Local Robotics Team Qualifies for the World Championship Event

TechBrick’s “Absolute Zero Electricity” Receives the Engineering Inspiration Award

April 11-13 a Harford County robotics team, TechBrick’s “Absolute Zero Electricity,” joined 62 other teams from the region and the country to compete in the Chesapeake Regional FRC Tournament this past weekend. FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) brings together teams of high-school age young engineers to solve complex challenges through robotics and management of what is a working small business. With a team membership of 28 TechBrick has students focused on programming, drive base, media and communications, Frisbee shooter, and more.

All the work comes together in the regional tournaments. There are more than 80 tournaments all over the US and one in Israel. TechBrick’s team competed in the DC Regional two weeks ago, came back to make many refinements and then competed aggressively in Baltimore with a ranking of between 4 and 17 throughout the day.

At the end of the day the team was awarded the second highest regional award, the “Engineering Inspiration Award,” which recognizes a team for the overall program that includes a great robot, outreach, training, and more.

This award is the culmination of more than 9 years of robotics programs that has grown to more than 80 students per season and draws from eight schools and three homeschool co-ops. The team has mentors from a number of local schools and corporations.

An invitation to worlds gives a team to chance to compete with 400 other FRC teams from all over the world in a drive to be named the “World Champion.” More than 10,000 students will navigate their robots to score with this year’s challenge that involves capturing and shooting Frisbees and climbing a 14-foot pyramid at the end. The action is intense.

See more details here:
http://www.techbrick.com/Lego/Lego2012/Events/events20130415
http://frc3941.techbrick.com/

TechBrick has many generous sponsors including SURVICE Engineering, TiePoint, Army Research Labs, NDEP, DEWALT, and Roberts Oxygen along with many individual sponsors.

They are calling on the local business community for additional support to make the trip to worlds. If you or your corporation is interested in investing of our future engineering talent please contact Marco Ciavolino at marco@techbrick.com.

Contact:
Marco Ciavolino
TechBrick Robotics
1603 Belvue Drive
Forest Hill, MD 21050
http://www.techbrick.com