Atlanta Championship Update: 4/18/08

Posted by Rachel on 18 April 2008 | 0 Comments

Tags: atlanta, championship

Today was the first day of qualification matches. The competition officially began with the Opening Ceremonies, which recognized the major sponsors of FIRST and acknowledged several award winners as well as including statements by Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST, Woodie Flowers, FIRST advisor, and Paul Guidonis, the president of FIRST who'd been with us at our legislative presentation. They were also joined by former President George H. W. Bush, who was one of the major supporters of FIRST at its incenption. Qualifying matches began shortly afterwards. Our robot performed well, but our alliances were not always effective. We lost our first two matches and won the next two, leaving us with a record of 2-2 and a ranking of 51 out of 85 teams in our division. Tomorrow, we have an additional two matches before the elimination rounds begin.
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After matches today, we took a group photo (that we hope to have posted here soon) and visited the Georgia Aquarium, which was a very cool, interactive aquarium. Tomorrow will be the last day of competition and the FIRST Finale party in the evening. We're all looking forward to it.
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EDIT: We also gave our Chairman's Award presentation, which was well-recieved.