The Friday before the North Carolina primary, Hillary came to Hendersonville. Here are a couple of her best faces:
What do you mean “This is a Republican Town?”
The governor looks on as Hillary thinks “Pucker up America”.
Interesting story on the salvage operation of a car carrier containing $100 million worth of brand-new Mazdas. Mazda decided to destroy all the cars because they were at sea too long and they didn’t want to risk reliability problems. More interesting is the story of the guys that went onto the ship to save it. Click Here to go to the story.
There’s an article in the Hendersonville newspaper about the robot team. This year we made it to the quarter-finals, where we played five matches. Each match is best three out of three. After a tie, a win, a loss, and another win, we were lined up on the field to play the semi finals. Howerver a scoring error had occurred and after much analyzing it was decided that the other alliance won. After we got off the field, they then announced that after reviewing the video, we would play the match again. We then lost due to to penanties. It was a pretty exciting roller coaster ride. Click here to read the newpaper article.
Note: I say “we” but only the kids play. Hunter was the robot driver for the finals.
Carol got to ski for the first time. She was able to go up with the J-Bar by herself and “ski” back down.
Steph, Carol, and I took a CPR course. Of course the newpaper photographer chose her to be in the paper:
Alex’s team took second place in the Henderson County Mock Trial competition:
Click For Newspaper Story
Update: They have been choosen to go to the State Competion in Charlotte!
The boys and I took a little trip to Texas. We went to San Antonio, Karnes City and Dallas. To see some pictures go to http://picasaweb.google.com/bkowald/Texas2007
Here are some pictures from the 2007 FIRST Robotics regional competion in Columbia, SC (click here to view). We didn’t win but it was fun.
Guess its about time, no not for a new truck, but a new “family” vehicle. First out with the old, here’s our van on the cold rainy day we were taking it to trade it in:
And here’s its replacement: A 2006 Saturn Vue. Its an all wheel drive SUV type vehicle:
After a whirlwind six weeks, the robot build season is fianally over. For the last week we spent every spare minute testing it and trying to improve software. The competition is March 29-31.
Here is a picutre of this year’s robot:
The local news station came out and filmed us. Here is a link to the clip. If you click it, it should launch your media player to play it. Its 5 meg file, so if you are on a slow line, it may take awhile to download, or may play unevenly until its all downloaded.
Click here to view the video