Pictures taken while serving as one of the mentors for the Bartlesville area high schools' participation in the FIRST national robotics competition.
It is part of Tri County Tech pre-engineering program. Team 2165 website: http://team2165.weebly.com
Archived videos of some of the competitions are here: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/2165
Oklahoma Robotics website: http://www.okrobotics.org/ National FIRST website: http://www.usfirst.org
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The 2007 regional competition was in Kansas City, March 15 - 17. Results in KC:
1. Ranked 6th out of 44 entries based on qualifying rounds.
The top 8 could choose two others for allies in a double elimination tournament. We were chosen by the number 2 team and we accepted.
2. Our alliance made it to the final round, lost, and was awarded the finals trophy.
3. Awarded All Star Rookie team of the 15 entered, qualifying us to enter the international competition in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome, April 12-14.
In Atlanta we obtained 9th place out of 86 teams in the CURIE field (one of the four fields), got bumped up to 8th when a higher team was picked for an alliance.
We chose two partners for one of the 8 alliances to go in to the quarter finals where we were eliminated after the first two matches.
Pretty good for a rookie team!
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2008 - Oklahoma City Regional March 20-22
We placed 6th out of 39 in the qualifying rounds and were invited by the 3rd place team to be in an alliance for the elimination matches.
We were the winning alliance and went to Atlanta again where we won 3 out of 7 qualifying matches.
And thanks to Scott Nelson who gave us permission to use this image for promotion of our robot 'Scarab' . http://bugguide.net/node/view/124304
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2009 Oklahoma City Regional February 26-28
Placed about 18th out of 50 in the qualifying rounds.
Won the Delphi “Driving Tomorrow’s Technology” Award which "celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature"
Ponca City 976 and Tulsa Memorial High 932 asked that we join them in an alliance which then made it to the semi-finals.
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2010 Oklahoma City Regional competition: We came home empty handed.
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2011 Oklahoma City Regional competition:
Team 2165 took 2nd out of 52 teams in the qualifying rounds and was captain of the alliance (including Team 476 of Ponca City)
that got 2nd place in the final 8 alliance double elimination. Amazing for a robot that did not work going in and never got to do a practice round.
Also, we got the trophy for Creative Design of a robot - sponsored by Xerox.
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2012 Oklahoma City Regional competition:
We placed 7th out of 54 teams in the qualifying rounds. Ponca City (2nd place) invited us to join them and Drumright as one of the eight alliances to participate
in the double elimination finals. Our alliance went to the final match and lost, getting us the Finalist Award
Also, we were given the Industrial Design Award - sponsored by General Motors - for our simple and effective design.
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2013 Oklahoma City Regional competition:
Team 2165 took 2nd out of 58 teams in the qualifying rounds and was captain of the alliance that got 2nd place in the final 8 alliance double elimination.
They got the General Motors Engineering Design Award and were given a wildcard place at the Internationals in St Louis.
They also received $10,000 in scholarships from Oklahoma State University.

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Future photos will be at the team website.