Mountaineer Area RoboticS

This song was played at the FIRST championship in 2010. This song was made for FIRST robotics check the song out below.
http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/content.aspx?id=17069

The MARS team finished on the Newton field ranked 33rd. Competition was tough and the teams that won on Newton went on to win overall on the Einstein field. Other major MARS news is that team member Luke was named one of ten Dean's List finalists from all of the FRC program see the video (shot by his younger brother) here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmJS9ktYWo. The MARS team did a great job throughout the event.

Team MARS won the Engineering Inspiration award, was part of a four-way tie for the Coopertition Award (given for having opponents who lost to your alliance, but with the highest scores), and the Rockwell Innovation in Controls Award (for the fourth straight regional).

When we have more bandwith we'll post photos and video of the matches as soon as we can.

MARS competed at the Pittsburgh Regional where they won the Innovation in Controls Award, an award for Safety (most safety tokens), and made it to the semifinals in the Robot Competition. You can watch the video from the finals at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5417946. We had a great alliance with teams 2641 and 2809 in the finals.

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.

The Mon County FLL scrimmage was held on December 5th on the WVU campus from 8:30 to 16:00. The public was invited and the event took place in Brooks Hall on the downtown WVU campus. Crowds saw fourteen local FLL teams in action as they prepared for the WV State FLL tournament on Dec 19th in Wheeling. The MARS team gathered fourteen bags of food for local food pantries during the event.

The Scrimmage was featured on WBOY at the 5:00 PM and 11:00 PM News. If you missed it you can checked it out here. http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=71481

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