2nd NHS League event

  On Saturday, November 17, 2012, 8701/8701X again traveled out to Mount Michael for the second day of the Nebraska High School league. We had a great morning. Team 8701 was undefeated for the day (5-0-0). This means 8701 is 8-2-0 overall. Team 8701X had some difficulties with their intake early on, but still managed to come out 4-1-0, making them 7-3-0 overall. There will be a third event on December 15, which 8701 will not attend. At this event the rest of the teams who don't have 10 matches yet will compete again. After this we will know how the standings are for the elimination rounds on January 12, 2013!! Great job so far to all the teams in the league! 

  Once again, the event page is here.

Papillion-La Vista VRC Tournament

  Saturday, November 10, 2012 was the first tournament of the year in Nebraska! Teams 8701 and 8701X did extremely well. After some great qualification matches, 8701 was ranked first overall (3-0-0) and 8701X was ranked second overall (3-0-0). In alliance selections 8701 picked 8701X. We then selected Team 656A Sasquatch, from Crete High School to round out the the #1 alliance.
  Our alliance breezed through the quarterfinals, and after a long wait, competed in the semifinals. Unfortunately, we had some technical problems and lost some very close matches.  
  We had some good news after that however, as Team 8701X was awarded the Design Award! Congratulations to all the teams who competed at the tournament and good luck the rest of the year!!

First VEX event of the year

Competition season has arrived! Teams 8701 and 8701X traveled to their first event on the morning of November 3, 2012. The first day of the Nebraska High School league was held at Mount Michael. We had a few mistakes, but we learned a lot from the competition setting about we are going to need to change on our robots. Both teams still did very well, currently 8701X is ranked 5th overall, and 8701 is ranked 6th. We hope to move up in the standings next time, November 17th.

Pictures will be up in the 'Media' section shortly.

The page for the Nebraska High School League can be found on robotevents.com here. This page also contains all rankings.