Here are a bunch of pictures from Atlanta.

I'm back!

I just got back from World Fest! It was really great! I'll post about it later.

(almost) sunken ship

My family went down to OMSI to see my my little brother's friend's Da Vinci Challenge team's bridge model (long story). Anyway, we had to park quite a ways away from OMSI. On the walk back to the car, we saw a sailboat that had somehow gotten stuck beneath the Hawthorne bridge. it was all tilted over, and it had its mast stuck under the bridge. A couple of fireboats and a sheriff's boat had to be brought out to remove it. We were watching really close by, on an overlook by the fire station on the east end of the Hawthorne bridge.

Snowboardin'!

Yesterday I went snowboarding up at Meadows with my friend Nathan and my dad and brother. It was pretty cool. I learned how to go off of jumps and just before lunch I landed every jump. It was really cold, though, with gusts at the top of Mt. Hood express at up to 45 mph! The wind was coming down the mountain, so you didn't feel it at all when you were riding down, but when you were riding the lifts up, your face got blasted. My lips were so cold I couldn't even talk! But we had fun.

WorldFest!!!!!

Hooray!!!!!!

Our lego robotics team has been selected as the FLL Core Values Ambassador Team. This means that we gat to go to the world championships in Atlanta, Georgia in April! While we did not win the Oregon state tournament, we entered an essay contest which was to see who exhibited the FLL core values best. And then, we won! Yay! Being guys we had a bit of a delayed reaction on the celebration, which confused the girls.

Look at the expression on Peter Warila's face in the second picture.

Presentation!

And here is our project presentation! We got third place for our presentation.

Robot Runs

Here is our third mat run. We got 175 points on this one.