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• Vancouver 2010

• January 1 - OKS wishes you a Happy New Year!

• November 4 - Yankees win World Series

• October 2 - Rio de Janeiro wins the spot for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Chicago and Madrid were kicked out.

• September 22 - OKSW changed its default theme to "Vector" due to it being a lot cleaner.
• September 11 - USCG training causes a big scare on the Potomac River and it's the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. God bless America, God curse Al Qaeda.

successful sync

well, I finally got the wordpress app on my blackberry storm to link to oksblog. It was either an issue with the BB software or the app. I got the brand New blackberry software few months ago nd I’m publishing to wordpress via the WP blackberry app. It works very well. [?]

Home, home again

I’m back home again, after a slightly disappointing Autodesk Oregon Regional. There were some Super Bowl XL like calls, but we did fairly well nonetheless. We lost in the semi-finals to the eventual winning alliance. We are working on making improvements to our robot, that hopefully will give us a better performance on the field. [?]

Snow in… March?

You heard me right. Beginning today at around 11:00am it began snowing. At first it was barely noticeable (except everyone at school went crazy.) And now, it’s snowing like it’s December. In Washington, we’ve barely had any snow, but now, it’s just coming down hard. Just when you thought the weather couldn’t get any more peculiar, [...] [?]

Final Qualification Matches, Beginning Elimination

Today, the qualification matches at the Autodesk Portland Regional finished up, with us performing much better. We ended up in 34th seed. When the top 8 seeded teams were choosing, we were lucky enough to be chosen by Team 8, The Vikings, and Team 1983, Skunkworks. At the beginning of the elimination tournament, our first match [...] [?]

Things aren’t going too well.

Here at the competition, because of certain pieces not coming together correctly,  and our head programmer makes some very bad decisions. He blows off time that could be used. We’ve had so many issues, that we thought all the problems were fixed before the competition. Also to facilitate more ranting, one of the mentors decided he [...] [?]