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Garrett robotics team gets top honors at Ohio event

Students win Chairman’s Award; invited to world championship in St. Louis

For the Cumberland Times-News Cumberland Times-News

2012 — OAKLAND — Garrett County’s High School FIRST Robotics Competition GaCo Team 1629 received top honors at the FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition in Cleveland.

The event was held last weekend at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. Garrett County was the only Maryland team competing at the Ohio competition.

During the three-day event, team members competed with 58 other teams from surrounding states.

Teams were judged in many areas in addition to how well their robot placed during the competition, including robot control and design awards, team imagery, spirit and community impact.

Of the awards, Team 1629 received the Chairman’s Award, the most prestigious award that FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) offers in their regional competitions.

In addition to winning the Chairman’s Award, the team’s robot was the eighth-seeded robot after competing in 10 qualification matches that earned the team the right to compete in elimination rounds and survived to the semi-final matches before being eliminated at the Buckeye Regional.

The team receiving the Chairman’s Award, in view of the judges, is the team that best exemplifies the mission of FIRST. The FIRST mission is to change the way young people regard science and technology and to inspire an appreciation

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>Robotics Team Wins World Honor

Teenage robotics experts from both Northern and Southern high schools combined forces to compete on the global stage last weekend at St. Louis, Mo., where they were rewarded with the 2011 Championship’s Engineering Inspiration (EI) Award. This honor recognizes a team’s success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within its school and community. A team spokesperson said this is the second most prestigious honor awarded any team at the world event, putting the Garrett County teenagers ahead of more than 350 teams from the USA, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia. See story for complete details. Pictured in the front row, from left, are Jocelyn Williams, Julianne MacLennan, Jake Bramande, Aryne Riley, Jeffrey Trautwein, and Haley Margroff. Second row, same order: Rachael Huxford, Kyle Maust, Aaron Beitzel, Nick McGettigan, and Rosemary Rosser. Third row: Sam Thomas, Joseph Burdock, Brandon Tichnell, Trevor Green, Kyle Herring, Becca Lee, Emily Huxford, and Jacob Williams. Not present for the photo were members Elizabeth Green, Ben Nairn, Kevin Haenftling, Levi Lantz, and Aaron Lantz.

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>FIRST Robotics Team Garners International Inspiration Award

>May. 5, 2011

Garrett County’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 1629, which is made up of students from both Northern and Southern high schools, landed an international award last weekend at St. Louis, Mo., where the team competed in the 2011 FIRST World Championships.

Team 1629, nicknamed “GaCo” – short for Garrett Coalition – was presented with the 2011 Championships Engineering Inspiration (EI) Award, recognizing “outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community.”

This is the second most prestigious award a team can receive from FIRST at the World Championship. Team 1629 was up against more than 350 teams from the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia in competition for this honor.

The local teenagers competed in the Archimedes Division at the event, and achieved a 7-3 record. Their robot’s performance earned the team the 19th rank out of 88 teams in their division.

Before achieving the opportunity to take part in the St. Louis event, the team competed in the Pittsburgh and Buckeye Regional events. The Pittsburgh Regional was the first competition of the year, where Team 1629 garnered a 5-8 record and lost in the quarter finals round of the competition. At that event, the team won the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award, which recognized an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions.

At the Buckeye Regional held in Cleveland, Ohio, the team had a 6-3 record and then lost in the semi-finals. At this contest, Team 1629 received the Xerox Creativity Award and the Regional’s Engineering Inspiration (EI) Award. The regional EI award qualified the team to compete in the St. Louis world championships.

There were four other Garrett County teams at the world event, and all fared well. FIRST Tech Challenge Teams Techno Clovers, G-Force, and FIRST Lego League (FLL) were all in comptition, with Clovers and G-Force achieving finalist positions in their divisions for being finalists in their division, and Team NeXT GEN which received the third place Strategy and Innovation Award. A report about these teams will be published in next week’s issue.

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