Our hard work at Howell and Traverse City paid off! The AdamBots were invited to the 2015 Michigan State Championship along with 101 other top teams in the state. The event was held in Grand Rapids at the Deltaplex Arena. This year was unique in that instead of one field, States now had two fields that were to be played on, named Genius and Ford field in honor of two main sponsors of the event. One field played at a time, but two fields allowed for the next match to get set up on the field and ready to go right after the previous match ended. With 204 matches to play, it’s no wonder this system had to be adopted! Our qualification scores are as follows:

116, 178, 33, 133, 176, 112, 158, 112, 94, 149, 212, 136

We finished up with an average of 134.08. Although we weren’t an alliance captain, we were a first pick by the sixteenth alliance, who was captained by 3618, Petoskey Paladins. We collaborated and invited team 3452, the GreengineerZ, to our alliance. We were eliminated in the eighth-finals, with scores 160 and 180. Despite this, we did well enough to earn a pass to the St. Louis World Championship.Our pit and drive team also got the opportunity to meet FIRST founder Dean Kamen and Michigan governor Rick Snyder! Our Dean’s List winner from Howell, Vishnu Rengaraj, didn’t win at the championship, but we’re still so proud and lucky to have him. The same goes for Telva McGruder, our Woodie Flowers nominee. Next week we’ll be making a ten hour pilgrimage to St. Louis to compete with the best of the best in the world. Written by Sydney Micklas

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