2011 Chesapeake Regional

Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD

The Miracle Workerz attended the Chesapeake Regional, which was held for the second time in Baltimore, MD. There was so much energy, and our robot, PandeMOEnium, performed great! Everyone we encountered was incredibly gracious and we were really impressed with the competition. MOE was 6th seed and competed as the 5th alliance captain, with the Robolions and C Company on our team. Although we were knocked out in the quarterfinals, we were awarded 3 prizes: Gracious Professionalism, Website, and Innovation awards, more than were awarded to any other team at the regional. We are so grateful for them and we had a great time in Baltimore!

Awards Received

Gracious Professionalism

We won Gracious Professionalism because of our ever-helpful Mobile Pit! We also so many other teams demonstrate this quality and always encourage others to do so.

Website

"The Best Website for the Chesapeake Regional was described by evaluators as professional, esay to nagivate, and having a pleasing layout. The site has tons of information and a sense of spirit and identity. Evaluators especially liked the page of proud grandmothers!"

Innovation in Control

"Sensing the competition was going to be fierce, this team outfitted their robot with an inoovative set of sensors. This allowed them to incorporate powerful control systems into the robot, improving its precision and accuracy. Larry, Curly, and Shemp are jealous that his one goes to their buddy!"

Awards Received by MOE from Other Teams

Team 134, Team Discovery, gave us the "Discovery Award" for the highest 1^st day average of Mini-Bot Deployment Points and Team 836, the Robobees, gave us the "Hive Five" award for being a role model in the competition!

Media Gallery

MOE's personal recognition awards! This photo shows all 6 of them but without the Corian in the slots.

These are the MOE awards completed. See the writing on the Corian? That was painted by toothpick. Patience. We have it.

Karen (left) and Carol (right), two of our mentors, volunteered at the competition.

Our awards team minus Malinda (left to right): Kevin, Megan, Bobby, Stephen, Ruyan, and Eileen. They are just getting ready to go around the pits presenting awards.

Team Discovery 134 presented us with the highest first day average of minibot deployment points award! Thank you so much!

And we in turn presented Team Discovery our Spirit award!

Nathan, working on Curly, one of our 4 minibots.

Maggie wears our spirit catcher, a giant gear that is impossible to walk in but somehow she manages to dance in it anyway.

Juliana represented MOE during alliance selection.

Ryan, Maggie, and Ruyan do some surgery on the spirit catcher before it goes into action.

MOE team members go onto the field after winning of our three awards!

Our mentor Bob along with 3/4 of our competition drive team: Clare, Jeremy, and Morton.

The MOE Pit Ambassador team Grant, Anqi, Ollie, and Ali meet with our mentor before the competition to have a last discussion.

Our competition team and part of our pit crew test out the robot on the practice field.

Josh and Lucie make some edits to the autonomous program.

Juliana and Jeremy on the field right before a match.

Nathan makes some adjustments in the pit.

(Special Thanks to Bill for shooting the video)