Jim Elliott
Christian High School, Lodi, CA
Galileo Division Quarterfinalist Team 1671 Buchanan High
School, Clovis, CA
Curie Division Quarterfinalist -Team 1678 DaVinci
Academy, Davis, CA
Newton Division Semifinalist - Team 1717 Dos Pueblos
High School, Goleta, CA
California Championship Awards:
Championship Finalist – Team 207, METALCRAFTERS,
Hawthorne High School, Hawthorne, CA
Creativity Award Sponsored by Xerox – Team 1717,
D'Penguineers, Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA.
Excellence in Engineering Award Sponsored by Delphi –
Team 973, Greybots, Atascadero, CA.
Excellence in Design Award (3D Animation) Sponsored by
Autodesk – Team 192, GRT, Gunn High School, Palo Alto,
CA.
Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen – Team 1266, The
Devil Duckies, San Diego, CA.
Website Award – Team 115, MVRT, Monta Vista High
School Cupertino, CA.
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Important Upcoming Dates:
The following California Offseason Events are scheduled and
will be utilizing the field that is now part being permanently
housed at Play Space here in Northern California. The events
will leverage the Rebound Rumble game:
Date Location
Sept 14-15 PowerHouse Science Center (Sacramento) –
Oct 12-13 CalGames (Woodside
Oct 19-20 Battle at the Border (San Diego)
Oct 26-27 LA Robotics Fall Classic (LA)
Nov 9-10 Madtown Throwdown (Madera)
IMPORTANT NOTE: FRC Field usage must be requested
and approved by either Jim Beck and/or Ken Mitchell. The
FRC Field is property of FIRST and as such requires the
appropriate approvals for usage.
Open House at Play Space - June 16, 2012
If you need help in anyway, please don't
hesitate to contact me. I can be reached at (831) 818-
1347 or email at [email protected].
The Jr.FLL will start up in August with the SUPER
SENIORS(SM) Challenge. Teams will learn about simple
machines as they build a model made of LEGO® elements
with a motorized moving part and create a team Show-Me
Poster to represent their findings. For more information
about this exciting new challenge for ages 6-9 check out the
following sites:
http://www.playingatlearning.org/JFLL/index.html http://www.juniorfirstlegoleague.org/2012-super-seniors-
challenge.html
Congratulations to the following Northern
California Teams that participated in the
following invitational's:
Brazil International Championship March 2-4:
Warriorbots Valley Christian Schools San Jose, CA Representing USA
FLL World Festival April 25-28: Toga Robotics Redwood Middle School Saratoga, CA representing East Bay LegoNauts Lawson Middle School Cupertino, CA representing Peninsula Robotatouille Folsom, CA representing Capital BotWorks San Jose, CA representing Silicon Valley
Florida Open Championship May 4-6:
RoboRangers Cupertino, CA representing NorCal Region LEGOLAND California Open Championship May 18-20 Food Guardians San Ramon, CA representing East Bay Androids Palo Alto, CA representing Peninsula BEBO Weimar Hlls School Meadow Vista,CA representing Capital The Brickheads San Jose, CA representing Silicon Valley
FLL has opened registration for the 2012 Senior Solutions season registration. Teams can register wityh FIRST at: https://gofll.usfirst.org/ The actual challenge will be announced on August 28, 2012. For more information see the following site: https://gofll.usfirst.org/pages/schedule A big thank you to all of the FLL, FTC and FRC teams that participated in the Maker's Faire May 19-20 in San Mateo. Great showing and participation from our FIRST Family.
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Upcoming FLL/FTC Events:
FLL Challenge announced - August 28, 2012
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The NorCal FTC teams that competed in St.
Louis Championships are listed below: Team Name Location 3509 PHOENXTRIX Folsom (Inspire Award - 1st place) 524 Boss Bots Moraga (Captain Winning Alliance) 4529 Antipodes Pacifica (Inspire Award - 2nd place) 4963 Nova Folsom (Inspire Award at Northern Nevada Championship) 4238 Robo Chicken Gator El Dorado Hills Flys of Papayaland (Winning Alliance Captain at Las Vegas Championship)
Congratulations to all of the FTC Teams.
Registration for the 2012-2013 Season open up in
May. For further NorCal FTC Championship
results please use the following link:
http://www.norcalftc.org/
_____________________________________ If you have an event or article that you would like to share - please email me and I would love to put it in our monthly newsletter - Thank you, Teri Benart- Senior Mentor - NorCal - [email protected]
I have included a gallery of photo's from the
PlaySpace Open House on June 16th. I hope all
of you have the opportunity to visit this
incredible place. Jill Wilker and Mark Edellman
from Playing@learning are open to suggestions
for use, hours and general ideas for making this
location a place for all FIRST teams to utilize.
Please don't hesitate to contact either of them at:
[email protected] or (510)656-8664.
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