2012 Chesapeake Regional Results

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Note about Picasa: If you download the picasa app from google you can download the entire albums to your computer. The photos in these albums are provided courtesy of TechBrick Robotics and Jeff Jackson Photography (Day 3, Albums 2 and 3). Teams are free to use them without remuneration for marketing, fundraising and promotion.

Press Mentions

Contest Pits Robot Against Robot, WBAL-TV NBC Channel 11 News, 3/9/12

Western "RoboDoves" soaring in robotics, Baltimore Sun (front page!), 3/8/12

High school robotics teams take on regional competition this weekend, ExploreHarford.com, 3/8/12

Eldersburg Robo-Lions to Compete in 10th Annual Chesapeake Regional, Eldersburg Patch, 2/28/12

Chesapeake Regional "Rebound Rumble" FIRST Robotics Competition Results

The 10th anniversary Chesapeake Regional was held March 8-10, 2012 at the Baltimore Convention Center. We welcomed 63 teams from 11 states and the District of Columbia, including 34 from Maryland. More than 2,000 high school students, mentors, fans, educators and industry leaders packed the Baltimore Convention Center to witness robotics teams competing for spots at Championships held in St. Louis.

High school students worked with technical mentors over a six week period to design, build and program robots to play this season’s game, REBOUND RUMBLE™, a 3-on-3 basketball game. Each two-minute game climaxed with the robots attempting to balance on bridges at mid-court. The action in the elimination rounds on Saturday grew particularly intense as teams worked together in three-team alliances.

Seven teams advanced to the FIRST Championships, three of them from Maryland. The most prestigious honor at the competition, the Chairman’s Award, which recognizes the team that embodies the goals and purpose of FIRST and best represents a model for other teams to emulate, went for the second straight year to Team 836, the RoboBees from Dr. James A. Forrest Career & Technology Center High School in Leonardtown, Maryland.

The Regional Winners were an alliance of four teams led by Team 2377 C-Company from Chesapeake High School in Pasadena, Maryland. The winning alliance also included Team 181 from Hartford, Connecticut, Team 3419 from New York City, and Team 192 from Palo Alto, California. Other teams earning spots at the FIRST Championship included Team 27 from Clarkston, Michigan and rookie Team 3941 from Havre de Grace, Maryland.

FIRST co-founder Dr. Woodie Flowers of MIT and the Chairman of the FIRST Board of Directors, Walt Havenstein were featured guests at this 10th anniversary of the Chesapeake Regional. Baltimore’s Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and family members were among the spectators on Saturday.

Nearly 200 volunteers and judges from some of the most highly regarded organizations in the area, including Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and SAIC helped make this year’s Chesapeake Regional possible. Sponsors provide resources including time and talent from technical mentors, services, equipment, financial contributions, and volunteers.