I'm not part of the academic decathlon. The robotics team takes up all my free time during the weekdays and on Saturdays I take college courses at a community college through the program ACE, at the moment we're working on the ROV for this year's competition (I can promise there will be a few very innovative features on this year's ROV) and we are getting ready for the FIRST( For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, usfirst.org) National competition the 20-23 in Atlanta.
If you are serious about doanting money to our college funds the district approved setting up a paypal account so contact me on Monday for the account, I don't know the account number yet, sorry.
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No offense but they did tell me so. Does "there's no way they can win," mean what I think it means?
Be careful when you call people liars because I was there and I wasn't making an assumption when I wrote that. You were, from where I stand you're the liar and said so yourself.
There is a website up from last year's competition but it hasn't been updated in a while. The site is the one you can reach from marinetech.org for the Explorer class competition. Unfortunately we haven't had time to update anything but there are a few OTHER projects we are a part of. Throughout the year we take part of several other projects through the Carl Hayden Robotics Club. It isn't as if the ROV is our one and only success which seems to be what people are most familiar with.
Dr. Allan Cameron started a HAM Radio Club at school. Any members from the robotics club are part of the Ham Radio club. Several of us even have Ham licenses. We also take part of a pumpkin chunkin' trebuchet competition. This year's model was 20 ft tall. If you don't already know what a trebuchet is look it up online. They are awesome!!
Another competition we take part in is the FIRST Competition (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Engineering). This is the competition we take part in every year and is the one where learned most of the ideas we used for the ROV. In this competition we face the best high schools in the country and many from around the globe. One of the regionals this year was hosted in the Middle East (I'm not sure which one). The site for this one is www.usfirst.org. The one teams regularly use is chiefdelphi.com. --Check it out, LOOK FOR TEAM 842.
Throughout the whole year we do presentations and mentor other teams to show them that just because we come from central Phoenix doesn't mean we're bums. We mentored 6 lego teams this year and hosted the Arizona Lego League Regional Championships at our school for the second year in a row. firstlegoleague.org
Just a few weeks ago I made a presentation to the governor of Arizona on what our program is and why more schools should take a part in programs like we do. As usual I wasn't informed I'd present until ten minutes before it was our turn to speak.
If you would like to have more information please send me your e-mail at cristianatme@yahoo.com, thanks.
"They were handed the competition because they scored better in the subjective parts. I KNOW part of that was because they were underprivileged kids who weren't expected to do anything. They essentially rose so far above expectations that they were given the competition as a result."
That is downright false. At the competition several different judges judged each part of the competition without referring to anyone else about the scores. Each panel of judges came to the conclusion for scores without the guidence of the others.
I don't believe they all came to the conclusion telepathically that we were a poor school that deserved pity. I happen to know for a fact that a few of the judeges weren't on Carl Hayden's side at the competition.
Your theory is full of holes. and your irragants is thick. First of all MIT would have failed at getting the contract to go to the moon because they couldnt sell themselves to the judges. If this was real. Also in the competition MIT could not bring back a sample of stuff that was in the the pool. So Even they got to the moon their would be no info to study because they couldnt bring any back. If MIT cant write a technical report than they should not be able to be engineers. They on the team worked hard for what they got and they deserve what they are getting and people that are jealous and they have to pick it apart should not have axcess to a computer. If you think you can do better i woulod like to see you can contact me at DrRichope@aol.com. So please tell me i would appreciate it because intill then all i see is talk with no smarts to back it.
To people that care about the content of the article rather than the opportunity to voice their opinions I'd like to clear someting up. The students who participated in the MATE ROV Competition are not A+ students. These are not the high school brains that outshine everyone else. The one with the highest grade among the group will not be the High School Valedictorian when he graduates. He will lose out to a kid with an Asian background. As much as poeople would like to put a specific label on these kids, which they are, keep in mind that they are average high school students that like to learn and work hard. It was their drive to succeed and loyalty to the team and each other that enabled them to reach their victory. Next time you see a short Mexican kid with baggy shorts and deep back hair think of me. I'm the 4th kid from the right.
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I'm not part of the academic decathlon. The robotics team takes up all my free time during the weekdays and on Saturdays I take college courses at a community college through the program ACE, at the moment we're working on the ROV for this year's competition (I can promise there will be a few very innovative features on this year's ROV) and we are getting ready for the FIRST( For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, usfirst.org) National competition the 20-23 in Atlanta. If you are serious about doanting money to our college funds the district approved setting up a paypal account so contact me on Monday for the account, I don't know the account number yet, sorry. dude__hi@netzero.net
No offense but they did tell me so. Does "there's no way they can win," mean what I think it means? Be careful when you call people liars because I was there and I wasn't making an assumption when I wrote that. You were, from where I stand you're the liar and said so yourself.
There is a website up from last year's competition but it hasn't been updated in a while. The site is the one you can reach from marinetech.org for the Explorer class competition. Unfortunately we haven't had time to update anything but there are a few OTHER projects we are a part of. Throughout the year we take part of several other projects through the Carl Hayden Robotics Club. It isn't as if the ROV is our one and only success which seems to be what people are most familiar with.
Dr. Allan Cameron started a HAM Radio Club at school. Any members from the robotics club are part of the Ham Radio club. Several of us even have Ham licenses. We also take part of a pumpkin chunkin' trebuchet competition. This year's model was 20 ft tall. If you don't already know what a trebuchet is look it up online. They are awesome!!
Another competition we take part in is the FIRST Competition (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Engineering). This is the competition we take part in every year and is the one where learned most of the ideas we used for the ROV. In this competition we face the best high schools in the country and many from around the globe. One of the regionals this year was hosted in the Middle East (I'm not sure which one). The site for this one is www.usfirst.org. The one teams regularly use is chiefdelphi.com. --Check it out, LOOK FOR TEAM 842.
Throughout the whole year we do presentations and mentor other teams to show them that just because we come from central Phoenix doesn't mean we're bums. We mentored 6 lego teams this year and hosted the Arizona Lego League Regional Championships at our school for the second year in a row. firstlegoleague.org
Just a few weeks ago I made a presentation to the governor of Arizona on what our program is and why more schools should take a part in programs like we do. As usual I wasn't informed I'd present until ten minutes before it was our turn to speak.
If you would like to have more information please send me your e-mail at cristianatme@yahoo.com, thanks.
"They were handed the competition because they scored better in the subjective parts. I KNOW part of that was because they were underprivileged kids who weren't expected to do anything. They essentially rose so far above expectations that they were given the competition as a result." That is downright false. At the competition several different judges judged each part of the competition without referring to anyone else about the scores. Each panel of judges came to the conclusion for scores without the guidence of the others. I don't believe they all came to the conclusion telepathically that we were a poor school that deserved pity. I happen to know for a fact that a few of the judeges weren't on Carl Hayden's side at the competition.
Your theory is full of holes. and your irragants is thick. First of all MIT would have failed at getting the contract to go to the moon because they couldnt sell themselves to the judges. If this was real. Also in the competition MIT could not bring back a sample of stuff that was in the the pool. So Even they got to the moon their would be no info to study because they couldnt bring any back. If MIT cant write a technical report than they should not be able to be engineers. They on the team worked hard for what they got and they deserve what they are getting and people that are jealous and they have to pick it apart should not have axcess to a computer. If you think you can do better i woulod like to see you can contact me at DrRichope@aol.com. So please tell me i would appreciate it because intill then all i see is talk with no smarts to back it.
To people that care about the content of the article rather than the opportunity to voice their opinions I'd like to clear someting up. The students who participated in the MATE ROV Competition are not A+ students. These are not the high school brains that outshine everyone else. The one with the highest grade among the group will not be the High School Valedictorian when he graduates. He will lose out to a kid with an Asian background. As much as poeople would like to put a specific label on these kids, which they are, keep in mind that they are average high school students that like to learn and work hard. It was their drive to succeed and loyalty to the team and each other that enabled them to reach their victory. Next time you see a short Mexican kid with baggy shorts and deep back hair think of me. I'm the 4th kid from the right.