YAY REGIONALS!

Hey Guys!  Sorry it took so long to post, this week has kind of been hell week at school.  However, we went to WPI this weekend, or really, we took WPI by storm.  Having a regional at a college is an awesome idea for FIRST.  It gave students a chance to see the school and its surrounding areas.  I know that after visiting again I have fallen even more in love with the great campus and curriculum.  So our team went, and on Thursday we were one of the few teams with a working robot.  Although our minibot deployment system didn't work, our robot was phenomenal.  Our scoring mechanism is consistent and strong, and we were able to lead our alliances to many victories.  Never has Team Paragon been a force to reckon with, but this competition we were a target.  After choosing the 8th seed alliance for the final matches, we won our first match against the NUMBER ONE! alliance.  This was an awesome victory, but soon enough they realized that they needed to stop us.  In the next two matches, the other alliance's defense improved and we were shut down.  Hopefully for Hartford we'll be able to get a minibot and we will be even higher in the ranks!  This was an amazing competition for the robot.  However, our students were just as good, if not better.  We won imagery award and our spirit was high the ENTIRE weekend.  Everyone noticed us as a team and congratulated us on our performance.  In my opinion, it was the best regional since 2008.  Let's keep it up team!

And so the madness continues

After an almost flawless ship, the team has been busy with driver practice and making little last-minute adjustments.  We're looking forward to the packing session, followed by WPI!  Everyone is excited to get to the competition that we have be working towards all summer.  With our strong drive team and an (almost) finished robot, we have a shot at doing well!  Team Paragon has an annual drive team test, given to everyone who wants to be on the pit crew or on drive team.  This year the drive team consists of Zac as driver, Joe as coach, Greg as operator, and Dijon as human player.  I personally think we have a good shot at doing well this year at the competitions.  It definitely snuck up on us, but we're ready to go!