New Clean Sweep Highlight Video Hits The Internet

The newest Green Egg Robotics highlight video made its debut on Youtube on 8/23/10.  The video, created by James, is a collage of clips from the 2010 VRC World Championship and the New England Championship. 

To view the 2010 highlight video click on this link.

Green Egg In The News (5/09/10)

Can't get enough of the Green Egg Robotics?  Check out the latest story about the team at Boston's online magazine, Blast Magazine.   

If that doesn't fill your need for Green, then tune in to WGBH radio (89.7) on May 10th, 2010 from 1:40-2:00PM when the team will be interviewed by Callie Crossley on the Callie Crossley Show.

Egg-citing News

Green Egg Robotics, The 2010 VRC World Robot Skills Champion and World Finalist

On April 24th 2010 at the Vex Robotics World Championship, Green Egg Robotics, a little 4 student team from Central Massachusetts competed against 396 of the world's best robotics teams from 14 different countries.  They won the Robot Skills Challenge and are now the 2010 VRC World Robot Skills Champions.  In the VRC World Championship Tournament, Green Egg Robotics won 16 straight matches and finished as the 2010 VRC World Championship Tournament Finalists and the top finishing US team in the tournament. 

On To Dallas for Fred III (Thanks to the UPS Store of Holden/Worcester/Auburn)

Green Egg Robotics team saw Fred III off today on his first long distance trip to Dallas, Texas. The team did some last minute adjustments and tune-ups including 5 effective, new autonomous programs to run while at the World Championship. GER and robot plan on arriving in Dallas on the same day next week to meet the upcoming challenge at the Dallas Convention Center.

03/27/2010 Maine State Black Bear Tournament Goes (To) GER

Green Egg Robotics traveled up to Black Bear country this past weekend to Orono, Maine for the 2nd Annual Maine State Vex Championship. The very well run event was hosted by Black Bear Robotics of UMaine and attended by 19 teams from Maine and Massachusetts. Green Egg Robotics managed to finish the day undefeated (9-0-0) despite getting mauled by new technical problems from their robot Fred III. "It was not an easy day", said team driver, James Crowther who with the rest of his team spent hours throughout the day between matches adjusting new design features so the robot could adapt to the official field.

The troubleshooting and adjustments paid off. When the final buzzer sounded signaling the end of the competition, Fred III and alliance partners from Greely High School (Think Award) and Yarmouth High School (Judges Award) were the new Maine State Vex Champions. Green Egg Robotics was issued the prestigious tournament Excellence Award by the judges. Having won the Maine tournament gives Green Egg Robotics a new team record 5 local/regional tournament championships in one season.

The team will make a final push over the next several weeks to prepare for the 3rd Annual Vex Robotics World Championship coming up at the end of April. "We have a lot of work to do between now and then!", explained Leland, team builder and lifter operator.

03/20/2010 Green Egg Robotics and Alliance Partners Win 2010 New England Vex Championship

Green Egg Robotics made it 4 for 4 earning its 4th tournament champion trophy in as many tournaments this season over the weekend. Competing at the Vex Robotics New England Championship tournament at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA., the team was able to win their first New England Championship against a field of 47 robots from New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. The winning alliance consisted of teams from South High School, East Longmeadow High School and Green Egg Robotics. In addition GER won the Robot Skills Award with a record setting run of 133 in the timed event.

GER is scheduled for 1 last tournament this season on 3/27/10 in Orono, ME before traveling to Dallas for the World Championship next month.

01/18/10 Two More Tournament Wins For The 2010 VRC Massachusetts State Champions

The Green Egg Robotics Team continued to build on momentum
this past weekend in achieving its 3^rd tournament championship in 3 attempts this season. On January 16^th 2010 the team of 5 (James, Lee, Kieran, Josef and Fred III) played on their “home away from home” field at Quinsigamond Community College against teams from Massachusetts, Maine and California in the 2010 VRC Massachusetts State Championship .

Fred III performed efficiently and consistently in the qualifying rounds and managed to go undefeated edging out an undefeated team from South High School by a mere 2 SP’s in the tiebreaker to earn the 1^st seed. GER chose another undefeated team 1768, Plan B from Nashoba Regional High School as their first pick. Plan B, competing in its very first VRC tournament was a 1student team (designer, builder, driver, scout, etc.) with his dad for coaching and support. The 3 team alliance was rounded out with team 2610B from Claremont Academy in Worcester.

The alliance performed well together advancing through the quarters and semis with 4 straight decisive wins. The finals pitted them against the #2 alliance captained by the team from South High School (2606C) in Worcester which sailed through its quarterfinal and semifinal bracket. They chose the quick, effective scorer and eventual Excellence Award and Programming Skills winner, The Cheesy Poofs (254E) from San Jose, California as their first pick. Their alliance 2^nd pick was a cross town team from Worcester Technical High School. The Cheesy Poofs were chosen by the South High School team captain to be the anchor team to play in the finals in both of the matches.

The Finals pitted the #1 and #2 robots in both the Programming Skills and Driver Skills competitions head to head in both matches. GER held the edge in the Driver Skills (109) while the Poofs were the winners in the Autonomous Competition. The action shaped up as expected with the #2 alliance getting out of the gate quickly in the first match to win the autonomous period. Alliances fought hard during the match with loads of 5 balls passing back and forth over the walls in rapid succession. Teams 44 and 1768 managed to dig out of the early pileup to pull out the victory by the end of the match.

The final match started in favor of the GER alliance with the teams 44 and 2610B winning the autonomous period and getting an early advantage. As in the first match, balls were flying back and forth. The Cheesy Poof robot and its driver appeared to be more and more in “the zone” as the tournament and match progressed gathering and dumping large loads very quickly. The match ended with an exchange of bonus balls with 254E in possession of the GER ball as time ran out. The #1 alliance earned the victory and the Championship.

On December 5^th, 2009 the team competed at the Quinsigamond Vex High School Championship where they managed to earn a tournament champion award as the first pick in an alliance captained by the Connecticut team, Gus Robotics (228). The 2^nd pick was a Freshmen team from Worcester Tech (2625C). Green Egg Robotics finished the day with only 1 loss (due to a missed match at the very start of the day) and was the recipient of the Excellence award. No Driver Skills or Programming Skills competitions were held at this event.