Oregon City Robotics has Advanced to the World Finals for the Second Year in a Row!
Recently the Oregon City Robotics team competed in Seattle at the Microsoft Regional Tournament. This was the largest Regional in the US this year, with 64 teams from Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, New Hampshire, Florida, Canada, and one all the way from Istanbul, Turkey.
Oregon City managed to secure their spot as one of the top 6 teams to advance to the World Finals by winning the coveted Engineering Inspiration award. This award Celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community. Which once again shows, it's not about the robot, but how wonderful a team we have, that gets us to the World Finals.
We will be leaving on April 14th and returning on April 20th from Atlanta,GA. We have lots to get done between now and then, like raising $30,000 so everyone can make it for flights, hotel, transportation, meals, parts, marketing materials and shipping costs. Everything needs to get booked this week, so hopefully so we can get rooms and flights first.
While we were there, Ariel Pyne, Senior member on the team, was presented with a scholarship from Seattle Pacific University for business. We also have two girls going to Harvey Mudd for computer science, one girl going to Oregon for marketing, one boy going to BYU for computer science, one going to Gonzaga for engineering, two boys to Oregon State one for engineering and one for geology and one girl, Erica Smith going to Harriott Watt in Scotland for Artificial Intelligence. Not bad for a second year team. Everyone of our seniors are going to college 3/4 on scholarships.
We couldn't have made it this far without the help of everyone involved with the team and all of our community support and business partnerships. Now is when the team really needs your help since we have such a large hurdle to get over in the next two weeks to still make it to Atlanta to the World Finals. If you could help in any way, big or small, it will be appreciated and honored.
To make donations you can make checks payable to;
O.C.C.S. (Oregon City Community Schools)
1404 7th St.
Oregon City, OR 97045
Attn. Oregon City Robotics
Tax ID # 93-6000264
or you can donate online using your debit/credit card. For more information about the program and/or to donate online visit www.OregonCityRobotics.com.
Any dontations are tax deductible and benefit a wonderful group of brilliant high school students.
If you have any questions please feel free to Roger Collier at roger_in_oregon@yahoo.com
Thank you for your support