Devils Win Engineering Inspiration at the GT Regional

Team 1334 was honoured to receive the FIRST Engineering Inspiration Award on April 3rd at the Greater Toronto Area Regional for our exceptional work in spreading interest in the field of science and technology to our school and community. The winner of this award earns a spot in the World Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, and we will be competing with some of the best FIRST FRC teams from around the globe on April 15-17, 2010. We are busy finalizing travel plans and finishing technical details, and we look forward to this great experience for our second season in a row! Thanks to the hard work of our mechanical and drive teams, our robot competed successfully in the Greater Toronto Regional. We advanced through the ranks of fifty two teams in the qualifying rounds to be appointed one of eight alliance captains and chose our partners for participation in the final rounds. 

Thanks to all the support from our sponsors, parents and mentors, and congratulations to all other FIRST FRC teams for their success this season.

Team 1334 at the 2010 Waterloo Regional

Team 1334 was honoured with the Gracious Professionalism Award for strong execution of the ideals of FIRST through our outreach work and team spirit at the Waterloo Regional where we competed this past Thursday through Saturday. In addition, one of our team members, Evelyn Wainewright, was honoured with the Dean's List Finalist Award. This is a new award that is given to only two outstanding students competing at each Regional.

The competition field was fierce, and unfortunately, due to intermittent robot problems throughout the tournament, we did not progress into the elimination rounds this time. We were able to fix several issues in between matches and measures are being taken to ensure that we are fully operational for the Greater Toronto Regional next week.

The FRC team we helped to start this year, the Tronic Titans aka “The Devil Spawn”, from Holy Trinity Catholic School (team 3161), did exceptionally well. They qualified as an alliance captain and formed a strong alliance with 610 and 1535. They were also honoured with the Rookie All-Star Award that earned them a place at the World Championships in Atlanta, Georgia!

Our next competition is at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga on April 1st through 3rd (9-4) where we aim to win a spot in Atlanta. We hope you can come out to cheer us on!