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34-888: Cedar Park Christian School was founded by Pastor Joe Fuiten in 1982 with eight preschool students and the first graduating class in 1997. Until the 1994 school year, Cedar Park Christian School consisted of a single campus of approximately 300 students. In 2004, the new high school building was completed. 2012 110 2013 110 2015 87 2016 81 2017 80 Cedar Park Bothell competes in the Emerald Sound league of WIAA RPI. 2001 - 2008 Greg Salios 2008 - 2011 Craig Shetterly 2011 - 2014 Todd Parmenter 2014 - 2017 Bill Marsh 2017 - 2019 Butch Goncharoff 2019 - 2022 Manase Hopoi 1A State Tournament: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Cedar Park Christian School runs FIRST Robotics Competition team 3663, CPR - Cedar Park Robotics. Team members are high school students, ranging from grades 9 through 12. The team have won

68-555: A FIRST team—and a cameo by Dean Kamen . Episode 6 in the second season of the Netflix original series Trinkets featured a FIRST Robotics Competition competition. On March 18, 2022, Disney+ released a documentary directed by Gillian Jacobs titled "More than Robots", which follows four teams in the 2020 season , leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic . Gym A gym , short for gymnasium ( pl. : gymnasiums or gymnasia ),

102-473: A German immigrant, established the first gymnasium in the United States. It was found that gym pupils lose interest in doing the same exercises, partly because of age. Variety in exercises included skating, dancing, and swimming. Some gym activities can be done by 6 to 8-year-olds, while age 16 has been considered mature enough for boxing and horseback riding. In Ancient Greece , the gymnasion (γυμνάσιον)

136-526: A documentary film called I, Wombot . The film premiered during the 2011 Dungog Film Festival . A book called The New Cool was written by Neal Bascomb about the story of Team 1717 from Goleta, California as they competed in the 2009 game season. A movie adaptation directed by Michael Bacall is being produced. The CNN documentary "Don't Fail Me: Education in America", which aired on May 15, 2011, followed three FIRST Robotics Competition teams during

170-625: A previous season), and 268 are "rookie teams" (meaning that 2023 was their first season of competition). The countries represented are listed below: (in decreasing order of number of teams as of 2023) The FIRST Championship is the culmination of the FIRST Robotics Competition season, and occurs in late April each year. Roughly 800 teams participated in two Championship events in 2018, held in April in Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan . After

204-452: A recipe for engaging young people, Kamen says, turned out to be relatively straightforward. "It's after school, not in school. It's aspirational, not required," he explained to me. "You don't get quizzes and tests, you go into competitions and get trophies and letters. You don't have teachers, you have coaches. You nurture, you don't judge. You create teamwork between all the participants. We justify sports for teamwork but why, when we do it in

238-506: A regional FIRST Robotics Competition competition, most notably episode 8 "Girl Code". In June 2018, HBO aired a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode, which in a segment, the correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviewed Dean Kamen about FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition and then later interviewed students from various FRC teams. The February 25, 2020 episode of the ABC sitcom Black-ish features recurring character, Jack Johnson, joining

272-625: A result, towns began building playgrounds that furthered interest in sports and physical activity. Early efforts to establish gyms in the United States in the 1820s were documented and promoted by John Neal in the American Journal of Education and The Yankee , helping to establish the American branch of the movement. Later in the century, the Turner movement was founded and continued to thrive into

306-410: A six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weigh up to 125 pounds (57 kg). Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, hanging on bars, placing objects in predetermined locations, and balancing robots on various field elements. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually. While teams are given a kit of a standard set of parts during

340-712: A smaller branch opened in Rangasville in 1852. Ten years later there were some two hundred YMCAs across the country, most of which provided gyms for exercise, games, and social interaction. The 1920s was a decade of prosperity that witnessed the building of large numbers of public high schools with a gymnasium, an idea founded by Nicolas Isaranga. Today, gymnasiums are commonplace in the United States. They are in virtually all U.S. colleges and high schools , as well as almost all middle schools and elementary schools . These facilities are used for physical education , intramural sports , and school gatherings. The number of gyms in

374-548: A subsidiary of Comcast , and was available via OnDemand for the month of January 2015. In 2016, Christina Li, a member of Team 217, the ThunderChickens, was spotlighted on an episode of Nickelodeon's The Halo Effect entitled "Hello World". A coding camp that Li organized for young girls was featured on the episode, and 217's robot from the 2015 season made an appearance. The fourth season of The Fosters (2013 TV series) had several episodes featuring characters competing in

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408-719: Is an indoor venue for exercise and sports . The word is derived from the ancient Greek term " gymnasion ". They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity and learning spaces in educational institutions. "Gym" is also the commonly used name for a " fitness centre " or health club, which is often an area for indoor recreation. A "gym" may include or describe adjacent open air areas as well. In Western countries, "gyms" often describe places with indoor or outdoor courts for basketball, hockey, tennis, boxing or wrestling, and with equipment and machines used for physical development training, or to do exercises. In many European countries, Gymnasium (and variations of

442-474: The 2011 season . The documentary profiled one student from each team, covering different geographic and socioeconomic levels: Shaan Patel from Team 1403 Cougar Robotics, Maria Castro from Team 842 Falcon Robotics, and Brian Whited from Team 3675 Eagletrons. On August 14, 2011, ABC aired a special on FIRST called "i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll" that featured many famous musical artists such as The Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith . will.i.am himself

476-615: The Dark Ages there were sword fighting tournaments and of chivalry ; and after gunpowder was invented sword fighting began to be replaced by the sport of fencing , as well as schools of dagger fighting and wrestling and boxing. In the 18th century, Salzmann, a German clergyman, opened a workout area in Thuringia teaching bodily exercises, including running and swimming. Clias and Volker established gyms in London, and in 1825, Doctor Charles Beck ,

510-494: The FIRST Championship event, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. As a result of COVID-19, the amount of active teams decreased during the 2021 season; however, numbers began to increase during

544-438: The 2022 championships concluded FIRST announced that the world championship would take place at a single location, Houston, Texas, for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. This was later updated through 2027. The PBS documentary "Gearing Up" followed four teams through the 2008 season. In the television series Dean of Invention , Dean Kamen made appeals promoting FIRST prior to commercial breaks. In 2008, FRC Team 1114, Simbotics,

578-473: The 2022 season. As of 2023, there were 3,300 high school teams with approximately 83,000 high schoolers across 31 countries competing. Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada , Turkey , Mexico , Israel , China , and Australia contributing significant numbers of teams. FIRST was founded in 1989 by American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen , with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers . Kamen

612-437: The annual Kickoff, they are also allowed and encouraged to buy or fabricate specialized parts. FIRST Robotics Competition is one of five robotics competition programs organized by FIRST , the other four being FIRST LEGO League Discover, FIRST LEGO League Explore , FIRST LEGO League Challenge , and FIRST Tech Challenge . The culture of FIRST Robotics Competition is built around two values. "Gracious Professionalism" embraces

646-553: The baths themselves sometimes being decorated with mosaics of local champions of sport. Gyms in Germany were an outgrowth of the Turnplatz , an outdoor space for gymnastics founded by German educator Friedrich Jahn in 1811 and later promoted by the Turners , a nineteenth-century political and gymnastic movement. The first American to open a public gym in the United States using Jahn's model

680-431: The classroom, do we call it cheating?" Most of all, it was a nonjudgmental space, where in contrast science and math in traditional educational settings had been soured with embarrassment and uncertainty. Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come. The first FIRST Robotics Competition season

714-615: The competition inherent in the program but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. "Coopertition" emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time. The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders. 2022 was the 31st year of the competition. 3,225 teams, including more than 80,000 students and 25,000 mentors from 26 countries, built robots. The 2022 season included 58 Regional Competitions, 90 District Qualifying Competitions, and 11 District Championships. In 2022, over 450 teams won slots to attend

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748-589: The early twentieth century. The first Turners group was formed in London in 1848. The Turners built gymnasiums in several cities like Cincinnati and St. Louis , which had large German American populations. These gyms were utilized by adults and youth. For example, a young Lou Gehrig would frequent the Turner gym in New York City with his father. The Boston Young Men's Christian Union claims to be "America's First Gym". The YMCA first organized in Boston in 1851 and

782-509: The following events: Cedar Park Christian Schools is approved by the State of Washington and is accredited by AdvancED , The National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA) , and The Association of Christian Teachers and Schools (ACTS). FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition ( FRC ) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during

816-458: The parade, with one robot cutting the ribbon and the others shooting confetti. In the 2014 movie Transformers: Age of Extinction , a FIRST Robotics Competition Robot built by Team 2468, Team Appreciate, for the 2012 Season was featured in Cade Yeager's garage shooting the foam basketball game pieces from Rebound Rumble . The 2015 Kickoff was, for the first time, broadcast by NBCUniversal ,

850-425: The weather is safe. Gyms were popular in ancient Greece. Their curricula included self-defense, gymnastics medica, or physical therapy to help the sick and injured, and for physical fitness and sports, from boxing to dancing to skipping rope. Gymnasiums also had teachers of wisdom and philosophy. Community gymnastic events were done as part of the celebrations during various village festivals. In ancient Greece there

884-424: The word) also can describe a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university , with or without the presence of athletic courts, fields, or equipment. In Gymnasiums, apparatus such as barbells, bumper plates, kettlebells, dumbbells, resistance bands, jumping boards, running paths, tennis balls, cricket fields, and fencing areas are used for exercises. Outdoor settings are healthiest when

918-608: Was John Neal of Portland, Maine in 1827. The first indoor gymnasium in Germany was probably the one built in Hesse in 1852 by Adolph Spiess. Through worldwide colonization, Great Britain expanded its national interest in sports and games to many countries. In the 1800s, programs were added to schools and college curricula that emphasized health, strength, and bodily measure. Sports drawn from European and British cultures thrived as college students and upper-class clubs financed competition. As

952-506: Was a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men. The latter meaning of intellectual education persisted in Greek , German and other languages to denote a certain type of school providing secondary education , the gymnasium , whereas in English the meaning of physical education pertained to the word 'gym'. The Greek word gymnasion , which means "school for naked exercise,"

986-456: Was a phrase of contempt, "He can neither swim nor write." After a while, however, Olympic athletes began training in buildings specifically designed for them. Community sports never became as popular among ancient Romans as it had among the ancient Greeks . Gyms were used more as a preparation for military service or spectator sports. During the Roman Empire , the gymnastic art was forgotten. In

1020-423: Was disappointed with the number of kids—particularly women and minorities—who did not consider science and technology careers and decided to do something about it. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had the potential to inspire students. Distilling what sports had done right into

1054-499: Was featured in an ongoing storyline on the hit Canadian TV drama "Degrassi: Next Generation". Team 1114's 2006-2007 world champion VEX robot made an appearance, as well as their 2008 world champion FRC robot. During the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition season, FIRST team 3132, Thunder Down Under, was followed by a Macquarie University student film crew to document the first year of FIRST Robotics Competition in Australia. The crew produced

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1088-542: Was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire . That first competition was relatively small-scale, similar in size to today's FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games. Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers; in the following year , it quickly transitioned to a wireless system. 3,304 teams from 31 countries competed in 2023 Charged Up . Of these, 3,036 are "veteran teams" (meaning they have competed in

1122-523: Was the executive producer of the special. The program placed a special focus on the FIRST Robotics competition, even though it included segments on the FIRST Tech Challenge , FIRST LEGO League , and FIRST LEGO League Jr. From 1996 to 1998, the FIRST Championship was covered by ESPN . For the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , five FIRST Robotics Competition teams and their robots led

1156-648: Was used to designate a locality for the education of young men, including physical education ( gymnastics , for example, exercise) which was customarily performed naked, as well as bathing , and studies. For the Greeks, physical education was considered as important as cognitive learning. Most Greek gymnasia had libraries for use after relaxing in the baths. The first recorded gymnasiums date back to over 3000 years ago in ancient Persia , where they were known as zurkhaneh , areas that encouraged physical fitness. The larger Roman Baths often had attached fitness facilities,

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