Novi Middle School FTC Teams compete at States

Novi Robotics (NBot) is proud of our five Novi Middle School FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Teams for their performances at the East Michigan State Championship event held Saturday December 15 at Discovery Middle School in Canton Michigan.

Team 6134, Black Frogs, qualified as one of two teams to represent Michigan at the FIRST World Championship Event to be held in St Louis Missouri April 24-27 2013. At the World Championship event, the Black Frogs will compete with 128 of the best FTC teams from around the world for top robot and team awards. This is the second consecutive year that a Novi team has advanced to the FTC World Championship.
The next opportunity to see the Novi FTC teams in action will be at the FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) season kickoff event hosted by the Novi High School's FRC team Frog Force 503. The FRC kickoff event is January 5th from 8am to 3pm at Novi High School.
5341 Atomic ToadsThink Award FinalistRobot performance Finalist Alliance (2nd place alliance)
18th place qualifier robot performanceSelected for 2nd ranked finals alliance2nd place alliance robot performance

6134 Black Frogs
Rockwell Collins Innovate award FinalistPTC Design Award FinalistThink Award FinalistInspire Award WinnerFTC World Championship qualifier5th place qualifier robot performance
Selected for 1st ranked finals alliance3rd place alliance robot performance

6155 Purple UnicornsThink Award Winner17th place qualifier robot performance Selected for 3rd ranked finals alliance4th place alliance robot performance

6225 Team Terrabyte
3rd place qualifier robot performance
Captain of 3rd ranked finals alliance4th place alliance robot performance

6294 GoRobo-Novi
23rd place qualifier robot performance

At FTC events, robots compete in randomly selected two team alliances during qualifying matches. After qualifying, the top 4 teams pick their alliance partners to compete in best 2 of 3 elimination matches. 

Teams are also interviews by a panel of judges for the Inspire, Think, Connect, Motivate, PTC Design, Rockwell Collins Innovate and Judges awards. These awards recognize outstanding performance in various aspects of the FTC program. The highest FTC award, Inspire, is presented to the team that best represents FTC by their robot performance, community outreach, engineering, and gracious professionalism.

FTC is part of the FIRST family of programs that promotes STEM education from 1st thru 12th grades in the Junior FIRST Lego League (Jr. FLL), FIRST LEGO League (FLL), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC). 

For more information on FTC, visit http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc 
For information about the Michigan FTC program, visit http://firstinmichigan.org/index.html or email michiganftc@gmail.com
For information about programs in Novi, email novi.robotics@gmail.com

Brian Smith
Novi Robotics - NBot
novi.robotics@gmail.com
248-345-6446

6134 Black Frogs team and mentors with their Inspire Award banner

Back row from left: Sanat Joshi, Mallik Chitta, Brendan Bloom, Chris Huang, Sripriya Vangipuram, Tom Pospeshil

Middle row from left: Maria Mazza, Aditya Chitta, Soorya Ramappan, Mitchel Huang, Corey Grassmyer, Ashwin Vangipuram

Front row from left: Duncan Yang, Ria Joshi, Eric Mazza, Andrew Pospeshil