Hilltopmom Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 If your kids are involved in FTC, how is their team doing so far this year? I stayed home this weekend with my Littles while dh is away with the teen and the team for their second competition of the season. They are very excited- this is their best robot yet and ds is a senior so it’s his last year. He’s head coder and his autonomous is working perfectly (in practice at least). Good luck everyone! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted December 17, 2017 Author Share Posted December 17, 2017 And they won today’s qualifying tournament- their first win ever!!! Advancing to regionals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanetC Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 In our area FTC is only 6th-8th grades, so we are just finishing up, states were this weekend. There is talk of a high school team, so we'll see how that progresses. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCB Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Our team has been to one competition in a neighboring state and they went through to states there. Our competitions in our state are during January. The kids were thrilled with their result but that means we've got to drive 7 hours to compete in the state competition! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 My 8th grade daughter competed last weekend. This is their first year doing FTC, an all rookie team, both members and coach. They did very well considering also that their robot is pretty basic compared to others in the competition. It was a great boost to their confidence. The host team's robot was incredible. You can see what a dedicated paid coach and a generous budget can do! Unfortunately, we are in San Diego and the recent fire impacted the competition. Some schools were unable to host so those events were moved to two locations unaffected by the fires. Even with this accommodation, there were ten teams in our area that could not make it. As a result, right after the rounds were finished, it was announced that the scores would not be used officially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Our team has been to one competition in a neighboring state and they went through to states there. Our competitions in our state are during January. The kids were thrilled with their result but that means we've got to drive 7 hours to compete in the state competition!Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 My 8th grade daughter competed last weekend. This is their first year doing FTC, an all rookie team, both members and coach. They did very well considering also that their robot is pretty basic compared to others in the competition. It was a great boost to their confidence. The host team's robot was incredible. You can see what a dedicated paid coach and a generous budget can do! Unfortunately, we are in San Diego and the recent fire impacted the competition. Some schools were unable to host so those events were moved to two locations unaffected by the fires. Even with this accommodation, there were ten teams in our area that could not make it. As a result, right after the rounds were finished, it was announced that the scores would not be used officially. Wow, a paid coach?! We meet in a very generous 4 H families basement that the team pretty much took over with a small collection of awesome dads to coach. So sorry about the fires impacting everything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Wow, a paid coach?! We meet in a very generous 4 H families basement that the team pretty much took over with a small collection of awesome dads to coach. So sorry about the fires impacting everything. The host team did have a paid coach. They are in an extremely wealthy public school district. It was kind of funny that when we got to the host school, our kids immediately assumed it was a private school. It looked way too fancy to fit the public school look! The coach gets paid by the school educational foundation, which is parent funded. I think there are other private schools where teams are led by teachers and generously funded by the school/parents too. Most teams are parent volunteer led though, like ours, and have much less generous budgets! We don't have basements here, so we have taken over one of our member's garage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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