MindStorm Troopers Team History

2006 Season, Nano Quest: Our fourth season began with winning the 1st place Robot Performance and 1st place Champions awards at the Grandview regional tournament. At the State Championships for Ohio, we again won the 1st place Champions and Robot Performance awards. We scored 3 perfect 400 point robot rounds! We were able to represent Ohio at the World festival again this year, and took home 1st place Robot Performance (with three 400s again) and 3rd place Champion's! We were only the second team in FLL history to score that highly at World, and the first team to ever win 1st place robot two years in a row. Built On The Rock, an awesome team from New Jersey, was also able to score the unprecedented three 400s, so both teams were awarded 1st place in the robot. We had a blast this year meeting new teams from all around the world. There were 104 teams from 39 countries invited to World this year, out of the estimated 8000 teams that competed worldwide.

2006 World Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 3nd place champion's award

2006 State Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 1st place champion's award

2006 Regional Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 1st place champion's (overall) award

2005 Season, Ocean Odyssey: During our team's third year, we won the 1st Place Robot Performance Award, and 1st Place Director's Award (best overall) at the Columbus Regional competition. At the Ohio Championship Tournament, we won the 2nd Place Robot Performance Award, and the 1st Place Director's Award. Because of this, we were invited for the first time to represent Ohio at the World Championship, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. At the World championships we placed 1st place in the robot game, and also received the 2nd place director's award!

2005 World Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 2nd place director's award

2005 State Tournament: 2nd place robot performance, 1st place director's award

2005 Regional Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 1st place director's award

2004 Season, No Limits: During the 2004 season, our team's second year, we won the 1st Place Robot Performance Award and 2nd Place Director's Award at our Regional competition in December. It was our team's first time being invited to the Ohio Championship Tournament, and there we won the 1st Place Robot Performance Award (with a score of 373), and 2nd Place Director's Award in January.

2004 State Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 2nd place director's

2004 Regional Tournament: 1st place robot performance, 2nd place director's

2003 Season, Mission to Mars: This was our team's very first year. We competed in the Columbus regional and, well, there were a lot of things to learn! We had a couple of strong missions but not enough to place in the robot game. We did win the "Research Quality" award for the project portion of the competition!

2003 Regional Tournament: 1st place research quality