Kalani Falcons 2011 Hawaii Regional Competition

FRC Team 3008

Thursday

The Hawaii Regional FRC was held at the sports arena (Stan Sheriff Center) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.


The Wailua team (359) in their pit.


The Kalani team (3008) gets their pit set up.


Our pit neighbors from Hilo.


359 has a great looking pit.


The pit and team coming together nicely.


Kalani team with visitors to the pit.


The arena is divided into competition and pit areas by the big curtain.

Friday


Opening ceremonies on Friday are always special. We had Polynesian dancing!


The Polynesian dancing was very exciting.


Excellent opening chant and drums accompanied the superb dancing.


Ready to start on the red alliance.


Lenore visits the team in the pit.


A student tells Lenore about the robot. She really enjoyed her visit.


Lenore, Rick, and Andrea with the robot.


Kalani in action on the blue alliance, picking up a triangle at the feeding slot.


Kalani carries the triangle to score on the blue end.


Steadily on to the rack for a score.


Score on the high peg for three points!


In another match, Kalani scores again!


Micro-mouse runs the maze in the robotics lab at UH during the team social Friday night.

Saturday


The team with the robot in the pit.


Waialua (359) gave us a peer award (wood base trophy in foreground). Trophies for the
Entrepreneurship Award are behind it.


We got some modern dance before the awards ceremony. Incredible dancers!

Here's a video of team introductions on Saturday morning.


A Windows media file (HawaiiRegional03.wmv), so you may need
to get a plugin if you are not using MSIE and this is the first
time you have played such a movie file.

Master of Ceremonies Mark Leon always sports blue hair at FIRST competitions.

Thursday Debriefing

The team met the Thursday following the competition for a debriefing meeeting.


We discussed what went well and what needed improvement.


Students took notes and talked about ways to improve next year.


Email: Richard dot J dot Wagner at gmail dot com

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