Loveland, Ohio– The Mighty Coding Monkeys and Rookie teams 66554 Chicken Submarine, 66935 Underwater Coders, and 67024 Duckie Nuggies competed at the Lakota Ohio FIRST LEGO League Challenge Regional robotic tournament on Sunday.
Team 60480 Mighty Coding Monkeys won the Engineering Excellence Award and is advancing to the Loveland District Tournament. Rookie teams 66554 Chicken Submarine, 66935 Underwater Coders, and 67024 Duckie Nuggies also competed and represented Loveland well with new personal high scores and great judging performances.
The Loveland District Tournament will be held on January 18 at the Loveland Intermediate School and there will be 4 Loveland teams competing.
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland hosts the FIRST LEGO League District Tournament on Saturday, January 20. Teams have been working hard since August to build robots and prepare for competition. Loveland has an amazing robotics program supported by the Loveland Robotics Boosters. The FIRST LEGO League District Tournament will take place in the Loveland Intermediate School gym and include teams from around the region.
Team 10464 The Bionic Tigers at the KY State FTC Championship
The Bionic Tigers will be competing in the World Championship in Houston, TX from April 20-23. The World Championship features 160 of the top FTC Teams from over 6300 teams around the world, and this is the 3rd year in a row The Bionic Tigers have qualified for Worlds.
Loveland, Ohio – Loveland FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Teams 10464, The Bionic Tigers, and 5040, Nuts & Bolts, competed in the Ohio FTC Championship on March 5. The event, which was held remotely, included presentations to a panel of judges where teams had the opportunity to share the design and development of their robot, their outreach efforts to support STEM and robotics in their community, and their involvement with industry professionals. Teams also submitted scores for 6 robot matches, that were completed on their home fields, trying to score the maximum points possible in two and a half minute matches.
Based on their judging and robot performance, Team 5040, Nuts & Bolts, won the Motivate Award and 2nd place robot performance. The Motivate Award recognizes a team that makes a collective effort to make their team known throughout their community and school. Team 10464 won 4th place robot performance and the Think Award, which is the 2nd highest award for the event. The Think Award is given to the team whose Engineering Portfolio best reflects the team’s journey through the design and build process for their robot.
Team 10464 The Bionic Tigers also competed on March 12 at the Kentucky FTC State Championship at Murray St. University. This competition was their first in-person competition in 2 years due to Covid restrictions, and the event included teams from Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
At the start of the day, the Bionic Tigers and all competing teams presented to panels of judges for evaluation for awards. Teams also submitted a 15-page engineering portfolio summarizing all of their robot design and development, outreach work with other teams and the community, and connections with the professional STEM community. Following judging, they competed in 6 rounds of qualifying matches and were ranked 3rd in a very competitive field. The top 4 ranked teams became the alliance captains for the elimination rounds, and the Bionic Tigers selected two Kentucky teams as alliance partners. They lost a close match in the semi-finals, and the 1st seed alliance went on to win the robot portion of the competition.
Team 5040 Nuts & Bolts
To close out the exciting day, in the awards ceremony the Bionic Tigers won the top award of the event, the Inspire Award. This award recognizes the best all-around team that has shown success in designing and building a competitive robot and shares their experiences, enthusiasm, knowledge with other teams, sponsors, their community, and the judges. The Bionic Tigers also won Promote Award for their video answering the prompt “If there was one thing I would tell my younger self about FIRST it would be…”.
As the Inspire Award winner, the Bionic Tigers have advanced to the FTC World Championship in Houston, TX from April 20-23.
Loveland FTC teams are supported by many generous sponsors including Loveland American Legion Post 256, Sugar Creek Foods, Procter & Gamble, Standex Electronics, CBT Company, Kinetic Vision, Harlow Law Office, and Jarvis Global Investments.
The Bionic Tigers are seeking additional sponsors to help cover the travel costs for the World Championship in Houston. Please contact lovelandroboticsboosters@gmail.com if you are interested in helping sponsor the trip.
Loveland Robotics Boosters will be hosting Breakfast with the Bots, a pancake Breakfast fundraiser, on Saturday, April 9. Tickets are available at www.lovelandroboticsboosters.org.
Current sophomores can now apply for any of 30 programs at a Great Oaks Career Campus for the 2021-2022 school year.
Students in the 36 southwest Ohio school districts served by Great Oaks can attend during their junior and senior year, earning college credit and professional credentials while still in high school. Four campuses serve the region: Diamond Oaks in Dent, Laurel Oaks in Wilmington, Live Oaks in Milford, and Scarlet Oaks in Sharonville.
Career program options range from automotive technology to welding, from culinary arts to practical nursing, firefighting, advanced manufacturing, robotics, and more. Complete information about available paths can be found at greatoaks.com.
Students should apply by February 9 in order to get priority consideration for available spots. The application is available at application.greatoaks.com.
If you do not attend school or reside in one of our affiliate school districts, click the following link for procedures on how to apply as an out of district student.
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In the photo above is Loveland High School’s Team 5040
Back row (L to R) Jacob Chiarenzelli, Jackson Daumeyer, Loveland Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse, Bryce Reinhold, Nate Matuszak, Chad Royal; Middle row (L to R) Kai Reinhold, Haley Dues, Matt Spitzley, Ben Kavouras; Back row (L to R) Stephanie Spitzley, Garrett Royal, Cooper Baumgarth and Kat Sanderson
More Than 40,000 people attended to watch, including 15,000 students ages 6-18 Compete with Team-Built Robots
Detroit– Last week, more than 15,000 students from around the world traveled to Detroit, putting their innovation skills to the test at the annual FIRST Championship Presented by Qualcomm® Incorporated, held at the Cobo Center and Ford Field, including Team 5040 from Loveland High School.
In the championship Loveland 5040 went undefeated in qualifying rounds and won the Ochoa division semifinals. The team ended their season as one of the top 12 teams with an impressive record of 82-10.
The four-day event came down to a heart-pounding conclusion Saturday night in front of thousands of cheering fans at Ford Field when teams competed in match finals for the FIRST® Robotics Competition and FIRST® Tech Challenge world championships. Four teams from Kalamazoo, Michigan; Clarkston, Michigan; Kingston, Ontario, Canada; and State College, Pennsylvania, were the FIRST Robotics Competition Winning Alliance for this year’s game, FIRST POWER UPSM. Teams from Lexington, Massachusetts; Baden, Pennsylvania; and Lexington, Massachusetts, were the FIRST Tech Challenge RELIC RECOVERYSM Winning Alliance.
Loveland 5040 earned their spot in Detroit by first qualifying through Ohio as the State Champion. The team then competed in the North Super Regional with the best 72 teams from 13 states where Loveland 5040 finished in the finalist alliance advancing them to Detroit.
“After watching the students in action in Detroit – I think I can officially say Team 5040 has made me a robotics groupie,” said Loveland Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse, who Tweeted updates as the team progressed. “We are sincerely so very proud of this team, and we know they will return even bigger and better next year as the organization continues to grow.”
Students ages 6-18 participated in FIRST Championship Detroit. FIRST Championship, the world’s largest celebration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for students, kicked off last week with 15,000 students in Houston.
Among the participants, many earned honors for design excellence, competitive play, research, business plans, website design, and teamwork. A not-for-profit organization founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) inspires innovation and leadership in young people through engaging, team-based robotics challenges. Kamen invented of the segway.
In Detroit, 700 robotics teams from 37 countries across the four FIRST programs participated. More than 91,000 students on 3,650 teams from 37 countries competed during the 2018 season.
FIRST President Donald E. Bossi said: We’re marking the culmination of another fantastic FIRST season, and once again, we’ve had fantastic growth. More than half-a-million young people directly participated in our programs, which engaged 61,000 teams, an impressive 23 percent increase from just last year. We will not stop [growing] until all students have access to the education and experiences that FIRST programs provide.
“On behalf of my team I want to say a very special thank you to Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse and LHS Principal Peggy Johnson for traveling to Detroit to watch us compete,” said LHS student and team member Garrett Royal. “They are some of our biggest supporters, and we are grateful to them. We also want to thank former athletic director, Juliann Renner, who supported us like we were one of her athletic teams, and LHS Teacher Phil Marchal and volunteer Mark Chast for starting and coaching this team seven years ago. We are thankful for your vision and leadership that has touched so many students over the years.”
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, addressed FIRST supporters: What you do right here at FIRST is extraordinarily important. It’s not just about robotics. It’s not just about science. It’s about people. It’s about collaborating. It’s about making it happen. It’s about forming teams, mentoring teams, sharing your experience.Whether you are a volunteer, a donator, a sponsor, a supporter, a participant, a parent, a teacher, you make a difference, and here we just use the incredible world of science and technology to do so and we prepare the future in so many different ways.
FIRST Tech Challenge students learn to think like engineers. Teams build robots from a reusable kit of parts, develop strategies, document their progress, and compete head to head. In the 2017-18 game, FIRST RELIC RECOVERY, teams work in an alliance to go on a robot adventure. The goal is to score more points than the opposing alliance during 150 seconds of game play that includes autonomous and driver-controlled periods.
Their performance at the FIRST World Championship earned Loveland 5040 an exclusive invitation to compete over the summer at the Maryland Technical Invitational (MTI). At MTI teams from all over the world will meet for a weekend of competition and learning. Scientists and engineers from the Space Sector of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will speak about two of their cutting-edge missions, New Horizons and Dragonfly.
Team 5040, Nuts & Bolts, Loveland, Ohio was a Division Finalists in the Ochoa Division:
“It has been an amazing year, and we couldn’t have done it without incredible support,” said LHS Teacher and Robotics Coordinator Amy Stewart. “I want to send a huge thank you to Coach Chad Royal, Mentors Peter Kavouras, Eric Spitzley and Chris Reinhold.”
Want to be a part of Loveland Robotics?
The Loveland Robotics Teams are very grateful for all businesses that support them and we are looking for additional sponsors. Sponsorship can take many forms, from expertise in a specific field to materials to financial assistance.
Our Team Business Plan provides information about all aspects of our FTC teams. Questions about the Business Plan or any of the Teams can be sent to Amy Stewart at stewaram@lovelandschools.org.
Loveland, OH– Loveland Robotics Team 5040 has found success this season, leading them to compete against teams from over sixty different countries at FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) worlds. Loveland will compete against 120 teams with an average of ten players per team. The competition in Detroit, Michigan is a result of three local tournaments and a state championship where the team was chosen to advance.
The team has been preparing since September, The team meets three nights a week, and individuals often meet outside of officially scheduled robotics meetings. The team has been perfecting their robot for eight months and their hard work will pay off in the attendance of the World Competition from April 24th-28th.
Loveland Robotics Team 5040 Back Row: Jackson Daumeyer, Ben Kavouras, Bryce Reinhold, Garrett Royal, Jacob Chiarenzelli, Matthew Spitzley, Nate Matuszak, Kat Sanderson Front Row: Kai Reinhold, Haley Dues, Stephanie Spitzley, Cooper Baumgarth
“This competition gives us the opportunity to interact with the next generation of STEM professionals while providing a unique challenge to help us grow in all aspects from building a robot to communication skills,” Senior, Garrett Royal explained.
Team 5040 prepares to test new changes to their robot
FTC Robotics is an organization backed by tech and STEM companies that challenge 7-12th-grade students to design, build, program and operate robots in order to overcome a specific obstacle. The program aims to help teach students about the growing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields and encourage improvement in communication, problem-solving and leadership. While building robots is at the core of the program, students must also fight for sponsorships and coordinate money management.
There are roughly forty students in the Loveland Robotics program, and 12 on team 5040. Within 5040, there are subteams focused on building, programming and business. Each subteam has a leader who keeps their group on-task and moving forward. The teams are overseen by Loveland engineering teacher, Ms. Amy Stewart.
The robotics team meets on a Sunday afternoon to improve and plan
The mechanical guts of team 5040’s 2018 build
Each year in September, a new FTC challenge, or “game”, is announced. This year, teams compete in a game called Relic Recover. The teams are challenged to stack cubes called Glyphs into a 3×4 “Cryptobox”. Specific patterns allow teams to earn more points. Additionally, there is a plastic figure known as a “relic” that the robot is programmed to pick up and move over a wall in order to increase points. The goal is to move the relic as far as possible.
“We do a lot of drive practice. We run match after match, trying to get faster and more consistent at each element of the game. This has helped us learn how to manage problems and what to expect during actual competition. Our drivers have been able to master their controls, which is something a lot of other teams do not have as much practice in,” Senior, Haley Dues explained.
Team 5040 practices building a Cryptobox. Different brown/white patterns are placed into the vertical 3×4 box for varying points.
Last year, the two robotics teams also found success– Team 10464 competed in the State Tournament for the second straight year, and Team 5040 traveled to the World Championship marking the first time in Loveland history a team has competed on the world level.
An arm extends a piece of the challenge over the arena wall
Although the prize for winning worlds is just a trophy (and bragging rights), the team sees it as an exciting opportunity.
“Every robot has something unique about it and it’s fun to talk to people who are just as nerdy about robots as you,” Bryce Reinhold explained in regards to the Worlds competition.
Application packets for the Loveland robotics team can be picked up by interested high schools students from Ms. Stewart in room 128 and are due April 20th.
Jarvis Global is an investment advisory firm in Symmes Township, Ohio which offers private portfolio management and retirement services to high net worth individuals.
(Top Row, L to R) Nate Matuszak, Matt Spitzley, Bryce Reinhold, Brayden Watts, Mitchell McManis, Emily Kiehl, Nick Rasmussen, Jacob Chiarenzelli, and Jackson Daumeyer; (Second Row, L to R) Stephanie Spitzley, Kai Reinhold, Kat Sanderson, Lauren Timmins, Zoe Long, Evan Berryman, Haley Dues, Cooper Baumgarth, Ben Kavouras; (Bottom Row) Garrett Royal and Nathan Stewart (Photo Credit: Paula Berryman)
Teams 5040 and 10464 to compete February 17
remain undefeated in Ohio!
Both Loveland High School (LHS) First Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics teams – 5040 and 10464 – are headed to the state robotics competition! Both teams competed Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Cincinnati Qualifying Tournament at Walnut Hills High School. After competing in 26 matches in three qualifying tournaments, LHS Team 5040 remains undefeated in Ohio! Additionally, LHS Team 5040 and Team 10030, 7 Sigma, from Cincinnati scored the third highest score in the world!
I am so proud of the teams, and expect a strong showing at the state competition
“These accolades are a result of the hard work and dedication of the student team members and mentors; the program has evolved and expanded to meet the needs of our students,” said LHS Teacher and Robotics Coordinator Amy Stewart. “I am so proud of the teams, and expect a strong showing at the state competition!”
“I think it is also important to say thank you to our sponsors. The robotics program would not be possible without the generous donations our teams receive from Adobe, American Legion, Blue Chip, Fraternal Order of the Eagles, Intelligrated, Johnson Controls, MH Equipment, Jarvis Global Investments, Chipotle, Paula Berryman Photography, Basco, and The Hershey Company.”
5040 received the following awards:
Design, Innovate and Think Award Finalist
Winner of Inspire Award and Winning Alliance
10464received the following awards:
Motivate, Control and Connect Award Finalist
Winner of Think Award and Finalist Alliance
Both teams compete at the FTC Robotics State event February 17, 2018, at iSpace in Sharonville on the Scarlet Oaks Campus.
Watch this video where the students talk about the program at Loveland High School and how they compete.
LHS Robotics Team 5040 at a successful competition in Dayton Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017.
Team 5040 & Team 10464 to compete at FTC tournament in February
State bound!
LHS Robotics Team 10464 ready to advance to state from the Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017, competition in Newark.
Loveland High School’s (LHS) First Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics teams had exceptional performances Saturday, Dec. 9, at two separate competitions; both will advance to the FTC Robotics State Tournament in February.
“I’m thrilled for our students,” said LHS Project Lead the Way Teacher and Robotics Advisor Amy Stewart. “Loveland’s two FTC Robotics teams started the Ohio season strong. Both 5040 and 10464 won multiple awards – they deserve to advance to the state tournament, and we are all proud of what they have achieved.”
LHS Robotics Team 5040 competed in Dayton, serving as the captain of the Winning Alliance, which secured the team’s advancement to the state tournament. They also won the First Place Design Award and Second Place Control Award.
LHS Robotics Team 10464 competed in Newark, winning the Second Place Promote Award, Second Place Control Award, Third Place Innovate Award, Second Place Connect Award, and Second Place Think Award. Team 10464 also won the coveted First Place Inspire Award which earned them advancement to the state tournament.
L3 team members include: (Back Row, L to R) Assistant Coach Carol Case, Jeremy Case, Jackson Abram, Cameron Petrella, Josh Dues, Luke Perry, Coach Leslie Kirk-Smith; (Front Row, L to R) Elias Williams, Sean Behling, Ben Beseler, Vlad Breech
Loveland, Ohio– Loveland Middle School (LMS) L3 (Loveland Lego Legends), a FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Robotics Team, recently earned a new title: First Place Robot Design. Students won the award at the FLL Tournament hosted by Sycamore Saturday, December 2. The L3 team, which includes two out-of-district students, will join four other teams from the tournament to advance to the District Tournament at iSpace on January 20.
“We are extremely proud of our robotics students!” said LMS Principal Chuck Ogdan. “ALL of these students are strong Tigers who embody the Loveland Middle School four-core values: Grit, Rise, Innovation, and Leadership. We wish them the very best as they move forward to the district tournament. Go Tigers!”
Clermont County Partnership Celebration Awards given to LHS Teacher Amy Stewart & Xavier University Center for Innovation
Loveland Interim Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse presenting LHS Teacher & Robotics Sponsor Amy Stewart with her Career Prep Educator of the Year Award.
Clermont County, Ohio – Loveland High School (LHS) Teacher and Robotics Sponsor Amy Stewart has been named a Career Prep Educator of the Year. Stewart was honored by the Clermont County Educational Service Center’s Partnership Celebration Tuesday, Sept. 19.
The awards are part of the Clermont Chamber Foundation’s Work Readiness Initiative – a collaborative effort of business and community leaders who partner with educators to prepare students to be “work ready” through training and mentoring; resource and expertise sharing; and filling the needs of educators and students as they arise.
“The Work Readiness Initiative is a valuable partnership between education and business, and we commend the Clermont Chamber Foundation for their forward-thinking in designing this program,” said Loveland Interim Superintendent Dr. Amy Crouse. “For our district – this was an opportunity to recognize a true classroom leader. Mrs. Stewart has poured enormous amounts of time and energy into helping create a world-recognized Robotics program at Loveland High School; no one could have deserved this award more, and we congratulate her.”
Additionally, during the same ceremony, Xavier University Center for Innovation and specifically Dr. Tom Merrill were honored as Business Partners of the Year to the Loveland City School District.
“As we look to provide an innovative learning experience for our students, we have found a game-changing business partner in Dr. Merrill and the Xavier University Center for Innovation,” said David Knapp, Loveland District Director of Technology and Innovation. “From use of their innovative technology, to providing our staff and students opportunities to connect with innovators from across the city of Cincinnati – we are thankful for the work they have done to provide ideas, opportunities and networking for us as our school district enters some new worlds in regards to the experience that we strive to provide for all students.”
