They did so well, even appearing  on  TV1 Breakfast programme. They were wonderful ambassadors for home education. You can find many more news media links on their website.

Here is a letter from the captain

Thank you everyone, for your support of our team, Free Range Robotics, in our endeavours at the World Championships in Dallas. This competition had some huge excitement. A couple of highlights were our first two games; Each of these games is played by four teams: two blue teams versus two red teams. We are paired up randomly. In both of the first two games our partners were unable to play, so we played alone against two robots and we won both games. This immediately made our standing with everyone rocket up; it really showed the world what New Zealanders and homeschoolers are made of.

Of course our biggest achievement is the programming. We are the VEX World Champions in Programming. And the second trophy we brought home was the Robot Skills 3rd place. Both of these are achievements of the whole team; the programmers and drivers couldn’t have done it without a great team behind them.

At the competition they also announced the new VEX game. “Clean Sweep”. It looks to be a lot of fun with plenty of things to think about and design for. As well as a new game, we also have a new season of scrimmages being run in New Zealand. I still don’t know all the details but it is going to be good.

If anyone wants to start a robotics team I would be very happy to talk to you about setting up a team for competing in the 2009/2010 competition.

If you want to know more about Free Range Robotics or the competition, cruise over to our website which has lots pictures of the trip and the competition. www.robotics.org.nz Also there is a guest book for you to leave a comment.

To contact me you can email me at patrick at softpro.co.nz

Patrick Walmsley
Team Captain
Free Range Robotics
www.robotics.org.nz

We have made this term’s bulletin available to all (including non-members) this time only. Please take the opportunity to let others know and invite them to join AHE.

If you would like your local support details updated send me an email.

The afternoon tea was a fabulous success. Thank you all for your part in it. There was lots of networking and swapping stories, advice and tips. It was wonderful opportunity for the committee to meet others around the region as well as the different regional leaders to meet with each other. Groups from across the whole of the Auckland region were represented, including Waitakere, North Shore, east, central and south Auckland.

It was altogether a very successful afternoon and we are looking forward to getting everyone together again in 2009.

ENTER the Members’ Lounge

If you looking for a good read, Johanna in Hamilton has an excellent list of Kiwi Home Educators’ Blogs.

Enjoy!

Tarnya

The website was down for several days. (I backed up the files but not the database, not a good idea but I know what I am doing a little better now).

I suppose this is a good time to remind you to back up your computer:-)

I will need a few days to get everything up and running again.

I have the older site stored on my computer so I’ll have that up as soon as possible.  The old site is here

Auckland Home Educators 

( The “home” and the “members’ will take you nowhere. I thought my time was better spent getting the new up and running. The calendar is still there and how to join and information exemptions etc.

In the meanwhile if  you have questions or there was a file you were looking for, you are welcome to  email me webmaster@ahe.org.nz

Regards

Tarnya