Los Angeles Regional – 2022

Los Angeles Regional – 2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Los Angeles

rCongratulations to the 42 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the Los Angeles FIRST Robotics Regional Competition from March 31 – April 3, 2022.

TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!

The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the Los Angeles Regional and earned their way to compete at the FIRST Championships in Houston, April 20-23, 2022.

See your team in action at the event’s photo gallery.

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.

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 2637, Phantom Catz from Rolling Hills Estates, CA

Regional Winners

  • Team 696, Circuit Breakers from La Crescenta, CA
  • Team 3476, Code Orange from Irvine, CA
  • Team 599, The Robodox from Granada Hills, CA (wildcard)

Rookie All Star

  • Team 8898, Royal Rebels Engineering from Fullerton, CA (wildcard)

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.

  • Regan Song from Team 3473
  • Yogini Vazirani from Team 980

Woodie Flowers

  • Joy Uehara from Team 4201

Additional Awards

Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles Regional!

Sacramento Regional – 2022

Sacramento Regional – 2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Blog, sacramento

Congratulations to the 44 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the Sacramento FIRST Robotics Regional Competition from March 23-26, 2022.

TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!

The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the Sacramento 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.

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 8033, Highlander Robotics from Piedmont, CA

Regional Winners

  • Team 254, Cheesy Poofs from San Jose, CA
  • Team 1678, Citrus Circuits from Davis, CA
  • Team 5458, Digital Minds from Woodland, CA (wildcard)

Regional Finalists

  • Team 973, Greybots from Atascadero, CA (wilcard)
  • Team 7157, μBotics from Brea, CA (wildcard)

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.

  • Emily Xia from Team 1678
  • Peter Choi from Team 4904

Woodie Flowers

  • Duane Murphy from Team 701

Additional Awards

Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the Sacramento 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 Sacramento Regional!

San Francisco Regional – 2022

San Francisco Regional – 2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Blog, San Francisco

Congratulations to the 41 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the San Francisco FIRST Robotics Regional Competition from March 17-20, 2022.

TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!

The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the San Francisco 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.

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 8159, Goldern Horn from Istanbul, Turkey 

Regional Winners

  • Team 604, Quixilver from San Jose, CA
  • Team 846, The Funky Monkeys from San Jose, CA

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.

  • Druthi Palle from Team 649
  • Bruno Zomignani Perciani from Team 7563

Woodie Flowers

  • Rafael Capovila from Team 7563

Additional Awards

Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the San Francisco 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 San Francisco Regional!

San Diego Regional presented by Qualcomm – 2022

San Diego Regional presented by Qualcomm – 2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Blog, San Diego

Congratulations to the 54 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the San Diego FIRST Robotics Regional Competition presented by Qualcomm from March 17-20, 2022.

In addition to the excitement of of competition and being back together again in person, we also enjoyed these added highlights during the event:

  • Rashmi Tripathi, Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, announced the $10,000 Qualcomm Innovations grant.
  • “San Diego County STEAM Robotics Observance Day” proclamation was presented by Mario Nakawatse, Community Outreach Coordinator for SD Supervisor Joel Anderson.
  • The San Diego Society of Women Engineers president, Kelly Kloster Hon, met with students to share STEM opportunities.

You can find photos from the event here. A big THANK YOU to Tom Lafleur for capturing these great moments! 

Plus – you can find many more memories captured on Instagram at @sdfirstrobotics and in our highlights tab from the event.

TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!

The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the San Diego 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.

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.

Regional Winners

  • Team 6560, Charging Champions from Irvine, CA
  • Team 3128, Aluminum Narwhals from San Diego, CA

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.

  • Audrey Crockett from Team 2485
  • Shreya Goel from Team 3128

Woodie Flowers

  • Sarah Rodriguez from 1622

Additional Awards

Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the San Diego 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 San Diego Regional!

Orange County Regional – 2022

Orange County Regional – 2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Orange County

Congratulations to the 47 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the Orange County FIRST Robotics Regional Competition from March 9-12, 2022.

See your team in action at the event’s photo gallery. 

 

TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!

The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the Orange County 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 4201, The Vitruvian Bots from El Segundo, CA

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 1868, Space Cookies from Mountain View, CA

Regional Winners

  • Team 3476, Code Orange from Irvine, CA
  • Team 987, HIGHROLLERS from Las Vegas, NV
  • Team 3952, Troy Robotics from Fullerton, CA (wildcard)

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.

  • Jonathan Liu from Team 3476
  • Luke Saikley from Team 4201

Additional Awards

Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the Orange County 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 Orange County Regional!

Ventura County Regional – 2022

Ventura County Regional – 2022

by | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Ventura

Congratulations to the 44 Teams PLUS all the Mentors, Volunteers, Sponsors, Friends and Family members who participated in the Ventura County FIRST Robotics Regional Competition from March 9-12, 2022.

TEAMS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HOUSTON!

The following teams and individuals earned top honors at the Ventura County 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 359, Hawaiian Kids from Waialua, HI

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.

Regional Winners

Regional Finalists

  • Team 2135, Presentation Invasion from San Jose (wildcard)
  • Team 3512, Spartatroniks from Orcutt (wildcard)

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.

  • Mason Kramer from Team 2637
  • Sara Milesi from Team 3925

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award

  • Lori Kahn from Team 2813

Additional Awards

Congratulations to the Teams and individuals that earned the remaining awards at the Venura County 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 Ventura County Regional!

Hueneme Port Regional – 2022

Hueneme Port Regional – 2022

by | 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!

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 

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