The Maine Event 2011

On Saturday, February 5, 2011, the Green Egg Robotics Team (a.k.a. GER) made a last-minute schedule change due to the weather and headed up to Bangor, Maine to compete in the Maine State Vex Robotics Championship.   17 teams competed in the Bangor Civic Center auditorium on a beautiful day up in North country.  Five of the originally scheduled 22 teams canceled due to weather related concerns about travel.  Once again, the UMaine run event was impressive in its organization and commitment to developing the Vex robotics program in the state of Maine.

Infinite Improbability, Cape Robotics and GER

This was the second event of the Roundup season for GER. The team packed up Fred IV at 2:30 AM and arrived at the Bangor Civic Center at 7:30 AM ready for competition.  The 2 elevated fields were running matches all day long.  In the end Fred IV went undefeated on the day with an 11-0-0 record keeping the undefeated season record intact.  The winning alliance was made up of GER (Team 44), Infinite Improbability Robotics (Team 1764A) from Yarmouth, Maine, and a middle school team, Cape Robotics (56B) from Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Infinite Improbability won the Excellence award and the Create Award.  Cape Robotics (56B) won the Programming Skills and Greely High School (377) won the Robot Skills Award.  GER won its very first Amaze award.

Fred IV will be returning to competition on March 4 and 5, 2011 at the mid-Atlantic Vex Championship in Westminster, Maryland.   This will be the largest tournament that the team has competed in this year with top-notch teams representing Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey scheduled to compete. The GER robot will be sporting more than 10 new upgrades from the robot that competed in Maine.