University of New Hampshire
This competition was located at the beautiful college of New Hampshire. Aces
High was very successful at this competition with coming in first place overall
for the highest scored points and second place in the alliances. Aces High had
won all but one match throughout Thursday and Friday up until the final matches.
Our autonomous was successful for every match except for one of our matches in
the semi finals and one of our matches in the finals. Our robot went all the way
and was in an alliance with team 131 and 3597 during the finals. We had won our
first match but then lost our next two matches causing the other alliance to win
the competition. We had some troubles with our robot throughout the competition
with our arm not picking up the robot but we didn't stop fighting through it.
Aces High used all the great minds of our team to fix the troubles and be able
to make the robot able of picking up and shooting balls at amazing accuracy. We
also had a specific sign that the human player used to let the drive team know
when they were at a correct spot to shoot. Our human player would focus on the
robot and when it was located at the correct distance from the shooting targeted
goal, he would fly his hands up in a sign of "GOAL!" Our whole team in the
stands decided that it would show good team spirit and support for our team to
participate with the human player. in other words, every time the human player
would put his hands up in the air, so would everyone else on our team in the
stands. We would all stand up and put our hands up and cheer. Aces High is not
several different students focusing on different things. We are a team, a
family, that works as a unit and supports and cheers for everyone not the team
for our best results. Our team not only spent all our time at the competition,
but we also had a new favorite diner to visit, which we visited for two
breakfasts and two dinners. It gave us a time to spend with each other and talk
about not only the competition but other things that brought us closer as a
team. Aces High understands that to work together, we have to understand each
other and know each other and our trip to the University of New Hampshire gave
our team that chance. Even though we didn't win the competition in its whole, we
tried our hardest and scored an amazing amount of points. Aces High also did
amazingly for the chairmans award. We were scored exceptionally excellent for
everything about our presentation and our outreach. Overall, Aces High went to
UNH and gave it our all and succeeded. We did what we want and can't wait to go
to Hartford regional and play our hardest again.
Ciera Tseka
WOW!!! Wish everyone could have made the UNH trip. You made one amazing robot. We were 11 and 1 in qualifications for number 1 seed and ended up Finalists and winners of a very well earned Motorola Quality Award.
FTC is competing today in Westport and I will forward the results to the whole team as soon as I know them. They are playing for a chance to go to St Louis. Go Aces High Too!!!
1. Our performance earned us enough points to almost guarantee a spot at the district championships in Boston so plans need to be made for that. Also the top 16 point earners (Not including the 14 automatic qualifiers) in New England will go to St Louis, so we should look ahead to that as it approaches.
It was a busy three days but the team did well!!
Our Robot is named Ms. Stacy!!
Our trophies for Quality award and Second place in the event. Way to go Aces High 176!!
After picking Stephen up from the airport, we spent the weekend in the yard trying to get all the leaves picked up. It wasn't the warmest day, but at least no snow or rain!! The yard and garden look decent and we got our Koi pond going. Have crocus and tulips coming up...didn't know because they were all buried under leaves. Had a few sightings of Myrtle the Turtle and all our Koi survived the long, cold winter!! After the outside work, we spent a few hours on the inside preparing for an open house. I sometimes feel like I cheated because I made cookies right before the open house...the house smelt like freshly cooked cookies!! We had 16 groups attend the open house. Keeping our fingers crossed for a bid!!!
