by Rebecca Berggren | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Hueneme
Congratulations to the 36 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the Hueneme Port FIRST Robotics Regional Competition from March 3-6, 2022.
LIST OF TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!!!
The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the Hueneme Port Regional and earned their way to compete at the FIRST Championships in Houston, April 20-23, 2022
Regional Chairman’s
The Chairman’s Award represents the true spirit of FIRST. It honors the team that best serves as a model for other teams to emulate and that embodies the goals of FIRST. It remains FIRST’s most prestigious team award. The Chairman’s Award is presented to the team judged to have the most significant measurable impact of its partnerships among its participants, school, and community over a sustained period, not just a single build season or school year. The winner is able to demonstrate progress towards FIRST’s mission of transforming our culture. The recipient will be invited to the FIRST Championship where it will compete for the Chairman’s Award against the winners from all the other qualifying events.
- Team 4400, Cerbotics from Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
Engineering Inspiration
The Engineering Inspiration Award celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community. This team will advance to the Championships and receive a $5000 NASA grant toward registration.
- Team 3374, Robobroncs from Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Regional Winners
Dean’s List Finalist
In an effort to recognize the leadership and dedication of FIRST’s most outstanding FRC students, the Kamen family sponsors an award for selected top students known as the FIRST Dean’s List. This award celebrates a student’s outstanding leadership and effectiveness in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as their community. FIRST Dean’s List Finalists will compete at the championship for the FIRST Dean’s List.
- Justine Ludden from Team 1452
- Roux Lake from Team 5199
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
- Stuart Lee from Team 5199
Additional Awards
Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the Hueneme Port Regional! See the list here.
Support
An immense THANK YOU to all the sponsors, mentors and volunteers who contributed to this very successful Regional.
We hope you too had a memorable experience at the Hueneme Port Regional Regional!
by Rebecca Berggren | Mar 9, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
by Rebecca Berggren | Mar 9, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2022, a virtual Pre-Regional rally was held for FIRST students planning to attend the San Diego Regional.
It featured an inspiring conversion with Amy Kaur, the co-founder of EngineeringGals, Civil Engineer and model. She discussed the importance of community and being unapologetic in paving our own path.
Watch below video for Amy’s presentation.
Students also had a chance to connect with each other and alumna in small breakout groups so that they had a chance to get to know each other before the upcoming Regional.
To encourage girls to connect with their peers and women engineers in the SWE community, Madalyn Nguyen (FIRST Dean’s List Winner 2020) shared about SWE and the benefits of a SWENext Club.
To add more excitement to the event, there were raffle prizes from UCSD School of Engineering, Maketory, Midway Museum and SWE.
Resources:
Engineering Gals
SWENext
by Rebecca Berggren | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog
Let’s connect!
Below is a list of the offical FIRST social media properties and hashtags across programs through the different regions in California.
We encourage you to use and follow FIRST hashtags so that we can all more easily connect with each other.
FIRST California: #FIRSTinCA, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
FIRST: #firstinspires #omgrobots #stemsquad, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
FIRST Robotics Competition – #InfiniteRecharge
Aerospace Valley Regional: #avregional, Facebook
Central Valley Regional: #cvrobotics, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Del Mar FRC Regional: #FIRSTsd, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Los Angeles Regional: #FIRSTla, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Los Angeles North Regional: #FIRSTlan, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Monterey Bay Regional: #FIRSTmontereybay, Instagram, Facebook
Orange County Regional: #FIRSToc, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Sacramento Regional: #FIRSTsac, Facebook
San Diego Regional: #FIRSTsd, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
San Francisco: #sfregional, Instagram, Facebook
Silicon Valley: #FIRSTsv, Instagram, Facebook
Ventura: #FIRSTventura
FIRST Tech Challenge – #skystone
Central Valley: #cvrobotics, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
NorCal: Facebook, Twitter,
San Diego: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
SoCal / Los Angeles: Instagram, Facebook
FIRST LEGO League – #cityshaper
Central Valley: #cvrobotics, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
NorCal – Facebook, Twitter
SoCal – Instagram, Facebook
Hashtag Example:
If you were posting about the Los Angeles Regional, you might use #firstinspires #omgrobots #InfiniteRecharge #FIRSTinCA #FIRSTla and any other hashtags that apply.
by Rebecca Berggren | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog
“Your success marks a historic moment for California robotics teams and is a testament to the growth of science and technology within our state.” – GAVIN NEWSOM
7 California FIRST teams were honored by Governor Gavin Newsom at the State Capitol on Wednesday for their FIRST Championship accomplishments!
Teams included the all-California winning FRC alliance (FRC Team 973: Greybots, MadTown Robotics – FRC Team 1323, Burlingame Robotics, FRC Team 4201, The Vitruvian Bots ), Finalists Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs and Subdivision Winners FRC Team 1678: Citrus Circuits and Team 971: Spartan Robotics.
Governor Newsom and Assembly Members Frank Bigelow, Marc Berman, Cecilia Aguilar-Curry, Kevin Mullins plus other members of our state government came out to personally congratulate teams, watch demos and talk to team members.
The media was out in full force to capture this important moment.
FIRST teams makin’ history and makin’ it loud!
by Rebecca Berggren | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog
We are so proud of all 116 FIRST teams from California who brought their “A” game to compete, collaborate, have fun and make memories with the other 15,000 students from around the world! To capture the energy and spirit of the event in words seems impossible, so we’re sharing videos that give a glimpse of what our California teams experienced.
FIRST Impact
We hear these words over and over again – “FIRST is life-changing”
And we ourselves tell our sponsors, friends and family about how far-reaching the impact of FIRST is. But me…telling you…about it, doesn’t really have the same effect as if you hear it from the students themselves.
So, during FIRST Championship in Houston , we ran around to our California teams to ask them how FIRST has impacted their life.
This is what they had to say. ♡
AWARDS!
Congratulations to the following California teams, students and volunteers who are bringing home a huge amount of impressive awards.
⭐️ Volunteer of the Year Award – Jill Wilker from Fremont
⭐️ Dean’s List Winners – Jacob Rodriguez, FRC Team 4322 – Clockwork Oranges – Crew 1701 from Orange County; Divya Satrawada, Monta Vista F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Team 115 from Cupertino; Emily Miner NANO NERDSf rom Folson
☆☆☆ FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION ☆☆☆
⭐️All California Winning Alliance!!! FRC Team 973: Greybots from Atascadero; MadTown Robotics – FRC Team 1323 from Madera; Burlingame Robotics from Burlingame; FRC Team 4201, the Vitruvian Botsfrom El Segundo
⭐️Finalists: Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs
⭐️Subdivision Winners: Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs from San Jose; FRC Team 1678: Citrus Circuits from Davis; Team 971: Spartan Robotics from Mountain View; FRC Team 973: Greybots from Atascadero; Team 1323, MadTown Robotics from Madera; Burlingame Robotics from Burlingame; FRC Team 4201, The Vitruvian Bots from El Segundo, Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs from San Jose
⭐️Entrepreneurship Award: FRC Team 1678: Citrus Circuits from Davis
⭐️Excellence in Engineering Award: FRC Team 846 – The Funky Monkeys from San Jose; Team 971: Spartan Robotics from Mountain View
⭐️Gracious Professionalism® Award: EagleForce2073 from Elk Grove; Ellipse 6814 from Santa Rosa
⭐️Imagery Award: Team 1622, Team Spyder from San Diego
⭐️Industrial Design Award: MadTown Robotics – FRC Team 1323 from Madera; Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs from San Jose
⭐️Safety Award: Team 3250, Kennedy Robotics from Sacramento
⭐️ Quality Award: Team 3476: Code Orange from Irvine
⭐️ Highest Rookie Seed: Team 7887, Final FRONTIER from Camarillo
☆☆☆ FIRST TECH CHALLENGE ☆☆☆
⭐️ Motivate Award: Marlbots FTC 3526 from Los Angeles
⭐️Control Award: FTC 8404 Quixilver from San Jose
☆☆☆ FIRST LEGO LEAGUE JR ☆☆☆
⭐️Design and Show Award: Team 21, Castronauts from Santa Clara
⭐️Innovative Explorers Award: Team 50, Weibel Starfleet from Fremont
⭐️Innovative Model Award: Team 18, Robotic RECK Rovers from Campbell
⭐️ Creative Model Award: Team 22, Builder Beavers from San Diego
⭐️ Cooperative Model Award: Team 19, Robo Wildcats from Los Angeles
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Many many thanks to all the mentors, volunteers, sponsors and parents who helped make this all possible! With extra special thanks to the 2019 FIRST Championship Presenting Sponsor Qualcomm who continues to fully embrace the FIRST community with open arms and great generosity.
