2017 Team Magma Houston Championship

The Kalani High School Team Magma is FRC 3008.

The FRC Championship was held at Houston, Texas, at the George R. Brown Convention Center, from Wednesday, April 19^th through Saturday, April 22^nd. The team stayed at the Houston Hyatt Regency hotel. Andrea and I stayed in Hawaii this year. The team flew early to Houston on Sunday, April 16^th, so they had some time for sight seeing before load-in on Wednesday.

Monday

The team rendezvoused at Honolulu international airport and flew to Houston overnight, arriving Monday morning.

They spent Monday sightseeing, here at a butterfly center.

Dinner Monday evening.

Tuesday

Tuesday at the NASA Houston space center.

Green screen.

Saturn V moon rocket.

A tour of the Robonauts (FRC 118) area.

The team met with Thunder Down Under for dinner.

Wednesday

Some sort of zombie escape adventure.

At the FIRST venue.

Waiting for load-in.

Loading in.

Practice matches.

Photo by Team Magma.

Waiting for dinner.

Thursday

The team won their first three matches.

Eating lunch with the Robonauts.

Robot in the pits.

Girls ready for Robo-Prom.

Boys ready for Robo-Prom.

Friday

Team Magma had a good day Friday, finishing number four in Newton Division.

The robot and drive team did very well.

From teacher and lead mentor Bryan Silver via email on Friday: "We finalized in 4th seed. with 8 wins, 1 lose and a tie. The kids are super excited. Thank you so much for helping us get here. Awards tomorrow and alliance selection fingers crossed we will see were we will go."

Saturday

The team got the Entrepreneurship Award at the Saturday morning awards ceremony.

Two team members getting the trophies.

Photo by Team Magma.

Our Newton Alliance: 3008, 1622 Spyder, 5842 Royal Robotics Florida, and 3489 Category 5 Florida. We won the quarterfinal
in three matches, and lost the semifinal in three matches. 3008 was the number three alliance captain.

The alliance drive team.

Einstein field at Houston Championship.

Here are some QuickTime movies:

MVI_4289.MOV
MVI_4375.MOV
MVI_4998.MOV
MVI_5005.MOV

Email Richard dot J dot Wagner at gmail dot com