Over 200 hundred students from North-Central WV and Southwestern PA participated in the 2011 MARS FLL scrimmage (http://www.wboy.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=64...). This year's challenging course pushed each team to its limit. Award winners at the scrimmage are:
MARS Robotics Scrimmage Winners.
Field Competition
1. Geek Central
2. MARS Rovers
3. Imperial Orange
Teamwork
1. Virtual Vikings
2. P.R.I.D.E.
3. Laugh Out Legos
Research
1. Suncrest Sealz
2. Block Busters
3. South Stallions
Technical
1. MARS Rovers
2. TNT
3. Techno Storm
Special Awards
Team Spirit: Jayenne Robo Jaguars
Gracious Professionalism: Smarticle Robo Builders
Against All Odds: Tator-Bots
Rising Star: Ice Cold Cubs
Team MARS is building LEGO models of spacecraft for NASA. Watch this video for some highlights.
See the highlights reel from our recent competition in Ohio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bArQjBkIAFg
Read about MARS in the WV State Journal. http://statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=99936&catid=419. The MARS program was named one of the 55 Best Things in WV in 2011.
See highlights MARS' competition at the Palmetto Regional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVuX2PajPJg
The MARS team community outreach robot performed a ribbon cutting for West Virginia University's new Physics building and a groundbreaking for West Virginia University's new basketball practice facility. See the video of the event.
MARS has gone trilingual. Check out this MARS story in spanish MARS y FIRST en Espanol and the Rookie Packet in Arabic وسجل هاميلتون حزم في اللغة العربية