MOE News Archive

2006-07 Season

May 14, 2007

MOE Visits the Whitehouse!

MOE visited the White House on April 30. At the right, you can see our picture in the White House with President Geroge W. Bush! Please visit our MOE at the White House page for more information.

April 16, 2007

MOE Returns from Atlanta!

MOE has returned from Atlanta, Georgia! The championship matches at the Georgia Dome were amazing. Congratulations to each team that participated, good job everyone for making it to Atlanta! Though MOE did lose in the quarter finals, we were proud of our team and our robot, and especially when we were announced the winners of the National 2007 Chairman's Award!

April 5, 2007

Philadelphia Personal Recognition Awards

The Philadelphia Regional Awards are now up! These awards were given out to the various teams that participated at the first event at Drexel University. Please visit our 2007 PRA Awards page.

April 2, 2007

The Philly Regional!

MOE enjoyed being back at our "home" regional, Philadelphia, held at Drexel University. We were proud of our team's performance on the field, and in the stands and pits. For our team, after winning the Website Award on Friday we were pleased to win the Regional Chairman's Award on Saturday. Now it's on to Atlanta!

March 25, 2007

The Personal Recognition Awards!

For the past three years MOE has been awarding those individuals who make first events truly memorable, and yet, never seem to have any kind of recognition. For every regional that MOE attends, we make a few of these special buttons. Then, people who are believed to deserve a button by others at the regional, are presented with one. The person giving the button fills out a simple form and turns it into Pit Admin, so that after the regional, the results are published on our Web site. Check out our 2007 PRA Awards page.

March 14, 2007

MOE returns from Rochester Regional

On Sunday, MOE returned to HQ after the long trip back from Rochester, New York. The Finger Lakes Regional Competition, held at RIT was an amazing one. Every match was great, and every team that participated brought suspense, challenge, and excitement to the matches.

March 5, 2007

MOE Pit Loaded for Rochester

The MOE pit and our equipment was loaded in the truck ready for its trip to the first Finger Lakes Regional at Rochester!

March 4, 2007

MOE Open House

Today we held an open house at MOE HQ. Families of our students came to see what the MOE students were doing, and how Firefox, our practice robot, was working.

Each of our sub-teams was shown to the visitors and the jobs of the groups were explained to them, and they saw the robot in action. We had great results with our open house.

March 1, 2007

MOE Student Achieves More

Today it was announced that Morgan, a member of the MOE programming sub-team and the MOE competition team, received a $1,250 scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers. This is a great achievement, and everyone at MOE is happy for her success.

Not only did Morgan gain the SWE scholarship, she also received a first scholarship to the Florida Institute of Technology for $3,000. She went through an application process, including an interview, and received great results. Congratulations to Morgan!

February 22, 2007

MOEzilla revealed!

You all may have been wondering what MOE would have in store for 2007. Well, today MOE reveals the new bot to the public. We won't show how this robot works, you will just have to find out at future competitions. Please visit our Robot Page for a better view!

February 20, 2007

MOEzilla is now shipped!

After MOEzilla was put away in its crate, it was ready to ship. MOE is looking forward to Rochester, and also looking forward to the competition that is ahead of us. Our box will be the den for MOEzilla as it is being transported to Rochester.

February 19, 2007

MOEzilla is now Crated Up and Ready to Ship!

MOEzilla, MOE's robot for 2007, has been completed, tested and crated. Now we have our box ready for Rochester, which will be MOEzilla's home for the next few weeks. Here is our team captain preparing the box for the arrival of MOEzilla.

February 18, 2007

MOEmentum is Upgraded with New Features!

Our database for new teams is now indexed by topic as well as by week. You can now follow your topic of interest through the whole build season with one mouse click. Go to The MOEmentum page to see more.

February 8, 2007

A New Name is Born!

After a very intense poll, we were finally able to come to the last two names for our new robot. MOE members had a very long list of proposed names, and the top two were chosen on the 7th of February. These two were MOEzilla and ArackMOEphobia. On this date, February 8, the chosen name for our robot was MOEzilla!

Also, after many logos were submitted we voted for one that seemed the best for MOE. To the right is the new MOE logo! The 8 gears represent the 8 years that the MOE team has been around. You'll be seeing this logo on our shirts and even animated on our Web site!

January 27, 2007

first State Lego League Tournament

The first State Lego League Tournament was held at the Bob Carpenter Center on the campus of the University of Delaware. JFLL, FLL, and first VEX Competition">FVC events were held simultaneously. Congratulations to every participating and winning team! Also a big congratulations to the winner of the Tournament Volunteer of the Year Award, Vince Keedy!

January 22, 2007

MOE Forums!

The MOE Forums are up for 2007! Each MOE team member has an ID and password to access our private Team section. Others are welcome to register to participate in the public forums. Come and join the forums -- let's hear from you.

January 21, 2007

MOE in the Newspaper!

Today was another busy day at MOE when a reporter came in representing the five regional papers of the Community News. The subteams that make up MOE were interviewed by reporter Kevin Barrett, shown here with our Programming Team. Each of our teams will be covered in this weekly series of articles. You can visit the Community News site at www.communitypub.com

January 15, 2007

MOE at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration

MOE went out this day to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. We demonstrated TerMOEnator, our 2006 robot, and also VEX robots. It was a fun day for MOE students, and the kids had fun too during the whole event. That's always a good thing to see.

January 6, 2007

Kick-off and Brainstorming!

2006 is over, and the new year is here. With a new game put into play, and the challenge that this new game is expected to bring, MOE is getting ready for the new world that lies ahead. The competition is something to truly look forward to. We look forward to seeing all the teams at future competitions. Good luck to everyone out there!

The MOE Web Team has also begun to think about how to enhance our website for greater results when it comes to your viewing pleasure. More content will be added for the new year, so continue to visit.