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Team wins Houston World Championships Inspire Award
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World Championships: Team nominated for three awards
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FIX IT’s Aila Simpson selected for Dean’s List 2017
Aila has won Dean’s List Award!!!!
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World Championships: Day 2
Today went quite well for us. We played in four matches, and the robot performed very well in three of them, and fine in the fourth. We ended up winning two, so our overall ranking has improved to 35th. We lost one match 200 – 205, it was a nail-biter…
World Championships: Day 1
FIX IT had a good first day at the Championships.
FIX-IT is off to the World Championships in Houston
The 3491-FIX-IT team is off to the FTC World Championships in Houston which will run from April 19th through 22nd).
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World Championships: Day 3
Today was Tiara Friday, so everyone wore tiaras on their hats. Helen and Guy, since they were attending the Dean’s List Lunch, drove for the first match. Unfortunately, the phone on the robot controller crashed, most likely due to a motor controller returning bad values. We mistakenly thought this to be a fluke. During our last match of the day, that motor controller disconnected, not allowing us to use the arm properly. Clearly, we’ve now replaced that motor controller.
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World Championships: Day 2
Today, we won all three of our matches!
World Championships: Day 1
The team is at the FTC World Championships. The morning was busy with setting up the pit, inspections, and our judging interview.
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Give a winning tip for rookie teams—and win a prize
To mark the occasion of the World Championships, 3491-FIX-IT has launched a contest for the best tips for a rookie FTC team, open to all FTC teams at the Championship, with handsome prizes courtesy of 3491 sponsor, Actuonix Motion Devices.
For details, see the Rookie Tips Contest page.