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Dalton Robots Take The Lead

Dalton teams have gone undefeated in two recent NYC robotics tournaments so far this season. The three Dalton teams who have gone to tournaments already have earned spots at the NYC championship. Robotics coach and mentor Michael Sloan Warren predicted, “I am confident the last one will (win) as well once they compete. “
At the first NYC tournament, in Brooklyn, on December 20, one team (Atomic Theory) went undefeated in both the qualifying rounds and the playoffs, winning the tournament and earning a spot at the championship. They also won the Control Award for outstanding programming and use of sensors.
 
Dalton took two teams to the second NYC tournament in Queens, and once again one of the teams (Standard Model) went undefeated, winning the tournament as well as the Think Award, which is given to the team that best reflects the journey through the engineering design process. Our second team (Quantum Mechanics) scored highly in all categories and ended up winning the Inspire Award, the overall tournament award given to the team that best represents a 'role-model' robotics team.  Due to their success, both teams qualified for the championship in March.
 
The New York chapter of FIRST hosts five robotics tournaments around the city.  The teams that win at each tournament are then invited to the NYC Championship on March 1st. Qualifying for the championship is a big deal, and one major goal of the program was to help as many of our four teams make it there as possible.

The Queens tournament was featured on local news, which used a ton of footage of robot 9372 that went undefeated.

Background story and robot photo provided by Michael Sloan Warren, Middle and High School Robotics and Computer Science Teacher
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