Once again we’ll be participating in the City of Kentwood’s 4th of July parade. Come watch our robots partake in the parade.
Tonight at EKHS we’ll be decorating our parade float and getting all of our batteries charged. Feel free to stop by and give us a hand.
Just ran across ftcstats.org and they ranked all of the teams that attended Worlds and their overall rank.
Red Storm White is listed in Rank 236 out of the 256 teams that attended Worlds.
FTC Stats also has details for other events, so feel free to check them out.
Also, there are some nice team pages (Kinda like The Blue Alliance for FRC) at ftcroot.com. Many thanks to the ChaosMonkeyz 11090 for hosting such a site.
Once again this summer, we are offering summer sessions for both FRC and FTC teams and interested students who will be in 6th to 12th grades this fall. Come visit us at East Kentwood High School in Room 206 (West Wing) every Thursday evening from 6:30 pm until 9pm.
Red Storm was featured on WZZM 13 TV as the team departed for the FIRST World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri.
For the first time ever, the Red Storm FTC will be heading to the World Championship which will be taking place at Union Station in St. Louis, MO from April 26 – April 29, 2017. This is such an exciting opportunity for our team! They will be joining 127 other teams from more than 50 countries. The team is very excited for the opportunity to meet and compete with so many different high school and middle school teams in the Velocity Vortex game. The next two weeks will be extremely busy as the team overhauls their robot and begin preparations for the upcoming trip.
In addition to the competition, the team will have the opportunity to get in some other neat activities such as a variety of conferences to attend or “A Night at the Ballpark” where FIRST teams have the chance to participate in a pre-game field parade at Busch Stadium. The team may also join in the FedEx Innovation Challenge which is a social-media-based competition consisting of math and science problems, scavenger hunt activities, trivia and more in which they could get a chance to win up to $5,000 for their team. Or perhaps they may get some time in their busy schedule to do some good old sight seeing! Wish us luck!
Be sure to check back or keep an eye on our Facebook Page for updates! You can also find out more about the FIRST World Championship at www.firstchampionship.org/st-louis-home
Our FTC teams had a good season this year. We started it off by hosting a Rookie Workshop to help other teams build the base push-bot chassis, which would enable them to have a fully driveable base to use in the season. We followed it up by hosting a scrimmage at STEMosphere held at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. This helped other local teams by being able to see the competition field and being able to see other teams robots in action.
This past season our three FIRST Tech Challenge Teams did quite well at their two FIRST in Michigan Qualifiers–including several overall team firsts.
At the Big Rapids FTC Qualifier the Red Storm Red – 6482 earned the highest placement in qualification rounds (2nd place). They also had the honor of being the first time as a captain of an alliance. Red Storm Blue – 10031 – was the first time since 2011 that we were on the winning alliance, and qualified them for the Michigan State Competition. The Blue team also earned the PTC Design Award. Not to be left out, Red Storm White – 5292 – won the Controls Award.
At the Kentwood FTC Qualifier the three teams performed quite well. The Red Storm Red – 6482 – team won the Controls Award. Red Storm White – 5292 – was nominated for several awards: Finalist for the Motivate Award, Finalist for the Promote Award and Third place for the Inspire Award. This is the first time that any Red Storm FTC Team or Red Storm FRC Team had placed for the top award (FTC – Inspire, FRC – Chairman’s).
Red Storm Blue – 10031 – went onto the FTC State Competition held at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan. While the team performed well, they didn’t advance to Super Regionals.
We are very proud of our three FTC teams this year.
Wendy Ljungren - Co-Coach, GE Aviation Systems, Chief Consulting Engineer
Adam Veendaal -Co-Coach, GE Aviation Systems, Engineer / Technologist
Dennis Behrens - Mentor, GE Aviation Systems, UNIX System Administrator
On Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm in the East Kentwood High School West Cafeteria (near our build space) we will be hosting a banquet to celebrate the accomplishments of the three Red Storm FTC Teams (5292, 6482 and 10031)
Team Members, Family and Mentors of all of the teams are invited.
Peppino’s Pasta and Salad will be provided. Please bring a dessert, appetizer and/or pop to share with others.
This weekend our very own Red Storm Blue will be attending the FIRST in Michigan State Championship. This is the first year that 10031 has attended state!
The team has been working hard on polishing their robot driving, strategy and engineering notebook.
Please come and cheer Red Storm on!
This past weekend at the Kentwood FTC Qualifier the Red Storm FTC Teams did quite well.
Red Storm Red won the Control Award!
And Red Storm White was nominated for several awards:
This is the first time that any Red Storm FTC Team or Red Storm FRC Team had placed for the top award (FTC – Inspire, FRC – Chairman’s). We are very proud of our three FTC teams this year, as each had won various awards. We wish the Red Storm Blue team the best of luck at the State Competition this coming weekend at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The final placement for the various teams in qualification play were:
