Robotics Competition: Day I

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On the 15th of March 2012 a 16 member UTech team left the island at 6:00am on their journey to the 2012 IEEE Southeast Conference. The conference which is schedule to start tomorrow will feature have a host of features including Leadership Seminars, Tutorials on the latest technology in the field of engineering and above all a Student Competition. The student competition will commence on Saturday March 17, 2012 and includes a Technical Paper competition, Ethics Paper Competition, T-Shirt Design , Website Design, Software Competition and to top it off a Hardware or ROBOTICS Competition. 

The 16 member delegation is prepared to represent the university of Technology in ALL Six Competition. Team members and Contributors for the different competitions are

Ethics:

Latania Morrison - Team Leader

Farley Artwell

Chantell Grant

Cheyenne Powell

Haneepha Francis

Website

A team of SAPNA UTech Designers and programmers lead by Grevon Smith

T-Shirt Design

SAPNA Designer - Xavier Chambers 

Mechanical Engineer and Designer - Mark Newman

Represented at the Conference by - Shayne Addison

Software

SAPNA Programmers :

Basil Batchelor 

Otis Johnson

Diandra Johnson

Technical Paper Competition

Brent Richardson

Robotics Competition:

Kimroy Bailey - Team Leader

Chevaughn Robinson - SAPNA Programmer

Radchiv Guy 

Tarick Edwards 

The team left Jamaica at 6:00am and arrived at the Miami International Airport at 9:05am for their connection to Orlando Florida, USA. The Connection time was used to get some sleep after weeks of all nighters and of course some foood :)  

 The flight to Orlando was relatively short and I took the opportunity as I made random glance at the university crest embedded on my tie and jacket to be grateful for my tertiary institution. So frequently we consume ourselves with all the negative attributes we don't have time to say thanks for the fact that for every UTech Student there are at least 8 other equally qualified applicant who had to be denied to give us that right to say we belong to UTech.  The institution host a number of factors that has made it a premiere institution of choice for CARICOM nationals but even if the ratio of accepted student to total applicant  is the only reason to appreciate the institution,  I humbly ask God to give me the grace to make those students proud and cherish the UTech Brand the way they would if they had been given the opportunity.

Rainy route to Orlando

The flight to Orlando was cold and rainy and the combination of rain + floating above the clouds exceed reasons to give God thanks for life. It was simply amazing to watch the thick dark cloud kiss the sunshine beyond the horizon in the distant. The flight was short lived and one hour later we were again preparing for immigration and clearing our soon to be infamous robot. My next post will introduce our robot in full details for the very first time. 

Our final trip ended at about 3:00pm when the team checked it in the Wyndam Orlando Resort. 

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