Monthly Archives: April 2017

Volunteers Needed at Dye Elementary

April 17, 2017   Carman-Ainsworth District, Dye Elementary

The last few months of the school year hold many challenges for the teachers and staff responsible for all of the fun end-of-year activities we do! The color run, the track meet, field day; these are some of the special things our students will always remember.

We need help from our parents and grandparents!

There will be a sign up sheet in the office starting April 19th for anyone that has a few hours to help with one of the above mentioned days.

It could be as easy as handing out popsicles, helping to supervise a three-legged race, or just helping to tie a little ones shoes!

Please be a part of our extended Dye Family!

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Dye Elementary Showcase Concert

April 17, 2017   Carman-Ainsworth District

 

Many of our third, fourth, and fifth graders at Dye Elementary have been invited to perform in our annual Showcase Concert on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. in the Dye Elementary Gym.

The children will be sharing a variety of folk, patriotic, and recorder songs at this concert. Members of the 5th Grade Band will also be performing.

Students should arrive by 5:45 p.m. and meet in the Music Room (Room 401 in the blue hallway). Students ar asked to dress up for this event.

The program will last about 45 minutes.

Please contact Mr. Holmberg if you have any questions – 810-591-6741 or cholmer@carmanaisnworth.org

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Big MO is going to Worlds!

April 17, 2017   Carman-Ainsworth District

The Carman-Ainsworth FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition®) Team 314 did compete this last weekend at the Michigan FRC State Championship at Saginaw Valley State University with 159 other teams from around the state to earn enough points to qualify for a spot at the FIRST® World Festival in St. Louis MO.  This was their last competition this year in Michigan at which they had a fantastic weekend.

  • The 160 teams were divided into 4 divisions.  We were on the Ford Division
  • Overall Rank:  1st out of 40 teams in the Ford Division.  We were in the # 1 spot for most of the weekend and all day on Friday.
  • Was the 1st Alliance Captain which at that time we asked Team 27 RUSH (Clarkston) and Team 5907 CC Shambots (Novi) to partner with us in eliminations.
  • Played in the Elimination matches which we were taken out in the quarter finals by the 8th Alliance.
  • During the awards ceremony, we did receive an award, Innovation in Controls Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation.  This award celebrates a team with an innovative control system or application of control components to provide unique machine functions.  This is what the judges said about it:  Engineers on this team kept their cool and didn’t get agitated when they had to go back and rework their original design.  To fix the problem, the team added new features to the control system and created a very competitive robot.  At the same time, these engineers expanded the hopper and their knowledge.
  • After this event we finished the 2017 season ranked 35th out of 451 teams in the State of Michigan with a total of 220 points.
  • Because of the points we have qualified to compete at the FIRST® World Festival in St. Louis MO which begins on Wednesday, April 26th and continues to Saturday, April 29th.  We will be leaving onTuesday, April 25th and returning on Sunday, April 30th.

 

Our next competitions are the following:

 

FIRST Championship – St. Louis will be April 26 – 29, 2017 at

Edward Jones Dome

901 N Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63101

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Carman-Ainsworth FRC Competes at Districts

April 10, 2017   Carman-Ainsworth District

The Carman-Ainsworth FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition®) Team 314 competed this last weekend at the Livonia FIRST® Robotics District Competition with 40 other teams from around the state to earn points at qualifying for a spot at the Michigan FRC State Championship.  This was their second competition this year. They had a fantastic weekend.

  • Overall Rank:  20th out of 41 teams in the District event
  • Was selected by the 4th Alliance Captain, Team 3414 Hackbots, Farmington and we chose Team 3175 Knight Vision, Grosse Point Woods to partner with us
  • Played in the Elimination matches which went all the way to the finals. Quarter-finals and Finals was pushed to 3 matches.
  • We are also the 2017 Livonia FIRST® RoboticsDistrict Competition Winners. Our Alliance was Team 3414 Hackbots (Captain), Farmington and we chose Team 3175 Knight Vision, Grosse Point Woods
  • Going in to this event we were ranked 258 in the state because of these outstanding efforts we are currently rank 57th out of 451 teams in the State of Michigan with a total of 91 points earned towards the Michigan FRC State Championship.
  • Because of the points we have qualified to compete at the Michigan FRC State Championship at Saginaw Valley State University which begins onWednesday, April 12th and continues to Saturday, April 15th.

Next competitions are the following:

Michigan FRC State Championship will be April 12 – 15, 2017

Ryder Center, Saginaw Valley State University
7400 Bay Rd
Saginaw, Michigan 48710

FIRST Championship – St. Louis will be April 26 – 29, 2017

Edward Jones Dome
901 N Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63101

 

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