{"id":70274,"date":"2016-03-04T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=70274"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T00:07:24","slug":"local-robotics-teams-finish-competition-season-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/03\/04\/local-robotics-teams-finish-competition-season-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Local robotics teams finish competition season strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_70275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70275\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70275\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/TPAA-FTC-team-2.jpg\" alt=\"Members of Team 8714 controlling the robot during competition. [contributed]\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Team 8714 controlling the robot during competition. [contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PALMDALE \u2013 Several of The Palmdale Aerospace Academy\u2019s First Tech Challenge robotics teams competed recently in the Robotics Regional Championship in Monrovia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three teams from the Academy competed &#8212; Secret Team (8396), Torchbots (9777) and Alloymantulas (8714). Alloymantulas ended qualifying matches in sixth place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The closing ceremonies included the Secret Team winning second place for the Promote Award, and Alloymantulas won third for the Think Award. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Diana Cruz<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Priscilla Diaz, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two members of the Secret Team, were semifinalists on the FIRST Dean\u2019s List for demonstrating leadership and dedication to FIRST. They were nominated by their mentor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The competition, RES-Q, was modeled after mountain rescue missions and played by two alliances of two robots each. Robots scored points by resetting rescue beacons, delivering rescue climbers to a shelter, parking on the mountain,and parking in the rescue beacon repair zone or floor goal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese middle school students were competing against high school students who had a few more years of practice with robotics and building, and were at the same level of competition,\u201d stated robotics advisor Sandramarie Delestre. \u201cTheir hard work and dedication this season has paid off.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about the competition, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstinspires.org\/robotics\/ftc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.firstinspires.org\/robotics\/ftc<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 Several of The Palmdale Aerospace Academy\u2019s First Tech Challenge robotics teams competed recently in the Robotics Regional Championship in Monrovia. Three teams from the Academy competed &#8212; Secret Team (8396), Torchbots (9777) and Alloymantulas (8714). Alloymantulas ended qualifying matches in sixth place. The closing ceremonies included the Secret Team winning second place for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[29,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70274"}],"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=70274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}