University of South Australia and Rostrevor High School

On Thursday, September 24, a group of students from Rostrevor College visited the Mawson Lakes campus at University of South Australia. Adam and his son, Liam, demonstrated both the 2014 Aerial Ascent and 2015 Recycle Rush robots to the senior computing students. After a discussion about the building process and programming, the students drove the robots, avoided crashing into anything (which was considerably better than what Adam had achieved in the demonstration), and asked enough questions that it seemed almost every conceivable topic was covered.

Special thanks to the university for the opportunity, and the Rostrevor students for being such a great group to demonstrate to.

Ready, Set, Rush!

Teams from Australia and around the world took part in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (FRC) regional event at the Sydney Olympic park sports centre on march 11-14, 2015 project management apps.

Wednesday we unpacked our robot and set it up in out pit area. This is where the robot is worked on and repaired when needed.

Thursday we arrived early to put out robot together and have it inspected ready for our practice matches. We did not pass our first inspection due to electrical issues, a challenge that we overcame.

Friday we arrived early again for the start of the competition. Driving the robot on the field for the first time was exciting and a relief. We designed and built a robot in 6 weeks. and there we were, playing a game called “Recycle Rush”.

Saturday 33 teams from Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, China and Hawaii competed in Recycle Rush. We made it to the quarter finals, where we were chosen by team 5761 (Illawarra) along with 5663 (Rio Tinto Ground Control) but it was unfortunately our last game played at the regional. Congratulations to all teams who competed.

RoboRoos team 4537 were winners of the FIRST® Robotics 2015 Regional Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox.

It was the hardest fun we ever had!

Sydney Comp

The Sydney competition was a funny and interesting event. It was the first FRC competition in Sydney and was at the Sydney Olympics Park Stadium.
It was a great way for people from different countries to see what Australia is. The competition went off really well with the practice rounds, even through we didn’t get our robot out on the field we got to see what the other robots could do.

By the second day we had 4 of our members sing the Australian national anthem. After that we took on the other robots with our robot on the field for the first time and we did really well. Not just that but we had team members walking around talking to other teams and getting an idea what their robots did.

On the third day we came 10th in the qualifiers and 5th in the quarter-finals and we wish to congratulate team 359 Hawaiian kids and their partners 4253 Taipei, TPQ, Taiwan and team 5601 Qingdao Easter Sea Team.

2015 Australian Regional Award Winners

Winners of the FIRST® Robotics 2015 Australia Regional Awards include:

Volunteer of the Year Award: Milorad Cerovac

Team Spirit Award sponsored by FCA Foundation: Team 5584 “I C Robotics”

Imagery Award in honour of Jack Kamen: Team 4802, Blacktown Girls

Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox: Team 4537, the RoboRoos

Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers: Team 3132, Thunder Down Under

Rookie Inspiration Award sponsored by National Instruments: Team 5573, Ivanhoe

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award: Professor Michael Heimlich, Team 3132 Thunder Down Under

Highest Rookie Seed Award: Team 5584, I C Robotics

Quality Award sponsored by Motorola: Team 4253, TAS Robotics

Gracious Professionalism® Award sponsored by Johnson & Johnson:  Team 5731 the Tiny Giants

Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors: Team 5127, Red Hurricane

Judges’ Award:  Team 5648, the Melbourne RoboCats

Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories: Team 3132 Thunder Down Under

Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation: Team 4613 – Barker College 

Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi: Team 359, the Hawaiian Kids

Rookie All-Star Award: Team 5584, I C Robotics

Engineering Inspiration Award: Team 3132, Thunder Down Under

FIRST Dean’s List Finalists: Katherine Allen and Kiatin Williamson, both from Team 3132 Thunder Down Under

Australia Regional FRC Chairman’s Award: Team 3008, the Falcons

Regional Finalists:

Alliance Captain, Team 4613 – Barker College,

and their partners: Team 3132 Thunder Down Under,

and Team 5333 Can’t C# project management process.

Australia Regional Winners

Alliance Captain, Team 359 The Hawaiian Kids,

and their partners: Team 4253 TAS robotics,

and Team 5601 Qingdao Easter Sea Team

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