Thursday, March 8, 2012

Wednesday_FIRST +Overall

The winner of the All Star Rookie team gets to go to St.Louis, America.
The Jokers won that award : <
I expected a bit to win the All Star because we managed to the semi finals when other Rookie teams didn't.
The Ladies First team won 2 awards. One for inspiration. Another for building..
WHICH MADE NO SENSE.
Okay, inspiration for chanting songs and being happy when they were ranked like the last 10. But building?!
Holy shuotu. If it's because their robot was pink, I am going to paint our robot pink with Justin Beiver's face on it.
The Steam Punk didn't win the Chairman award but they won second place : 3 good job

It was funny when the Californian team won the Israel region.
I mean.. the Americans came to Israel by invitation and won.. lol
They were surly good. #1662!

With all the ceremony and games done, we went to eat shwama.
While we were eating, the Ra'anana team packed our robotic stuff. lol
I was like..
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lol

Oh funny thing:
On Wednesday, my dad saw our robot for the first time. (my mum hasn't seen it lol)
Usually when parents visit, they compliments us how we did a fantastic job and how amazing we built this in our first year from scratch.
But my dad was different.
He just nodded and didn't say a single motivating word.
I hate Korean/Asian parents.
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


My mum became furious after she realized that she isn't going to get her $500 repaid. lol
She hates the project.
She hates it. 
When I came back on Wednesday, she started to scream how I came home at 11pm probably for the third time that week.
I don't know why, but she thinks I partied until 11pm. I've got no idea where she got that from. Eventually, I had to tell her where I was every 30 minutes that night.
She really doesn't understand the project and it's worth.
Too bad. I feel bad for her because one can't understand such thing if they haven't done it.
Since I figured out that there is no point to argue something she would never understand, I went upstairs silently and read the book club book and fell asleep.

I received an email from Mr Jackover. He wants a debrief on the 18th with all the parents and students involved in Robotics. My parents weren't near glad or happy when I told them we went to the semi finals.
It's most likely they are not going to come. lol

I hope I get to join next year.
50% not..because
1. My parents won't invest $500 on someone who got the Deans list not the Honor list.
2. Have 4 Cs, 2Bs and 1 A (So many Cs in my life time...lol)
3. 20 absences
4.Mr Sickle hates me now






Tuesday_FIRST+Wednesday_photos

So I woke up at 6:18am. 13 minutes late what I was planning.
I rushed to the shower and texted Carter that my father would drive me at 7am to the stadium.
When I left the house at 7ish, and arrived at school, Carter wasn't there. Carter decided to go to the stadium at 8:30a.m. by train. Dang. you could have told me that beforeee

Arrived at the stadium around 7:30 and dad dropped me off.
It was funny how he didn't even wanted to see our robot.. When I arrived, I went to a driver meeting even though I wasn't a driver. It was pretty boring.
Our first game was at like 10am.
I thought we would lost all our games. But we DIDN'T.
We had a record of 5wins 5loses and 0 ties.
We were the 36th out of around 50 teams!
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It was pretty good result because we were the Rookies.
We were the third in the rookie teams
The Jokers, 4320 was amazing. I couldn't believe their team built such a big, chunky, accurate robot in their first year. They were ranked first with like 7wins and 4 loses I think.
The other team which I don't remember the name but do remember the number, 4326, was good too.
Their accuracy in shooting balls were terrific.
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/frc-season-calendar

There was a team from an Orthodox Jewish girl highschool Be'er Sheva.
Their robot was pink and won like 1 or 2 games. They lost the rest of 6 games.
Ladies First kept on chanting holiday songs during the whole game inside the tent.
It was unspeakably annoying because it was noisy enough inside the tent without them singing.
Inside the tent, there were around 50 teams. The screeching sound of the metal cutter, the sharp irritating noise of saw cutting and the radio with pop music was surly wan't the best environment to work at.

Around 1pm, they started to give out few awards.
The Woodie Flower Award
and 4other awards. Gosh I forgot all the rest.
We didn't win anything :' < because we didn't know awards other than the Chairman and the Winner existed.lol
Oh well, next year.



Betha getting surgeries

Get your 'bot' in the game

our shooter

#1690

All our mentors and adult helpers!

hate ipod photo quality 

can't believe he shaved half of his hair off. Dedication I guess. 

QUARTER FINALS

quarter finalsssss


Ours red on the very left
 


So nice of them!!!!

packing everything we had for the past 3 days : < quite emotional

bye bye 4338

GERSHONNN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTQMZkSbHMw&feature=youtu.be
that's our quarter final video
I don't know why the embedding doesn't work.
So GO TO THAT LINK
we are 4338 The skinny one!