CCTS ROBOTICS - AWARD WINNERS!!!!!

TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY!!! Today, we were declared the winners of the Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories! This award "celebrates the team that progresses beyond safety fundamentals by using innovative ways to eliminate or protect against hazzards." We had a great effort by our whole team on this front, but the safety program has been led over the last three years by our safety captain, Alex! He does a great job. We had a great competition, now for some of us off to St. Louis for the National Championships to be very competitive again. Our award winning safety captain! Our Team with the Safety Judges who recognized our safety program with this high honor!

Philly Regionals - Day 2 - First Day of Competition

Had a challenging but rewarding day...worked hard all day in getting our arm to work properly after yesterday's inspection issues. However had a good day working with our partners, scouting and being competitive with the judge's awards! Our safety program is going very well under the leadership of our Safety Captain Alex!

Our Drive Team running "Rocky" around the arena.

Adjusting the Robotic Gripper.

Rocky representing our school with pride! Our drive team waiting with Rocky for the next match.

Thanking our sponsor's Campbell's Soup!

Getting Rocky ready for the next match!

Planning our scouting strategy.

Reviewing Rocky's program.

All hand's on deck in our pit!

The pit area at Temple!

DAY 1 Philly Regional

Today was our first day at the Philadelphia Regional Robotics Competition at Temple University. We had some difficulties with the inspection of our robot, but despite a setback with the approval of our robot's arm motor, we managed to get in a practice match. We will continue to work to make our new motor work, but we still have a few bugs to work out. Tomorrow is the opening day of official competition, so we hope to have a good day. We are working very hard to be competitive for the many judged awards that we are competitive with. We are especially competitive this year for the imagery award, as well as the safety award...

Check out some pics from today's competition....

Working to get "Rocky" ready to go into action!

Working on our arm motor retrofit!

Discussing and coming up with options for our Arm Bracket.

Displaying our proud history as a team!

Working on Rocky in our pit area.