{"id":56404,"date":"2014-10-01T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=56404"},"modified":"2014-10-03T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T23:27:41","slug":"tpaa-robotics-team-finalists-in-fall-classic-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/10\/01\/tpaa-robotics-team-finalists-in-fall-classic-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"TPAA robotics team finalists in Fall Classic tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A team of approximately 20 students, including engineering, marketing, drive, and design specialists from The Academy, attended the competition Sept. 27-28 at Valencia High School in Placentia. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Gryffingear Robotics Team successfully represented The Palmdale Aerospace Academy with two robots reaching the final rounds at the Southern California Regional Robotics Forum\u2019s annual off-season FIRST\u00ae Robotics Competition this past weekend.<\/p>\n

A team of approximately 20 students, including engineering, marketing, drive, and design specialists from The Academy, attended the competition in Placentia. The two day-long events presented a demanding engineering challenge for Gryffingear, which was one of only four teams to register two robots in the competition. The two robots were Golden Snitch<\/em>, which made it all the way to World Championships last year, and Basilisk,<\/em> a robot re-build challenge that students completed over the summer.<\/p>\n

\"TPAA<\/a>In Saturday\u2019s competition, Basilisk<\/em> finished the qualifying rounds with a 2-4 record, while Golden Snitch,<\/em> the team\u2019s main robot, finished with a 5-1 record, ranking in fourth place.<\/p>\n

At the end of qualification matches, the competition\u2019s “Alliance Selection” allowed the top four, including Golden Snitch,<\/em> to select two other robots to join them through a single elimination playoff, one of which was their other robot, Basilisk<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to show our best gracious professionalism and competitive spirit and make The Palmdale Aerospace Academy proud, and I think we did,\u201d said Brian Martin, Robotics Advisor at The Palmdale Aerospace Academy.<\/p>\n

Golden Snitch<\/em> improved to rank second in Sunday\u2019s qualification rounds, again allowing the team to choose Basilisk<\/em> and another team, to move on into the playoffs.\u00a0 Saturday, Sept. 27, the teams ended their run in the semi-finals, and Sunday in the finals. They ultimately lost\u00a0to some tough veteran teams and\u00a0were\u00a0awarded \u201c2014 Fall Classic Finalists\u201d<\/em> plaques.<\/p>\n

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Previous related story<\/span>: Palmdale Aerospace Academy prepares bots for battle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gryffingear Robotics Team successfully represented The Palmdale Aerospace Academy with two robots reaching the final rounds at the Southern California Regional Robotics Forum\u2019s annual off-season FIRST\u00ae Robotics Competition this past weekend. A team of approximately 20 students, including engineering, marketing, drive, and design specialists from The Academy, attended the competition in Placentia. The two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}