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I hear Scranton's lovely this time of year. #luhi #first #firsttechchallenge #easternregionals #roboticsroadtrip (at Smithtown High School West)

FIRST Tech Challenge's Inspire Award "This judged award is given to the Team that truly embodied the ‘challenge’ of the FIRST Tech Challenge program. The Team that receives this award is a strong ambassador for FIRST programs and a role model FIRST Tech Challenge Team. This Team is a top contender for many other judged awards and is a gracious competitor. The Inspire Award winner is an inspiration to other Teams, acting with Gracious Professionalism® both on and off the Playing Field. This Team is able to communicate their experiences, enthusiasm and knowledge to other Teams, sponsors, their community, and the Judges. Working as a unit, this Team will have demonstrated success in accomplishing the task of designing and building a Robot." - FTC Game Manual I am proud to say that LuHi's team, in their first year competing and their second match ever, has won the highest award offered by the FIRST competition. They were already moving on to the Long Island Championships on February 11th, but now they move on with their heads held high. #luhi #stringtheory #popthehood (at Syosset High School)

Ignus was feeling particularly intelligent this morning. #luhi #classpet #lizard #uromastyx

LuHi's Crusader Robotics team has its first FTC Qualifier today! Special thanks to Mandy's Mark for providing our wonderful team shirts. Wish us luck! #first #firsttechchallenge #mandysmark (at Lynbrook Senior High School)

Decided to ring in the New Year with my own special kind of fireworks. Feliz Año Nuevo, Bonne Année, Head Uut Aastat, or however else you may say it, I hope everyone has a healthy, prosperous, Happy New Year! #happynewyear #2017 #avengers

Today's LuHi's first FIRST! We're competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge for the first time this year and somehow we ended up hosting the local scrimmage! Should be a fun day. #luhi #first #firsttechchallenge (at Long Island Lutheran Middle & High School)

Happy Halloween! Enjoy my beautiful Snorlax creation, the wonderfully creepy jack o' lantern carved by my sister @merisilviasher, and my brother Kris's excellently made Koffing! Have a safe and spooky night! #halloween #jackolantern #pumpkin #pokémon #pokéart #snorlax #koffing

She's a big smush, but she's still my little lap dog. #kohie #favoritelittleallergen #goldenretriever #puppy #lapdog

Thanks to a gale warning in the forecast, I have a sleeping dragon (and a very jealous puppy) this weekend! (For those who don't know, a gale is a powerful windstorm, which might bring down branches on power lines and kill his heat lamps.) #dracodormiensnunquamtitillandus #lizard #uromastyx

One guess what my favorite Pokémon is! (The pumpkin and 8-bit Santa are my own creations, but I have to thank @kyosinomi for making the adorable plushie and @merisilviasher for the Lego figure birthday present.) #pokémon #pokemonGO #pokéart #snorlax #pumpkin

Trainer Tips! When training a friendly gym, you don't necessarily want to use your strongest Pokémon. Where my CP 2214 Arcanine would've gotten 100-200ish prestige points for beating each Pokémon and maybe, if I were lucky, could've gotten 1500ish total for beating the entire gym (which I doubt it could've), this CP 992 Sandslash reliably got about 1788 points every time I beat up these three defenders (all weak against Ground attacks, like many typical gym defenders) and ran away. Using a Pokémon with a lower CP than the defender automatically gives a minimum 500 points for each Pokémon, so even if you can only beat one Pokémon you'll level up the gym significantly faster than you would by using a stronger Pokémon. (You can get even more per Pokémon using a larger CP gap if you use type matchups properly.) Happy training! (P.S. Another tip: defending Pokémon attack twice in quick succession when they first enter the battle. If you dodge twice at the beginning of each defender you can avoid this double-tap.) #pokémon #pokemonGO #pokemongotips #trainertips #teammystic (at Huntington Station, Huntington Station, New York)

Shortly after Pokémon Go came out, I saw an article that mentioned that Home Depot was one of the least frequented stores for trainers. As a nerd who enjoys playing with power tools, I'm happy to be a part of reversing that trend! #PokéDepot #pokémon #pokemonGO #pikachu #homedepot (at The Home Depot)

Ignus made a friend! #pokémon #pokemonGO #ekans #luhi #classpet #lizard #uromastyx

Bad news: LuHi lost power today. Good news: That meant Ignus got to come home for the weekend! #luhi #classpet #lizard #uromastyx

They're a little bit late but THEY FINALLY ARRIVED! #pokémon #pokemonGO #pokemonGOplus #thesecondoneisbecauseimaniceolderbrother

"Oh come on Arcanine, you're not THAT much taller than me. I'm 6'2", you're only" *looks up metric conversion* "6'10"... ok yes Arcanine you can be taller than me." #pokémon #pokemonGO #arcanine #buddy #tallpeopleproblems