Miracle Workerz News Archive!
May 14, 2007
MOE Visits the Whitehouse!
|
MOE visited the White House on April 30. We could not reveal this information to the public due to National security reasons, and a promise that we made to FIRST not to let the word out. At the right, you can see our picture in the White House with President Geroge W. Bush! Please visit our MOE at the White House page for more information. |
 (Custom).jpg)
|
April 16, 2007
MOE Returns from Atlanta!
|
MOE has returned from Atlanta, Georgia! The championship matches at the Georgia Dome were amazing. MOE competed with heart, and each and everyone of us had fun there. Congratulations to each team that participated, good job everyone for making it to Atlanta! Though MOE did lose in the quarter finals, we were proud of our team and our robot, and especially when we were announced the winners of the National 2007 Chairman's Award! We all had a great time there, and can't wait to see what happens next year. See you all again! |
|
April 5, 2007
Philadelphia Personal Recognition Awards!
|
The Philadelphia Regional Awards are now up! These rewards were given out to the various teams that participated at the FIRST event at Drexel University, and made this competition one to remember, though they may have not recieved some sort of recognition for it. Please visit our 2007 PRA Awards page. |
|
April 2, 2007
The Philly Regional!
|
MOE enjoyed being back at our "home" regional, Philadelphia, held at Drexel University. There are teams in Philly that we have met for our eight years in FIRST -- for our mentors they've become old friends, and for our students, new ones. We were proud of our team's performance on the field, and in the stands and pits. We enjoyed choosing teams to present MOE awards to, and had a hard time picking the best. For our team, after winning the Website Award on Friday we were pleased to win the Regional Chairman's Award on Saturday. Now it's on to Atlanta! |
|
March 25, 2007
The Personal Recognition Awards!
|
For the past three years MOE has been awarding those individuals who make FIRST events truly memorable, and yet, never seem to have any kind of recognition. For every regional that MOE attends, we make a few of these special buttons. Then, people who are believed to deserve a button by others at the regional, are presented with one. The person giving the button fills out a simple form and turns it into Pit Admin, so that after the regional, the results are published on our Web site. Check out our 2007 PRA Awards page. |
|
March 14, 2007
MOE returns from Rochester Regional
On sunday, at about 1:00 AM, MOE returned to HQ after the long trip back from Rochester, New York. The Finger Lakes Regional Competition, held at RIT was an amazing one. Every match was great, and every team that participated brought suspense, challenge, and excitement to the matches. MOE also had a great time with the various teams that participated in the regional. We can't wait to see them again at Atlanta.
March 5, 2007
MOE Pit Loaded for Rochester
|
The MOE pit and our equipment was loaded in the truck ready for its trip to the FIRST Finger Lakes Regional at Rochester! |
March 4, 2007
MOE Open House
Today we held an open house at MOE HQ. Families of our students came to see what the MOE students were doing, and how Firefox, our practice robot, was working. Some people who came weren't even related to our current students, but were thinking of possible future MOE team members, which is a good thing. Everyone was welcome to this open house.
Each of our sub-teams was shown to the visitors and the jobs of the groups were explained to them, and they saw the robot in action. We had great results with our open house.
March 1, 2007
MOE Student Achieves More
Today it was announced that Morgan, a member of the MOE Programming sub-team and the MOE Competition Team, received a $1,250 scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers. This is a great achievement, and everyone at MOE is happy for her success.
Not only did Morgan gain the SWE scholarship, she also received a FIRST scholarship to the Florida Institute of Technology for $3,000. She went through an application process, including an interview, and received great results. Congratulations to Morgan, and good luck in your future!
February 22, 2007
MOEzilla revealed!
You all may have been wondering what MOE would have in store for 2007.
Well, today MOE reveals the new bot to the public. We won't show how this robot works, you will just have to find out at future competitions. Please visit our See MOEzilla's page. for a better view!
February 20, 2007
MOEzilla is now shipped!
After MOEzilla was put away in its crate, it was ready to ship. MOE is looking forward to Rochester, and also looking forward to the competition that is ahead of us. Our box will be the den for MOEzilla as it is being transported to Rochester, as it awaits for it's future competitors...
February 19, 2007
MOEzilla is now Crated Up and Ready to Ship!
MOEzilla, MOE's robot for 2007, has been completed, tested and crated. Now we have our box ready for Rochester, which will be MOEzilla's home for the next few weeks. Here is our team captain preparing the box for the arrival of MOEzilla.
February 18, 2007
MOEmentum is Upgraded with New Features!
Our database for new teams is now indexed by topic as well as by week. You can now follow your topic of interest through the whole build season with one mouse click. Go to The MOEmentum page to see more.
February 8, 2007
A New Name is Born!
After a very intense competition and poll, we finally were able to come to the last two names for our new robot. MOE members had a very long list of proposed names, and the top two were chosen on the 7th of February. These two were MOEzilla and ArackMOEphobia. MOEster-Chief, though a great name, hit third place. On this date, February 8, the chosen name for our robot was MOEzilla!
Also, after many logos were submitted we voted for one that seemed the best for MOE. To the right is the new MOE logo! The 8 gears represent the 8 years that the MOE team has been around. You'll be seeing this logo on our shirts and even animated on our Web site!
January 27, 2007
FIRST State Lego League Tournament
The FIRST State Lego League Tournament was held at the Bob Carpenter Center on the campus of the University of Delaware. JFLL, FLL, and FTC events were held simultaneously. Many teams participated, and the event was exciting. Each team truly did the best that they could, and all of their ideas and accomplishments were truly great ones. Congratulations to every participating and winning team! Also a big congratulations to the winner of the Tournament Volunteer of the Year Award, Vince Keedy! Good job!
January 22, 2007
MOE Forums!
The MOE Forums are up for 2007! Each MOE team member has an ID and password to access our private Team section. Others are welcome to register to participate in the public forums. Come and join the forums -- let's hear from you.
January 21, 2007
MOE in the Newspaper!
Today was another busy day at MOE when a reporter came in representing the five regional papers of the Community News. The subteams that make up MOE were interviewed by reporter Kevin Barrett, shown here with our Programming Team. Each of our teams will be covered in this weekly series of articles. This is definitely a nice thing, not only because our students are being featured, but also our team will be recognized throughout the community. You can visit the Community News site at www.communitypub.com
January 15, 2007
MOE at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
MOE went out this day to celebrate MLK Day. Martin Luther King Jr. was truly an honorable man. There is no possible way to ignore this man, and what things he did that no one else could do. We demonstrated TerMOEnator, our 2006 robot, and also VEX robots. It was a fun day for MOE students, and the kids had fun too during the whole event. That's always a good thing to see.
January 6, 2007
Kick-off and Brainstorming!
2006 is over, and the new year is here. With a new game put into play, and the challenge that this new game is expected to bring, MOE is getting ready for the new world that lies ahead. The competition is something to truly look forward to. While working on our robot, we're also figuring out a name for it, and a few good ones have come up already. We look forward to seeing all the teams at future competitions. Good luck to everyone out there!
The MOE Web Team has also begun to think about how to enhance our website for greater results when it comes to your viewing pleasure. More content will be added for the new year, so continue to visit.
April 15, 2006
The MOE-sponsored 5K was a great success, with 184 runners enjoying a beautiful Saturday morning! See complete race results on line, and check out the details of our first 5K Robot Run/Walk.
April 12, 2006
As part of our effort to make our website accessible to anyone, we have scrutinized every inch of our site and read all of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. After taking the appropriate steps to modify our site to conform to their suggestions, we have, per their guidelines, declared all pages on this site to have Level A Conformance. If you have any comments or suggestions for further accessibility improvement, please don't hesitate to e-mail them to our webmaster.
April 3, 2006
Congratulations to John Larock for being awarded the coveted Jefferson's Award for Public Service.
March 31, 2006
Philidelphia Regional was even more fun than Pittsburgh Regional. All of the teams were a pleasure to be around, and the FIRST culture was thriving. Congratulations to Mr. Enslen for winning the Volunteer of Year Award. He does tons of work to help multiple events run smoothly. Also, congratulations to the Web Team, for winning the Web Design Award.
March 23, 2006
The MOE Forums are back in action for 2006! Join the existing threads or start new ones. MOE Team Members have IDs and passwords. Others can register for access to the public forums.
March 11, 2006
MOE had a great time at the Pittsburgh Regional! We are pleased to announce that we received the Regional Chairman's Award, as well as the Imagery Award. John Larock, our team leader for seven years and counting, received the Regional Woodie Flowers Award for his incredible dedication to Team 365 and his extraordinary commitment of time and energy that have made our team what it is today.
Pittsburgh 2006 Highlights Photos from Pittsburgh
March 6, 2006
Our super custom pit gets loaded for its trip to Pitt...
February 28, 2006
Disaster! Our site was down for about twenty-one hours, due to a server problem. Everything is fine now -- however, it did give us a bit of a scare. (Weeks later... it actually took a couple weeks to undo some of the effects of the incident)
February 24, 2006
We would like to express our gratitude toward Team 1394 - "Mastery Charter Robotics: Juggernaut" for inducting Team 365 into their Hall of Fame. It is wonderful to see that new teams have benefitted from our inspiration.
Team 1394's Hall of Fame Team 1394 Website
February 20, 2006
Ship is here, and the robot is safely packed away in our famous black and green crate. We are very pleased with the new packing material that was used, even if it does tend to be on the talkative side.
February 19, 2006
All the parents of team members got to see the team hard at work on the robot at our open house on Sunday. We have gotten positive feedback from the attendees, who are just as excited as we are to see the robot in good, working condition.
February 14, 2006
Valentine's Day is here, and robot love is in the air! While the rest of the world is celebrating with pink and red hearts, here at MOE we are signing our love notes (to our robot) with green and black gears.
January 21, 2006
The FIRST State LEGO League Tournament was held in the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convention Center on the University of Delaware campus. We had three events running: Junior FIRST LEGO League, FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST VEX Competition in the Center. Congratulations to all winning and participating teams!
Tournament Results Event Media
January 17, 2006
Like many other FIRST teams, we held a meeting to watch the NASA kickoff feed. Some of our team members attended the official regional FIRST kick off, where they had built a model of the playing field. After the feed, we brainstormed for a way to, hopefully, build our robot.
December 2, 2005
Congratulations to our DuPont mentors for receiving a group 2005 DuPont Volunteer Recognition Award!
March 24-26, 2005
At the Philadelphia Regional, MOEbius was let loose again and it performed very well. It capped smoothly, and needed only a little bit of fixing.
Members helped out other teams in their pits and gave teams awards. We were jumping for joy when we won the Regional Chairman's Award. We were proud that our Pit Lord (Lou Rosanio) was presented with the Regional Woodie Flowers Award.
We came up as the second seed in the competition and won the Regional Championship.
March 19, 2005
Saturday March 19 Tragedy
On Saturday, March 19, a tragic car accident claimed the lives of two local students and severely injured a third. All students attended the Charter School of Wilmington. On behalf of our team, which consists of several Charter School students, I would like to express our sympathy and offer prayers and support to the family and friends of those involved in the accident.
John Larock,
Team Coordinator - MOE 365
March 10-12, 2005
At the Pittsburgh Regional, MOEbius performed better than we even hoped it would. It ran smoothly, capped well and did not break down at all during the whole competition. Our team members had enthusiastically helped other teams in the pits that were having trouble with their robot and gave out awards to teams. We were very happy when we became the number one seed and went all the way to the finals. We also brought home the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
and Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award. The team (especially the web team) was extremely happy when we recieved the regional Website Award.
March 6, 2005
Delaware Proclaims Miracle Workerz Day (aka 3-6-5).To find out more about this proclamation follow this link.
February 22, 2005
3:22 PM EST -- MOEbius, in his MOE green and black crate, left MOE HQ, bound for the Pittsburgh Regional. If a missing student doesn't show up soon, we will just assume that he will appear with MOEbius in Pittsburgh.
February 14, 2005
It's Valentine's Day, and we're lovin' our robot! MOEbius is in the spirit, if you consider MOE green to be the color of Valentines!
February 9, 2005
During the Delaware Governor's regularly scheduled community interaction sessions, First State Robotics, Inc. explained the educational initiatives that they have active in the state. Governor Minner was also asked to speak during opening ceremonies at next season's First State FIRST LEGO League event. The probability is high that, if her schedule allows, she may join us. In the photo, Governor Minner shows off a MOE Robotics shirt during this visit with John Larock, MOE's leader.
MOE Student Achieves More
Today it was announced that Morgan, a member of the MOE Programming sub-team and the MOE Competition Team, received a $1,250 scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers. This is a great achievement, and everyone at MOE is happy for her success.
Not only did Morgan gain the SWE scholarship, she also received a FIRST scholarship to the Florida Institute of Technology for $3,000. She went through an application process, including an interview, and received great results. Congratulations to Morgan, and good luck in your future!
February 22, 2007
MOEzilla revealed!
|
|
You all may have been wondering what MOE would have in store for 2007. Well, today MOE reveals the new bot to the public. We won't show how this robot works, you will just have to find out at future competitions. Please visit our See MOEzilla's page. for a better view! |
February 20, 2007
MOEzilla is now shipped!
|
After MOEzilla was put away in its crate, it was ready to ship. MOE is looking forward to Rochester, and also looking forward to the competition that is ahead of us. Our box will be the den for MOEzilla as it is being transported to Rochester, as it awaits for it's future competitors... |
|
February 19, 2007
MOEzilla is now Crated Up and Ready to Ship!
|
MOEzilla, MOE's robot for 2007, has been completed, tested and crated. Now we have our box ready for Rochester, which will be MOEzilla's home for the next few weeks. Here is our team captain preparing the box for the arrival of MOEzilla. |
|
February 18, 2007
MOEmentum is Upgraded with New Features!
Our database for new teams is now indexed by topic as well as by week. You can now follow your topic of interest through the whole build season with one mouse click. Go to The MOEmentum page to see more.
February 8, 2007
A New Name is Born!
After a very intense competition and poll, we finally were able to come to the last two names for our new robot. MOE members had a very long list of proposed names, and the top two were chosen on the 7th of February. These two were MOEzilla and ArackMOEphobia. MOEster-Chief, though a great name, hit third place. On this date, February 8, the chosen name for our robot was MOEzilla!
Also, after many logos were submitted we voted for one that seemed the best for MOE. To the right is the new MOE logo! The 8 gears represent the 8 years that the MOE team has been around. You'll be seeing this logo on our shirts and even animated on our Web site!
January 27, 2007
FIRST State Lego League Tournament
The FIRST State Lego League Tournament was held at the Bob Carpenter Center on the campus of the University of Delaware. JFLL, FLL, and FTC events were held simultaneously. Many teams participated, and the event was exciting. Each team truly did the best that they could, and all of their ideas and accomplishments were truly great ones. Congratulations to every participating and winning team! Also a big congratulations to the winner of the Tournament Volunteer of the Year Award, Vince Keedy! Good job!
January 22, 2007
MOE Forums!
|
The MOE Forums are up for 2007! Each MOE team member has an ID and password to access our private Team section. Others are welcome to register to participate in the public forums. Come and join the forums -- let's hear from you. |
|
January 21, 2007
MOE in the Newspaper!
Today was another busy day at MOE when a reporter came in representing the five regional papers of the Community News. The subteams that make up MOE were interviewed by reporter Kevin Barrett, shown here with our Programming Team. Each of our teams will be covered in this weekly series of articles. This is definitely a nice thing, not only because our students are being featured, but also our team will be recognized throughout the community. You can visit the Community News site at www.communitypub.com
January 15, 2007
MOE at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
MOE went out this day to celebrate MLK Day. Martin Luther King Jr. was truly an honorable man. There is no possible way to ignore this man, and what things he did that no one else could do. We demonstrated TerMOEnator, our 2006 robot, and also VEX robots. It was a fun day for MOE students, and the kids had fun too during the whole event. That's always a good thing to see.
|
|
January 6, 2007
Kick-off and Brainstorming!
2006 is over, and the new year is here. With a new game put into play, and the challenge that this new game is expected to bring, MOE is getting ready for the new world that lies ahead. The competition is something to truly look forward to. While working on our robot, we're also figuring out a name for it, and a few good ones have come up already. We look forward to seeing all the teams at future competitions. Good luck to everyone out there!
The MOE Web Team has also begun to think about how to enhance our website for greater results when it comes to your viewing pleasure. More content will be added for the new year, so continue to visit.
April 15, 2006
The MOE-sponsored 5K was a great success, with 184 runners enjoying a beautiful Saturday morning! See complete race results on line, and check out the details of our first 5K Robot Run/Walk.
April 12, 2006
As part of our effort to make our website accessible to anyone, we have scrutinized every inch of our site and read all of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. After taking the appropriate steps to modify our site to conform to their suggestions, we have, per their guidelines, declared all pages on this site to have Level A Conformance. If you have any comments or suggestions for further accessibility improvement, please don't hesitate to e-mail them to our webmaster.
April 3, 2006
Congratulations to John Larock for being awarded the coveted Jefferson's Award for Public Service.
March 31, 2006
Philidelphia Regional was even more fun than Pittsburgh Regional. All of the teams were a pleasure to be around, and the FIRST culture was thriving. Congratulations to Mr. Enslen for winning the Volunteer of Year Award. He does tons of work to help multiple events run smoothly. Also, congratulations to the Web Team, for winning the Web Design Award.
March 23, 2006
The MOE Forums are back in action for 2006! Join the existing threads or start new ones. MOE Team Members have IDs and passwords. Others can register for access to the public forums.
March 11, 2006
MOE had a great time at the Pittsburgh Regional! We are pleased to announce that we received the Regional Chairman's Award, as well as the Imagery Award. John Larock, our team leader for seven years and counting, received the Regional Woodie Flowers Award for his incredible dedication to Team 365 and his extraordinary commitment of time and energy that have made our team what it is today.
March 6, 2006
Our super custom pit gets loaded for its trip to Pitt...
February 28, 2006
Disaster! Our site was down for about twenty-one hours, due to a server problem. Everything is fine now -- however, it did give us a bit of a scare. (Weeks later... it actually took a couple weeks to undo some of the effects of the incident)
February 24, 2006
We would like to express our gratitude toward Team 1394 - "Mastery Charter Robotics: Juggernaut" for inducting Team 365 into their Hall of Fame. It is wonderful to see that new teams have benefitted from our inspiration.
Team 1394's Hall of Fame Team 1394 Website
February 20, 2006
Ship is here, and the robot is safely packed away in our famous black and green crate. We are very pleased with the new packing material that was used, even if it does tend to be on the talkative side.
February 19, 2006
All the parents of team members got to see the team hard at work on the robot at our open house on Sunday. We have gotten positive feedback from the attendees, who are just as excited as we are to see the robot in good, working condition.
February 14, 2006
Valentine's Day is here, and robot love is in the air! While the rest of the world is celebrating with pink and red hearts, here at MOE we are signing our love notes (to our robot) with green and black gears.
January 21, 2006
The FIRST State LEGO League Tournament was held in the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convention Center on the University of Delaware campus. We had three events running: Junior FIRST LEGO League, FIRST LEGO League, and FIRST VEX Competition in the Center. Congratulations to all winning and participating teams!
January 17, 2006
Like many other FIRST teams, we held a meeting to watch the NASA kickoff feed. Some of our team members attended the official regional FIRST kick off, where they had built a model of the playing field. After the feed, we brainstormed for a way to, hopefully, build our robot.
December 2, 2005
|
Congratulations to our DuPont mentors for receiving a group 2005 DuPont Volunteer Recognition Award!
|
March 24-26, 2005
At the Philadelphia Regional, MOEbius was let loose again and it performed very well. It capped smoothly, and needed only a little bit of fixing. Members helped out other teams in their pits and gave teams awards. We were jumping for joy when we won the Regional Chairman's Award. We were proud that our Pit Lord (Lou Rosanio) was presented with the Regional Woodie Flowers Award. We came up as the second seed in the competition and won the Regional Championship.
March 19, 2005
|
On Saturday, March 19, a tragic car accident claimed the lives of two local students and severely injured a third. All students attended the Charter School of Wilmington. On behalf of our team, which consists of several Charter School students, I would like to express our sympathy and offer prayers and support to the family and friends of those involved in the accident.
|
March 10-12, 2005
At the Pittsburgh Regional, MOEbius performed better than we even hoped it would. It ran smoothly, capped well and did not break down at all during the whole competition. Our team members had enthusiastically helped other teams in the pits that were having trouble with their robot and gave out awards to teams. We were very happy when we became the number one seed and went all the way to the finals. We also brought home the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award and Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award. The team (especially the web team) was extremely happy when we recieved the regional Website Award.
March 6, 2005
|
Delaware Proclaims Miracle Workerz Day (aka 3-6-5).To find out more about this proclamation follow this link.
|
February 22, 2005
3:22 PM EST -- MOEbius, in his MOE green and black crate, left MOE HQ, bound for the Pittsburgh Regional. If a missing student doesn't show up soon, we will just assume that he will appear with MOEbius in Pittsburgh.
February 14, 2005
It's Valentine's Day, and we're lovin' our robot! MOEbius is in the spirit, if you consider MOE green to be the color of Valentines!
February 9, 2005
|
During the Delaware Governor's regularly scheduled community interaction sessions, First State Robotics, Inc. explained the educational initiatives that they have active in the state. Governor Minner was also asked to speak during opening ceremonies at next season's First State FIRST LEGO League event. The probability is high that, if her schedule allows, she may join us. In the photo, Governor Minner shows off a MOE Robotics shirt during this visit with John Larock, MOE's leader.
|
