WHS will be presenting their Chairman’s award presentation at the next two regionals. The team also creates a short video showcasing their robot and how FIRST has impacted their lives. The team writes a 10,000 character essay outlying their participation in outreach, their business plan, sponsors, mentors, coach and basic structure of their team. The team can also qualify by winning the Chairman’s Award, which is an impressive title given to a team dedicated to outreach, in that they will spread the message of FIRST, and promote the relevancy and basic fun involved in robotics, science and technology. Though Team Appreciate failed to qualify for World Championships at the Alamo Regional, the team will travel to Lubbock and Louisiana coveting the illusive first-place medal and trip to St. The final score eventually came from close referee calls due to safety penalties and arena malfunctions. The final match came down to the RoboNauts, Cryptonite and the Falcons versus the Chap alliance in an infinitely close few matches. Team Appreciate, allied with Tex-Splosion, and the two time World Champions RoboWranglers faced off against the top eight alliances in a best-two-of-three situation. The final rounds flew by in a haste of robot-fixes and exasperating matches. It felt like the final quarter of the Super Bowl, but instead of rooting for our favorite team, we’re so personally invested that we couldn’t bare sit down for hours, for fear of missing one moment of what was happening. Though every match is much more exciting than a newbie to the robotics world like me could possibly imagine, finals was indeed a league of its own. Teams definitely appreciated the help, and many approached the Chap Robotics pit to personally thank them. The team, Tex-splosion ended up allying with WHS in the final round finishing second overall. One team lovingly named a part of their robot after the Chap that was helping them to succeed to the best of their ability.
At any given time of the eight-hour day, one could find a WHS student in another team’s pit offering any assistance that they could, from programming to building new parts. However, the spirit of FIRST was exemplified within Team Appreciate in more ways than just their robot. Each team is provided a workspace at the contest called a “pit,” These spaces are used for fixing, or finishing robots as well as showcasing to judges the hard work and determination that was incorporated into every circuit, wire and design that the robot holds. But more than just the awards, the Chap Robotics Team left a legacy at the Alamo Regional by helping countless teams perfect their robots on sight. The robot did Rex proud last weekend ranking high in the leaderboards, and achieving other trophies and medals as well. Team Appreciate’s robot is named this year for RexStrong, a charity supporting a Westlake area child with stage four cancer.
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The contest is organized into a series of matches that funnel into a double elimination tournament for a final alliance winner. Teams are grouped into alliances of three robots that combine their engineered skills to perform to the best of their ability. It requires robots to be able to maneuver around an arena, while shooting large balls into goals, or over trusses. The FRC challenge this season is called Arial Assist.
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