One last picture at the bus station on the way to Brazil. With thanks to Dean Judd for the photo.
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World Science Festival
The Northern Bites were recently invited to the World Science Festival at NYU in NYC. We did some demoes and some hands-on activities with kids. It was a lot of fun. The crowds grew throughout the day until at the last demo of the day we actually ran into problems. Parents were fighting with parents over who should be where so that their kids could see the show. It got bad enough that the organizers had us stop the demo early because they were afraid for the safety of the kids up front. Sort of like being at a Who concert in the 1970s except with robots.
RoboCup in the Smithsonian Magazine
Nice article with some key quotes by Northern Bites friend/competitor Dan Lee here
Semi-FInal vs. Penn
A painful loss with squandered scoring chances and a second half bug that had some of our players thinking they were penalized when in fact Penn was being penalized.
Where we started
Video: Prelim match vs. Penn
Video: Third place win vs. Austin Villa
With bonus second half commentary from Octavian.
Northern Bites Take 3rd at U.S. Open
We finished off the weekend by defeating Texas 1-0 to finish in 3rd after losing a nail biter 1-0 to Penn in the semi-final. Penn ended up winning the championship with a win over Miami. The close scored show just how evenly matched the teams were. Ultimately Penn probably deserved to win because they had one area where they were clearly superior to the other teams – their motion kick was spectacular. As for us, we improved a lot over the weekend, identified areas for improvement, and should be one of the top teams going into Brazil.
We will be posting videos over the course of the next few days
First 60% of RoboEireann Game
Sorry, but the camera ran out of memory. We have some later footage that we’ll add some other time.