A number of teams from California won awards at the annual FIRST world championships held in St. Louis over the weekend (28-30 April 2011). In the FRC bracket, a team from San Jose (Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs) joined with one from Atascadero (Team 973, Greybots) to win the overall championship alliance with a team from Schaumburg, Illinois (Team 111, WildStang). A number of other California teams were Division Finalists or Division Winners.
Santiago Garza from Team 2543 (TitanBot) in Chula Vista and Christina Wettersten from Team 1868 (Space Cookies) out of Moffett Field were members of the Dean's List. Team 687 (The Nerd Herd) from Carson won the Entrepreneurship Award; Team 1671 (Buchanan Bird Brains) from Clovis won the Excellence in Design Award (Animation), while The Cheesy Poofs from San Jose won the Industrial Design Award, and Team 1538 (The Holy Cows) from San Diego won the Quality Award.
In the FIRST Tech Challenge, Team 4278 (de.evolution) from San Diego and Team 3053 (Doves of Justice) from Atherton were members of the championship alliance with Team 4102 (CHS Robotics) from South Orange, NJ. Team 1421 (PHI - Power through Higher Innovation) from Lancaster won the Connect Award.
For more details on the competition, see http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/content.aspx?id=19701
Congratulations to all of the teams for their hard work and dedication!
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