First Tech Challenge, part 2

After not qualifying for States at the Charlottesville Regional, Abby's FTC team attended their second regional in Centreville, VA (it was originally supposed to be in Reston two weeks earlier but was snowed out). The team members had worked hard in the 3 weeks between competitions to buff up their notebook and presentation and it paid off in a big way. In addition to being chosen for a strong alliance (which ended up being the winning alliance), they won the biggest award of the day - the Inspire Award. The Inspire Award winning team is the first (of three total teams) to advance to the state competition and they could not have been happier. They also won the control award (for innovative code) and got second place for the motivate award. Abby arrived back late on Saturday night and was ecstatic:

We watched the competition remotely, as it had a live stream. Benji was very excited to set this up

Here is the "official" write-up from Charlottesville City Schools:

And a group picture with their loot: