Team Needs $9000 More to Reach $28,000 Goal
Shelton WA, April 17, 2017– Team 5295 will
compete at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and
Technology) World Championship April 20-22 in Houston. Costs are higher than anticipated: $5000
Entry Fee, $11000 Air Travel, $9000 Hotel, $1400 Food and $900 Car rentals.
Donate at http://frcteam5295aldernatingcurrent.blogspot.com/search/label/Donate or send fund-raising ideas to Andy
Hospador (360-426-0741; AndyH3626@gmail.com), or AlanWalker@earthlink.net
(253-852-4002).
Team sponsor DragonflyMediaNW.com
created exciting video highlights of the Shelton High Robotics Team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWWoZDRY91c.
Watch the April 20–22 World
Championship at https://www.firstchampionship.org/watch-live. Finished matches are posted at https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/5295. The Shelton High Robotics Team
competes as Team 5295 in the Newton division
against teams from Brazil, China, Israel, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States.
There will be 400 FRC teams competing in
six divisions named for famous scientists: Carver, Galileo, Hopper, Newton, Roebling
and Turing. The division winners play the
finals Saturday April 22nd on the Einstein field.
After the
competition, on Sunday April 23rd the Team will tour NASA Johnson
Space Center with a woman space scientist arranged by Jeff Slakey of KMAS &
iFiberOne.
FIRST™ Robotics was started in 1989 by
inventor Dean Kamen to make science a sport.
Kids have so much fun they do not
realize they are learning how to solve problems via critical thinking.
In Mason County, there are FIRST Lego
League robotics teams at Olympia Middle (6-7) and Pioneer (4-8) Schools for the
grades indicated.
Students competing at the World
Championships are team captain Jaeden H., Abbie A., Carolynn C., Dylan R., Kiery
E., Jacob H., Kirstin G., Robert G.-A., and Tristin N. The adults attending are Coach J.Wright, A.Walker,
A.Hospador, F.Newby, K.Hansen and R.Clarey.
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