2022 FLL Championship & Explore Festival – California Central

2022 FLL Championship & Explore Festival – California Central

by | Jan 23, 2023 | FLL - Central, Uncategorized

On December 17, 2022, Central Valley Robotics wrapped up its first full season since the start of the pandemic with the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Regional Championship and FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival.

Central Valley Robotics would like to thank the wonderful volunteers who make events possible for our teams, especially FRC Teams 1671 (Buchanan Bird Brains), 3970 (Duncan Dynamics), and 5817 (Uni-Rex) and FTC Teams 14323 (Half-Wit Hatchlings) and 17094 (E.G.G.).

 

FIRST LEGO League Challenge Championship 

 Clovis, CA

The top 24 teams from three qualifying events (Buchanan Battle at the Nest Qualifier, Central Unified Qualifier, and Duncan Dynamics Qualifier) competed for a chance to represent Central California at one of 4 post-season events.  

1st Place Champions

LEGO WOLVES from Wonderful College Prep Academy in Delano

Advancing to World Festival in Houston in April 2023

2nd Place Champions

Wildcate Coders from Castle Rock Elementary School in Woodlake

Advancing to Inaugural WPI Open Invitational in Massachusetts in June 2023

3rd Place Champions

6.0 GPA (Girl Powered Automations) from Bud Rank Elementary in Clovis

Advancing to Western Edge Invitational in Long Beach in May 2023

Additionally, Team “dun dun dunnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!! (you have to sing it)” from Riverview Elementary in Fresno will represent the region at the Razorback Open Invitational in Arkansas in May 2023.  

LEGO WOLVES

Wildcat Coders

1st Place Core Values

dun dun dunnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!! (you have to sing it) from Riverview Elementary School in Fresno

1st Place Innovation Project

Powerful Panthers from Dry Creek Elementary School in Clovis

1st Place Robot Performance

Mega Metal Crushers from Riverview Elementary School in Fresno

1st Place Robot Design

Mech Tech Marlins from Fugman Elementary School in Fresno

Coach/Mentor Award WINNER

Jenifer Strait with 6.0 GPA (Girl Powered Automations) in Clovis

Volunteer Award

Dimple Ravuri from Clovis

Volunteer Award

Ken Kirk from Clovis

Robot Matches 

FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival

 Clovis, CA

The FIRST LEGO League Explore Festival was held in conjunction to the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Regional Championship and included 13 teams from around the Central Valley.  Congratulations to all teams that participated!

 

COVID-19 Updates – 2022-2023 Season

by | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized

We are continuing to monitor local public health conditions and are developing plans on how to best support FIRST events across all programs for the 2022 – 2023 Season. This includes the ability to implement modifications such as the use of masks, health screening, event scaling, social distancing, event formatting, and other precautions as determined by local conditions and regulations.

For the latest information about FIRST events in your region in California, contact your local Program Delivery Partner.

Providing opportunities for hands-on learning and recognizing our teams’ incredible accomplishments are key elements to the lasting impact of FIRST. We remain committed to deliver our programs to as many students as possible, as safely as possible.

We thank you for your continued support for our mission as we navigate the season together!

San Diego FTC Wrap-Up – 2021/2022

San Diego FTC Wrap-Up – 2021/2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Uncategorized

To All San Diego FTC teams – congratulations on a successful FREIGHT FRENZY season!

With all of the challenges that everyone has faced over that past 2 years, you should ALL be proud of what you did to even get to the point of competing! Great job!

And this wouldn’t have been possible without the help of your coaches, mentors, all of the region hosts, volunteers, parents, siblings and teammates. One big collective group thank you to all of you!

Congratulations not only to our advancing teams, but our Dean’s List finalists, Award winners and Qualcomm and RISE Scholarship recipients!

Regional Advancements to World Championship

Inspire Award WInner

Team 16684 – Mechanical Advantage

Winning Alliance Captain

Team 11212 – The Clueless

Dean's List Finalists

Rohan Bosworth
Team 16884 – Mechanical Advantage

Maya Krolik
Team 14564 – Fast and Curious

Naythan Chan
Team 15146 – GarageBot

World Championship Award Winners

On Finalist Alliance

Team 11212 – The Clueless

Motivate Award Winner

Team 16884 – Mechanical Advantage

Inspire Award Finalist

Team 11212 – The Clueless

Dean's List Winner

Rohan Bosworth
Team 16884 – Mechanical Advantage

SWEet! – Women in STEM event

SWEet! – Women in STEM event

by | Mar 9, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized

On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2022, FIRST California and SWE Orange County joined forces to share stories about how being a SWE member could help you reach your full potential along your STEM journey.

Attendees heard from a current FIRST student and FIRST alumnae who are SWE members – each at a different phase in their STEM journey: high school, college, and professional. They shared their engineering journeys, how they got involved with SWE and valuable resources like scholarship opportunities.

From high school to engineering professional, SWE has the resources for you!

Resources from the event:

Apply for SWE Scholarship – Orange County

Apply for SWE Scholarship – Global

 Join or Start a SWEnext Section

 SWE OC LinkedIn

SWE OC Instagram – @sweoc

 SWE UCI socials

Women in STEM Pre-Regional Rally

Women in STEM Pre-Regional Rally

by | 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 

Full Speed Ahead with RAPID REACT

Full Speed Ahead with RAPID REACT

by | Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorized

A week ago the details of this season’s game, RAPID REACT, were revealed and our FIRST Robotics Competition teams in California are wasting no time in getting their robot built!

Teams have been challenged to build robots to deliver their payloads and collect cargo balls for delivery, receiving assistance from human players at the terminal.  For more details, take a look at the game animation video.

Upcoming FIRST Robotics Competition Regional events in California:

A quick glance at Instagram will show you teams are busy planning, prototyping and having FUN!  Be sure to tag us at @firstroboticscalifornia and use hashtag #FIRSTinCA so that we don’t miss your posts!

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