What a weekend! We arrived at the Greater Pittsburgh Regional Competition still a bit tired from the Finger Lakes Regional just the week before, but we still brought our absolute best! It was a ton of fun seeing a lot of teams that we aren’t as familiar with, as well as a few old friends. After 3 long and awesome days of competition, our robot ended up ranked 10th, but we ended up being the picking team for the 7th-place alliance. We competed in the quarter finals with Team 379 (Robocats) and Team 4991 (Horesepower-ed), but we lost in the quarterfinals yet again.
HOWEVER, the best was yet to come. Long story short, we received the Regional Chairman’s Award! It’s been a tough past 2 seasons, but we persevered and kept working hard at all the things that we believe in: Community Service, Advocacy, and showing the power of STEAM to our community, and the world. We’re so excited to be heading off to Houston for the FIRST World Championships, and looking forward to competing with so many other great teams!
![Early morning at California University of Pennsylvania](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_20220317_195144-768x1024.jpg)
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![We often times wear tiaras on Fridays to celebrate women in STEM](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220318-_R5_0687-1024x683.jpg)
![Our drivers discussing strategy for the next match.](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220318-_R5_0845-683x1024.jpg)
![Mid-bar hang](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220318-_R5_0803-1024x683.jpg)
![That's our drive team!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220318-_R5_0770-1024x683.jpg)
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![Our Drive Team playing rock, paper, scissors with the teams on the other side of the field during a delay.](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1686-683x1024.jpg)
![Strategy and statistics time...](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1385-683x1024.jpg)
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![Making repairs on TURBULENCE](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220318-_R5_0925-1024x683.jpg)
![Team RUSH!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-28-1024x768.jpg)
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![Getting some congratulations from FRC 379 - Robocats!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-16-1024x768.jpg)
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![Fancy socks with the other drive team members!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-5-1-768x1024.jpg)
![Rolling Thunder in the stands](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1749-1024x683.jpg)
![Greater Pittsburgh Regional Chairman's Winner!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1762-1024x683.jpg)
![Some of our mentors were watching us from at home!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PXL_20220319_213152255-769x1024.jpg)
![Our Chairman's Crew with the banner!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1813-1024x1021.jpg)
![Drive Team with the blue banner](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1794-1024x683.jpg)
![The Pit Crew with our 2022 Regional Chairman's banner.](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1819-1024x683.jpg)
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![Our Chairman's presenters](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319_175045-1024x478.jpg)
![Greater Pittsburgh Regional Chairman's Winner!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319-_R5_1834-1024x683.jpg)
![Post-competition celebration!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220319_182735-1024x478.jpg)
![We love our mentors - even the ones who can't travel with the team!](https://penfieldrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-29-768x1024.jpg)
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