IP: Robotics Competition

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:12:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: Gerald A Ballman <ballman () nadn navy mil>
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> To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Robotics Competition
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> The robot discussed below was built in the U.S. Naval Academy Electrical
> and Mechanical Engineering labs with minimal faculty support.  These young
> Americans deserve hearty congratulations for a job well done.
>
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> Subject: NAVY ENGINEERING SHINES AT ROBOTICS COMPETITION
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>      The USNA/Severn School/Broadneck HS  team competing in the 2000 US
>  FIRST Robotics Regional Competition in Philadelphia this past weekend
>  was recognized for their outstanding engineering of their robot, "Das
>  Goat".  The team was awarded the prestigious Motorola Quality Award by
>  the judges for "...the team displaying the most robust design, that is,
>  the project that best exhibits the relationship between quality of
>  design, quality of construction and quality of performance."  USNA's
>  entry stood out in the judges opinion, besting the entries of 40 other
>  teams from DaimlerChrysler, Delphi Automotive, Lockheed Martin, NASA and
>  DuPont and other high tech engineering organizations
>  .
>      In the actual competition, Das Goat successfully competed in all of
>  its elimination matches, compiling a 5-5 record but did not make it into
>  the finals.  The next stop for the team is the National Championship at
>  Epcot from April 6-8, 2000.  The Championship will be broadcast live on
>  NASA TV and the over the web.  ESPN will also be documenting the event
>  for broadcast at a later date.
>
>      The USNA team is led by six midshipmen:  1/c Jamie Thurston, 1/c
>  Matthew Miner, 1/c Kale Buonerba and 1/c Josh Hamel from Mechanical
>  Engineering and 1/c Erin Belanger and 1/c Logan Schulze from Electrical
>  Engineering.  They are to be commended for their accomplishment and the
>  honor brought to the USNA as a result of their efforts.
>
>      The FIRST Robotics Competition, in its ninth year, is a national
>  robotics competition whose mission is to encourage high school students
>  to pursue careers in science and technology.  It achieves this mission
>  by having corporations and universities partner with local high schools
>  to design and build a robot to compete against other teams in an
>  exciting competition. FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition
>  of Science and Technology.  You can learn more about FIRST at
>  http://www.usfirst.org