Right out of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (the book and not the sad movie)

Wikipedia Article on Starship Troopers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

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The Winners are In!

Stanley Jr. our favorite bot by our favoite robotics team took second place.

The results can be found at the Grand Challege Site.

A great day for mankind

Today was defiantly and historical day and it was great to watch the 8 hour epic unfold live. 6 of the 11 teams entering the finals completed the competition. The results will be announced Sunday morning. Here is the status board from the DARPA site.

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While watching the event I finally got a chance to work on my automated tea steeper.

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DARPA Urban Grand Challenge Day

Today is the day for the finals of the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge. We'll be watching it streamed over the web from the DARPA link, http://www.grandchallenge.org/darpauc07/watchtherace/.

Our day started with a sunrise rocket launch. It was a bit cold for the kids, so we did not fly the air plane, but we had to great launchs.

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Georgia Tech is Out of the Race

Bummer. Georgia Tech's Sting Racing is out of the DARPA Grand Challenge. For more information visit their site.

qv: www.sting-racing.org

Here is a video of their run on Course C at the qualifying event.

Stanley Jr. evaluated by DARPA

2007 FIRST Championships Day 3

Sorry, no pictures for day 3. Due to a strong and unpredictable storm we decided to head home early.

2007 FIRST Championships Day 2

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2007 FIRST Championships Day 1

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Has you can see Day 1 of the 2007 FIRST Championships went well for us with Dean Kamen signing my Servo Magazine cover. We had a great time talking with teams from South Korea, Haiti, England, Denmark, Israel, Peru, Canada and, of course, the United States.

2007 FIRST Championship - April 12, 13 & 14 - Atlanta, GA

This is the week. The 2007 FIRST International Championships are happening at the Georgia Dome April 12 - 14th. DO you best to take advantage of the educational and highly motivational event.

If your worried about parking and getting in and out of the event the don't. When we went last year we easily got a parking spot in a lot across the street from the Dome for about $5.

Unfortunately this is the case because of the lack of non-team related spectators. This is an amazing event, it is free to the public and not many people go just to watch and learn.

The best part is that the "Pits", where the teams are working on the robots are open for anyone to see and visit. The kids and coaches love to talk about their robots, many teams have funky consumes and hair does, plus most teams give away team pins for the kids.

Come down and have fun it is only 2.5 hours from Greenville, SC.

If you cannot come down, but want to see the event NASA TV will be broadcasting live Friday and Saturday. They will also stream some events via the Internet.


qv: http://www.usfirst.org/community/content.aspx?id=4190

FIRST LEGO League Regional Qualifier at Clemson

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FIRST Robotics Competition 2007 Kickoff in Greenville, South Carolina

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We'll be cheering our local teams on all the way to Atlanta.

Our next FIRST event is the FIRST LEGO League Regional at Clemson.

Batter Up!