User:MindstormsKid/Team page 1st half
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Team Info and History
Team Location
We are based in St. Elmo, a neighborhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Team Age
We first registered on August 31st, 2007.
Team Name
Teddy (our team captain), suggested the team name.
"Tera" (not "Terra"), means trillion, and Teddy read in a Wired Magazine article that it was the current "hot number". The "storm" part came from "Mindstorms", and the "Team" part (it's actually part of the name) was used because Teddy didn't think "Terastorm" sounded good.
How the team was started
Teddy read a newspaper article about FLL, and decided that he would create a team when he saw that the Chattanooga Engineers Club would sponsor any team in the Chattanooga area.
Robots
Current Season Events Attended
Tullahoma Local
Date Attended: November 3rd, 2007
Wow! We got second place, and this was our first tournament!
We got there at about 8:00am, central time. There were about 8 teams, and there were three rounds.
Chattanooga Tournament
Date Attended: November 17th, 2007
This was a small tournament, and it started at 9:00am (eastern time). There were four rounds, and no winners or losers. We did our project for the first time.
Tennessee State Tournament
Date Attended: December 1st, 2007
Wow! This was a huge tournament, with 57 teams from all over the state and over 450 kids in it! We got no awards, but we did get the 13th overall score, and we got a call back for the Robot Design interview (there were seven teams that got a call back and six of them got an award).
