PRIZES

The real rewards in robotics are a sense of achievement, teamwork and the joy of designing and building a successful robot. We will recognize achievements through both cash prizes and non-cash prizes.

Click Here to view the total results from the 2009 TCFFHRC.

The following cash prizes were awarded at the 2009 contest.

2009 TCFFHRC BURP Champion

Fire Fighting

Junior Division First Prize Yan-I Yanbu Middle School Kit 7.571 China Second Prize Yan-II Yanbu Middle School Kit 8.974 China Third Prize East Red East Red Primary School Kit 9.964 China First Prize Auroch Frontier Regional School Unique 1590 MA Second Prize Smoke and Mirrors II (SAM II) No Affiliation Unique 1680 NH Third Prize Bunalien Driven Bolts Robotics Club Unique 1800 NJ High School Division First Prize Zuoran Anhui Province Tongling No. 3 Middle School Kit 5.641 China Second Prize Liuzhou No. 15 Liuzhou Technology Museum No. 15 Middle School Kit 22.11 China Third Prize Space Oddity George School Kit 111.807 PA First Prize Blastoise Misgav High School Unique 9.645 Israel Second Prize I. A. M. Knight Ostrovski High School Unique 22.114 Israel Third Prize Pinky ORT Aviation and Space Unique 613.729 Israel Senior Division First Prize Yichuan Yichuan Middle School Kit 5.99 China Second Prize TOBOR II Bridgewater State College Kit 75.587 MA Third Prize Firefly Trinity College Kit 659.13 CT First Prize Crater Vanadium Labs Unique 189.708 NY Second Prize NewJob Rabin High School Unique 620.866 Israel Third Prize H2O Penn State Abington Unique 631 PA Walking Division First Prize Coracaozinho APCS GUARDA Kit 527.326 Portugal Second Prize Flash George School Kit 1202.25 PA Third Prize Bender Bending Rodriguez Polytechnic Institute of NYU Kit 1800 NY First Prize Adam's Ant No Affiliation Unique 1710 NY Second Prize Watch Me Explode V Massachusetts Institute of Technology Unique 1800 MA

Versa Valves Challenge

High School: Space Oddity, George School, PA
Walking: Flash, George School, PA

BURP

Junior Team
First Place: Smoke and Mirrors II (SAM II), Independent, NH

High School
First Place: Blastoise, Misgav High School, Israel
Second: Tsunami, Ort Givat Ram Jerusalem, Israel
Third: Rexy, Misgav High School, Israel

Senior
First Place: TOBOR II, Bridgewater State College, MA
Second: NewJob, Rabin High School, Israel
Third: Fire Chief, University of New Hampshire, NH

Olympiad

Junior Team: Li Tia Lun, Lin Xiaoyin, Duan Yuyan, Beijing National Day School, China

High School Team: Osiris, Ostrovsky High School, Israel

High School Individual: Jason Fine, Ostrovsky High School, Israel

Senior Team: Mortlet, RIT MORC

Senior Individual: Michael Ferguson, University of Albany, NY

RoboWaiter

First place: James the Bot, Grand Valley State, MI
Second place: Pinchy, Mark Whitney, FL
Third place: Tsunami, Ort Givat Ram, Israel

Cost Effective Robot

Senior: Crater, Vanadium Labs, NY

Poster Session

Junior: Smoke and Mirrors II (SAM II), No Affiliation, NH

High School: Rexy, Misgav High School, Israel

Senior: Green Machine Reloaded, Vanadium Labs, NY

Walking: Coracaozinho, APCS GUARDA, Portugal

Robots From Connecticut

Junior: Stevens School, E. C. Stevens, CT
High School: Ares, Hall High School, CT
Senior: Firefly, Trinity College, CT