Thomas Edison High School Earns First Honors At “Rookie” Regional

March 12, 2008

By Greg B.

KSTP Story

FRC Team 2513-Thomas Edison High School, Minneapolis, took first-place honors as part of the winning three-team alliance in FIRST’s “Michigan District Rookie Competition” pilot tournament, held March 7-8 at Kettering University, Flint, Mich. At this mini-regional, 36 rookie teams competed in their first-ever competition in a scaled-down version of a FIRST Overdrive Regional competition. FIRST decided to put on this rookie event to give first-year teams a taste of competition and to have them receive valuable advice from the dozen or so veteran teams on hand to mentor, but not compete.  In addition, because most rookie teams are so busy figuring out how to build a robot, few have time to fundraise seriously to be able to attend multiple regional events. FIRST wanted to be able to get them more competition time, and the Rookie Regional appears to have succeeded! Congratulations to Team 2513-Thomas Edison High School; Team 2609, Crusader-Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and Team 2619- H.H. Dow High School, Midland, Mich., for winning this inaugural event!