Seattle Regional Update
Posted by Ichigo Takikawa
The Microsoft Seattle Regional, held at the Key Arena in Seattle, is now over! This regional was also the last regional for our seniors, and the picture above features all of the leaving seniors of the team. All of the seniors gave a speech at the team dinner and told us of their future goals.
Thanks to everyone who came to the regionals and supported our team! We hope you enjoyed it and we hope that you will come again next year!
At this regional, we did not make the top 8 seeded teams, but we were picked by an alliance and made it to the quarter finals, where we disappointingly lost 2-1 in best of three matches. To see more detail about our matches, go here.
Our team, however, received the first award since 2006! We were awarded the Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award.
The Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature. This award recognizes any aspect of engineering elegance including, but not limited to: design, wiring methods, material selection, programming techniques, and unique machine attributes. The criteria for this award are based on the team's ability to concisely verbally describe, as well as demonstrate, this chosen machine feature. Our geneva drive was noticed and recognized for this award.
Even though the regionals are over, we will continue to meet off-season and accomplish many tasks, such as building prototypes and recruiting new members. Tomorrow we will attend the club fair at the 8th grade open house of CV to encourage incoming freshman to join our team.