The Devils do it Again!

FIRST Team 1334 competed at the Waterloo Regional, where we qualified for the World Championships in St. Louis for the 3^rd year in a row! We also competed at the Greater Toronto Regional West competition. The Greater Toronto Regional was split into 2 regionals this year - West and East – with the action alternating between the playing areas. The Discovery channel, a leading sponsor of FIRST, broadcast both Regionals live.

It’s been a record year for us so far and we’ve won a number of awards, including:

Greater Toronto West Regional results:

Creativity in Design Award sponsored by Xerox for our mini-bot and deployment system

Regional Finalist Award for finishing second in game play; we placed second to the reigning World Champion team who also holds the world record for most consecutive Regional wins – now 11

Honourable Mention in the Safety category for the first time in the team’s history we were recognized for our Safety initiatives

Nicholas Bandiera, our Captain’s Advisor and last year’s Team Captain, was selected as a Dean’s List Finalist! This award is given to only 2 students at each Regional competition. Nicholas is an outstanding role model for FIRST and will go on to compete in St. Louis for one of 10 coveted spots on The Dean’s List with roughly 100 other students selected from the 20,000 who compete in FIRST Robotics Competition worldwide. FIRST Team 1334 is now one of only 2 teams in Canada to have had 2 students selected as Dean’s List Finalists. We couldn’t be more proud of Nicholas.

Waterloo Regional results:

• Engineering Inspiration Award qualifying the team to compete at the World Championships in St. Louis

One of our founding mentors, Mr. George Chisholm, was honoured with a Regional Woodie Flowers Award and will compete for the Championship Woodie Flowers Award in St. Louis. Mr. Chisholm is the first mentor from our team to be honoured with a Woodie Flowers Award and we were thrilled to see him recognized in this way!

As we said above, it’s been a record-breaking year so far for FIRST Team 1334 out of Oakville Trafalgar High School and we leave for St. Louis anticipating a great performance.

Thank you to all of our sponsors, mentors and volunteers for your support, we couldn’t have gotten this far without you.