There are a number of whimsical head sculptures on the UC Davis campus. Thursday, March 21st.
Andrea got this photo of the field in the ARC Pavilion all set up and ready for practice matches.
The pit is all set up and ready to go.
Mark Leon, with the NASA blue hair, whom the students know from the Hawaii Regionals, was master of ceremonies.
Working on the robot.
Carmel High School's Rockin Bots had a good looking robot. I was born in Carmel and my sister went to high school there for a while.
Kalani loads the robot onto the field. Friday, March 22nd.
Working on the robot.
Kalani loads the robot onto the field. They had the robot working on the field for all but one of their qualifying matches.
During a match.
Drive team ready for a match. The team got the frisbee shooter working, all set for competition in Honolulu!
Robert Wagner took this photo of me at the event. Saturday, March 23rd.
My son Robert and his wife Michelle came to Davis from Sacramento to join us in watching the competition.
We sat high up in the bleachers on the left side of the competition field.
Andrea continued photo-documenting the event. Photo by Robert Wagner.
From this high corner we could see the whole ARC Pavilion.
Students watch the elimination matches. Photo by Robert Wagner.
Robert, Michelle, Ann, Andrea, and Bryan.
The team posed for a photo at the end of the event.
The Space Cookies won silver in the competition and the Chairman's Award. Photo by Robert Wagner.
2489 won gold.
Packing up the robot in the shipping container.
We went to dinner at Cafe Italiano in Davis, passing through this pedestrian tunnel first.
Robert posted this image of the newspaper reporting of the event in Facebook. Photo by Robert Wagner.
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