The Turpinators are the Regional Champs!

April 16-21, the Turpinators will be in Houston for the FIRST Championship. There are two Festivals, one in Houston for the southern teams in North America and half of the worldwide teams. The other festival is in Detroit for the northern North American teams and the other half of the worldwide teams. We will be presenting just like at the Regional.

There are three different presentations:
  1. A Design presentation about the robot, where the students show the thought and planning that went into building and designing the robot to do the various missions on the game table
  2. A Project presentation, which is kind of like a Science Fair project. Our team researched and built prototype glasses for astronauts to use in micro-gravity when the fluid pressures change in the human head causing rapid eye prescription adjustments.
  3. A Core Values presentation about how the team conducts itself in a professional and "cooperation" mode which is respectful to opponents and each other while also having a great time and pushing for excellence in the competition.
Then the team will have a day on the practice tables to prepare for a day of competition on the game table both with and against the best lego robots and best programming that the world has to offer. We are very excited and humbled to be included in this group, and we relish the opportunity to attend again after our last trip to the FIRST Championship in St Louis in 2017.

Schedule and Streaming Options
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Tuesday, April 16 -
  • Travel
Wednesday, April 17 -
  • Travel 
  • Check in
  • Set up our booth
  • Have a little fun
  • Practice presentations
Thursday, April 18 - 
  • 8:50 AM - Judging for Core Values, Robot Design, and Project (done by 9:50)
  • 12:40 PM - Practice Round #23 on Table 3 (Our first practice, live on Twitch)
  • 1:45 PM - Practice Round #30 on Table 1 (Our second practice, live on Twitch)
  • 2:50 PM - Practice Round # 37 on Table 5 (Our third practice, live on Twitch)
  • 5:00 PM - FIRST Championship Welcome Party Presented by Two Sigma
​Friday, April 19 -
  • 9:20 AM - Round #9 on Table 7 (Our first match that counts, live on Twitch)
  • 11:25 AM - Round 23 on Table 2 (Our second match that counts, live on Twitch)
  • 2:20 PM - Round 37 on Table 6 (Our last match that counts, live on Twitch)
  • Sometime during the day - random visit by judges
  • Evening - Houston Aquarium
Saturday, April 20 -
  • NASA Space Center
  • FIRST LEGO League Awards
  • FIRST Closing Ceremony
  • Travel
Sunday, April 21 -
  • Travel
Twitch TV's main FIRST Championship feed:
https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires

For the Championship website, go to: www.firstchampionship.org/houston