18th at Nationals

May 24, 2009

From guest blogger Steve Rudolph

Today the timed assembly and load testing took place: five teams at a time. The team had a decent run but again made a few mistakes that put their final time higher than we were expecting. Still, we ended up with a good score, nearly identical to the score at regionals, which we won. Our overall placement was 18th (out of 47 teams), which is an improvement from last year and was the best for the teams in our region. We are inching up in the standings each year. (This is only the third year MIT has had a team participate in this long-standing competition.) This evening we attended the awards banquet.

The team poses for a picture after the awards ceremony. Photo / Steve Rudolph