This past weekend, the Valentine and Carver FIRST Lego League teams competed at the long-awaited regional hosted at local Carver Elementary School. A total of 21 teams gathered in the school gymnasium to showcase their season of hard work optimizing a Lego Mindstorm robot for the 2018-19 Into Orbit FLL Challenge.
At the competition, Titanium Robotics members volunteered as judges, pit runners, and referees making sure the tournament would run as smoothly as possible. Judges met with each other to decide on what they were looking for and the questions that would settle that search before interviewing five teams each, pit runners made sure each team knew exactly where they needed to be at what time, and referees oversaw each match to verify and score a fair game.
Along with competing on the field, each FLL team presented a project that identified a physical and/or social problem faced by astronauts on long-term missions. These projects were scored based on their presentation, problem, research, and solution. They were then each questioned about their robot design, mechanical engineering, programming, strategy, and innovation. Finally, team members described the FLL CORE values and how they demonstrated them before being rated on their inspiration, teamwork, and gracious professionalism.
The FLL team Titanium Robotics mentored, now officially dubbed as the Carver Coding Crashers, debuted at the Carver Regional, placing eighth in their rookie year! The judges were especially impressed at their accomplishments as a rookie team and looked forward to future appearances by the Coding Crashers.
Please make sure to support Titanium Robotics at the Mendocino Farms fundraiser on December 2nd from 5 to 8pm. Find the flyer at titaniumrobotics.com. Also look forward to Maker Faire on December 1 and Walk the Town down Huntington Drive on December 8.
Titanium Robotics is a team consisting of over 100 students, mainly from San Marino High School, who come together with a common interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students learn from professional engineers and mentors to build and compete in the annual FIRST Robotics Challenge with a robot of their own design. Programming, electrical work, computer-aided design, and business management are all run by student representatives, making the entire organization student-led from start to finish.
