2021-22 Freight Frenzy
The theme of this game is transportation. Teams build a robot that picks up freight from warehouse and delivers it onto the shipping hub. There are different levels on the delivering freight at higher levels earn more points. Our favorite game element of this season is the duck.
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After winning the Inspire Award and the tournament at Columbia, MD!
Awards and Recognitions
Note: Events are in reverse chronological order
FIRST Chesapeake Regional Championship on April 9, 2022:
Finalist Alliance Captain
FIRST Chesapeake Regional Championship on April 8, 2022:
Winning Alliance 2nd Pick
Harrisonburg Qualifier on January 30-Feb 5, 2022:
Control Award Winner : The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to increase the robot’s functionality in the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, improving mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results.
Alexandria Qualifier on January 15-16, 2022:
Innovate Award Winner : The Innovate Award celebrates a team that thinks imaginatively and has the ingenuity, creativity, and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This judged award is given to the team that has an innovative and creative robot design solution to any specific components in the FIRST Tech Challenge game.
Columbia Qualifier on December 4, 2021:
Inspire Award Winner : This judged award is given to the team that best embodies the ‘challenge’ of the FIRST Tech Challenge program, is a strong ambassador for FIRST programs, and shares their experiences, enthusiasm and knowledge with other teams, sponsors, their community, and the judges. Working as a unit, this team will have shown success in performing the task of designing and building a robot.
Winning Alliance Captain
Motivate Award 2nd Place : This judged award celebrates the Team that represents the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge Competition through Gracious Professionalism and general enthusiasm for the overall philosophy of FIRST and what it means to be a FIRST Tech Challenge Team.
Design Award 3rd Place : This judged award recognizes design elements of the Robot that are both functional and aesthetic. The Design Award is presented to Teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution.