{"id":12156,"date":"2018-04-12T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2018-04-13T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:25:56","slug":"valencia-tigears-conclude-season-at-aerospace-valley-regional-robotics-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=12156","title":{"rendered":"Valencia TiGears conclude season at Aerospace Valley Regional Robotics Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia High School&#8217;s (VHS) TiGears robotics team spent\u00a0four days\u00a0over Spring Break competing in the Aerospace Valley Regional Robotics Competition in Lancaster, CA.\u00a0The team participated in 13 qualifying matches and placed 10 out of 36 teams. In one of\u00a0the team&#8217;s\u00a0matches, the TiGears alliance achieved the highest score of all the qualifying matches! They were also the alliance captain for the 6th seed in the quarterfinals against the 3rd seed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12158\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Valencia robotics.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe TiGears\u00a0played two really good quarterfinal matches with &#8220;Pawl&#8221; (that&#8217;s the robot&#8217;s name) performing as expected &#8211; placing a cube in the &#8220;switch&#8221; in auto mode, then transitioning into driver mode to gather additional cubes for delivery to other platforms (on the ground, three feet up and 8 feet up) and finally pulling itself off the ground using a hook. Unfortunately,\u00a0the TiGears alliance was out performed by the 3rd seed alliance, which concludes the build and competition season for\u00a0Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on an impressive season, TiGears!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12159\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Valencia robotics.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Valencia-High-TiGears-Final-Competition-4-9-18.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe 2017-18 TiGears team, under the direction of teacher, Hope Conant, included the following students:<br \/>\nAlex Navarrette<br \/>\nBrandon Wong<br \/>\nBryce Turcaz<br \/>\nDana Kwan<br \/>\nDaisy Lewin<br \/>\nDharma Gomez<br \/>\nFrancisco Acosta<br \/>\nGabriel Infante<br \/>\nHarry Pachchala<br \/>\nIan Lopez<br \/>\nJeremy Breen<br \/>\nJoshua Gonzalez<br \/>\nKellen Rivest<br \/>\nLauren Mard<br \/>\nLeslie Aguilar<br \/>\nNeelam Mistry<br \/>\nRachel Little<br \/>\n\u200bSam Magana<br \/>\nSarah Mard\u200b<br \/>\n\u200bYazen Balouk \u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia High School&#8217;s (VHS) TiGears robotics team spent\u00a0four days\u00a0over Spring Break competing in the Aerospace Valley Regional Robotics Competition in Lancaster, CA.\u00a0The team participated in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1727,131,300,1674,13,1503],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-first-robotics","tag-tigears","tag-tigers","tag-valencia","tag-valencia-high-school","tag-vhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}