To follow our USA Vex IQ World Championship Trip in chronological order, start at the very bottom of this blog...
Grand final!
Our alliance held their composure to score an impressive 65 points in the division final. Not quite enough to go through to the grand final but a perfect score for the design of our robots. Our score makes us the 22nd ranked alliance (elementary) in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the end of the team work challenges we were sitting in 7th (on 494 points, highest of any NZ team), making us the 4th ranked alliance, with team 10300A Ashland Robotics.
Autonomous programming
Made with VexIQ parts, the same as we used to build our robot
MSS Autobots posing with the Taranaki team, Nakibots
Practise, practise, practise
Robot passes tech inspection
The opening ceremony. We are now ready to represent our country!
Our pit area is set up and we are ready for action! 
KFC was invented here! Coating is slightly spicier and crunchier but otherwise the same as in NZ
Kentucky Derby Celebrations!!!
Kemah Boardwalk. Kemah is an island city next to Houston, Texas
San Jacinto Monument. Is taller than the Washington DC monument and the world's tallest masonry column. Topped with a 220 ton star to commemorate the battle of San Jacinto. If the Texans lost the battle, Texas would now be part of Mexico.
Yes there were squirrels in the trees in Houston. And yes, they do throw nuts down at you just like in the cartoons!
Spot the alligator
USS Texas (BB-35) located in the Houston Ship Channel off the Gulf of Mexico
Served in WW1 & WW2.
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston Zoo
On of many large 4WDs
NASA Space Center in Houston
Independence Shuttle sitting on top of a 747! The 747 would transport the space shuttles from landing sites back to the Kennedy Space Center for re-launch
Mars Exploration Rover similar to the one that is still on Mars collecting data
That's one small step for.......
For those who don't believe we have sent humans to the moon... Many pieces of equipment have been left behind on the moon including moon buggys
Mission Control Center used to send humans to the moon! Houston we have a problem...
Saturn V Rocket. 111m tall, 3,000,000kg and a 1.16 billion dollar cost (2016 value) per launch just to get 3 humans into space!
MSS and FHS with Mana Vautier (NASA Aerospace Engineer). Mana may (hopefully) one day travel into space and work on the International Space Station
Day 1 - Super 8 Motel, Houston. Exhausted after a 14 hour flight.
Boeing 777-200
Leaving Palmerston North Airport
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