Middleton Parents, Students, and Sponsors:
We have come to the end of a very exciting 2011-2012 robotics season and this will be the last official newsletter for the Middleton High School Robotics Club. I want to start by thanking all of the coaches, parents, and sponsors for supporting our teams during the entire school year. The team could not have been successful without everyone’s support.
Only two things remaining: (1) have a party to celebrate our success and (2) start the process of organizing the club for next year.
(1) It was another exciting and successful year for the Middleton robotics teams. The following are some of our teams accomplishments:
a. We returned to the FRC competitions and the Middleton robot performed very well. Competition was tough at the Boca Raton regional qualifier. In fact, several of the Florida teams at the qualifier we attended ended up in the final matches of the FRC World Championship. It was no easy challenge to pull together a team after taking a year off of the FRC competitions. All of the FRC team members should be very proud of their accomplishments.
b. All three of our FTC teams performed very well at the qualifying tournaments and the state championship. Each of the FTC teams won an Inspire Award at one of the qualifying tournaments and we brought home a total of 25 FTC trophies during the 2011-2012 season. One of the Middleton teams was in the Winning Alliance in 6 of the 9 Florida qualifying tournaments and of course both Masquerade and Minotaur team up as the Winning Alliance at the Florida State Championship.
c. However, I have saved the most significant and amazing accomplishment for the last. Team 4997 Masquerade fought through some early mechanical problems to become a team member of the Winning Alliance. Middleton now has a World Championship Winning Alliance trophy. The FTC season started with over 2100 teams from around the world with 128 of those teams attending the World Championships in St. Louis. We competed against teams from the US, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, China, India, Taiwan, Romania, Australia, Russia, Saudia Arriba, and Singapore to become World Champions.
To celebrate our success, we will have Robotics Club party at the Wolf house (18806 Crescent Road, Odessa, FL) on May 26, 2012. The party will start at 1pm and end when the last person goes home. All family members are welcome to attend. I will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, and chicken for dinner. I would like to ask other team members to bring side dishes (salad, fruit, chips, beans, etc.) and drinks. Please RSVP by responding to this email by May 22nd. Also, I live on a lake north of Tampa and everyone should bring a bathing suit and towel.
(2) Our final activity of the 2011-2012 robotics season is to start preparing for next year. We are going to take a different approach to selecting team captains this year. All current team members that would like to become a team captain will need to complete the attached application. The team captains will be selected based on the information submitted on the application. Please complete and return the attached application to Scott Mead or Kathy Freriks by May 25, 2012.
Thank you again for all of the help and support and I hope everyone is looking forward to another successful robotics season next year. I look forward to seeing everyone at the robotics party on May 26, 2012. This will be our last chance to see many of the seniors that will be moving on to their next adventure. I would like to encourage all of the clubs seniors to make an effort to attend the party.
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