Alan Coats, Halliburton Director of Strategic Planning, presents Scott Rippetoe of Texas Torque a check for $10,000. Halliburton has been supporting Team 1477 for the past eight years and is a founding sponsor.
Texas Torque won the Judge’s Award at their first ever appearance at the Madtown Throwdown in Madera, California on November 11 and 12. Many thanks to host Team 1323.
Torque had their first meeting of the season on October 28th. It was a great meeting where everyone got to introduce themselves and then jump into learning about the skills they would need next season by working on getting the competition robot and practice robots back in shape.
Team 1477: Texas Torque out of the Woodlands, TX made an appearance in the eliminations at the Indiana Robotics Invitational, an event dubbed FIRST’s All-Star Game along with their friends the Robonauts, 118 from League City, TX and the WiredCats, 2415 from Atlanta, GA.
The team demonstrated their robot to around 200 children during the Wonders of the Woodlands, a event put together to teach children about how the natural sciences and the world around them interact.
Scott Rippetoe Answers Questions about the Texas Torque 2011 Robot.