won nyc first robotics regional

I mentor the programmers on a local robotics team. We had the NYC regional competition ending today and won! So excited. The robot didn't do well yesterday. The kids fixed the problems yesterday evening and fielded a great robot today.

If you live in a city with a regional or district event, I recommend you check it out in person. It's a great atmosphere and is great to see.

Our robot. (Match videos aren't up yet)
Teaser video

Way to go, Jeanne and team! Congrats.

(P.S. YouTube video not working for me.)

And an animation of the game itself:

Bear Bibeault wrote:(P.S. YouTube video not working for me.)

Unembedded the link. It works now.

Congrats!

A good buddy of mine mentors a team out of Charlotte NC. They went to their first regional last weekend, and had a few problems with updates to software that were NOT fully tested, and changes to features that were not communicated to the users (aka drivers). Obviously, a real world learning experience for software engineers.

Great, congratulations!

I'm sure it's a lot of fun to work with a team of people on those robots.

Video is up. Here's a good match to watch. That page links to finals as well. I found the semis to be more dramatic because we were up against the top ranked alliance. The team I mentor fielded #694 - the white box looking one.

Note with 30 seconds left we got all 4 in quickly.

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:We had the NYC regional competition ending today and won! So excited.

excited. it was not expected ?

even I do lot excited but people says doing so much ;)

Congrats!

But you guys must be crazy - haven't you seen the "Terminator" movies???

There is no fate but what we make.

That is super cool.

Do we get to see "making of" videos?

Super dope. How old are the kids?

paul wheaton wrote:Do we get to see "making of" videos?

The team didn't take those this year. There are a couple of videos while testing desiree (the robot) though

Shannon Graham wrote:Super dope. How old are the kids?

High school - so 14-18 years old.