Where in the World is Ridley College?: Dallas Edition

What a four day stretch!

Our matches on Friday were toughly contested, and even though some of our alliance partners were weaker teams, we managed to win them all and sit 2nd out of 100 teams at the end of Friday with just one more match to go in the preliminary rounds on Saturday. The complex scoring system allows teams with similar records to score differently and another good team from Puerto Rico was slightly ahead of us. Friday we celebrated with some excellent Texas steak.

Saturday, the last day of preliminary matches went well. Team 1509 (our best machine) won again for a perfect 8-0 record. 1509R finished 5-3 and 1509B finished 4-4. Because James C finished in the top 10 in the skills challenge, he was given one more opportunity to better his score. James posted a 129 to finish 3rd overall and win our first trophy.

Next we won the innovate award for the most clever techniques and use of VEX material. Following that we managed to win our division of 100 teams and came 3rd overall in the world! To top it all off, we won the most prestigious trophy of all, the Excellence Award, the highest honour at this tournament for overall team play, programming skill, technical excellence and sportsmanship.

Congratulations to the Ridley Robotics team!!

(Update Provided by Coach Rodney Reimer)

Where in the World is Ridley College?: Dallas Edition

The Ridley robotics team has safely made its way to Dallas for the robotics VEX World Championship. Our trip down was eventful - we made special crates for our machines and when we arrived in Dallas, our machines were not in the luggage! After waiting for a second plane arriving later, we FINALLY got our machines.

Our first day of competition was today, and even though our machines had passed size inspections at previous contests, all 3 machines failed the stringent sizing requirements in Dallas. After grinding and refitting, we got all machines to pass inspection and then went out and competed in our first matches of the tournament. There are 400 machines at the competition, many of which are amazing, but we eked out wins in all of our matches (one by only 2 points: 52-50).

Tomorrow the contest really gets going with 6 more matches and stiffer challenges. This 12 hour day was exhausting but tomorrow is the real test. Team 1509, Ridley Rmageddon, did great today and hopefully we will continue our excellent play tomorrow!

(Update provided by Coach Rodney Reimer)

Public Speaking Contest

Congratulations to the students who participated in the public speaking contest! I was very impressed by all the participants. It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of an audience and put yourself out there. As for the hardware, Maddie H. took home the Family Guild Trophy (Junior Division), Joy C. received the Judge Kingstone Trophy (Senior Runner Up) and Dan R. was awarded the W.H. Merritt Trophy (Senior Winner) as well as the English Department Prize for Dramatic Monologue.

Have a look at the videos from the event:

Dramatic Monologues- some of these performances gave me chills...others made me laugh..they were all entertaining:

Senior Competition:

Junior Competition:

Campus watch: 1st Girls Hockey and Boys Basketball

Despite the snow, it's a hot weekend on campus for 1st Girls Hockey and the Boys Basketball teams! The girls are hosting the NAPHA Hockey tournament to get things going in the new rink while the boys basketball teams are playing host to the Dorland Classic! GO BLACKS! GO BLACKS! GO BLACKS! GO!!

Tiger Tales Day 1

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