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| FRED IV and his new metal "friends" from the World Championship |
On April 16, 2011 Green Egg Robotics became the first high school team to have won 2 VRC World Tournament Championships. They now have won three world championship titles in three years having won the World Robot Skills title in 2010 along with a pair of World tournament titles in 2009 and 2011. In addition the team won the Science Division Amaze Award this year for their unique design and construction of their robot Fred IV. The 2011 event was held near Orlando, Florida at the Disney ESPN Wide World of Sports complex. Over 10,000 participants competed at the college, high school and middle school levels. 416 of the top qualified Vex teams representing 10 countries competed this year at Disney in the high school division.
Before an energized capacity filled stands, the Green Egg captained alliance (WASABI and Simbotics M) from Science division battled the Math Division championship alliance of Voc. Antonio Luchetti-Advanced, The Pioneers and the DiscoBots D. The series finished in 2 matches in the best of 3 series with the Science Division champions taking the title. Click
here to see a video of the final match.
In 2010, Green Egg Robotics finished as World Finalists as the top placing US team and won the World Robot Skills Championship. In 2009 the team won the VRC World Championship Tournament and were awarded the World Build Award.
This tournament capped a very successful driving, programming and building career for James who will be graduating from High School this year to attend college. He may be back in a part-time mentor's role next year along with Josef. Leland and Kieran will continue on with their roles as designers, builders and drivers. They will be taking on programming as well next year.
In a labor of love and a display of shear determination, Leland successfully created 4 customized 2.75" Mecanum wheels using a drill press, a band saw and several custom-made jigs. Originally built for the 2010-2011 Round Up game, the wheels were put aside early on in the season as the team changed plans to make way for their design for Fred IV, the eventual 2011 VRC World Champion robot.
Leland spent several days in the shop last fall with many highs and lows trying to create Mecanum wheels from VEX components before finally emerging with these 4 customized wheels designed to easily pass under the ladder rungs on the Round Up field. Though not used for the 2010-2011 season, they may reappear in the future on a competition robot, but for now they can only be seen driving around in a YouTube video found here.
