VC Silver Circuits - going to Worlds again! VC Silver Circuits is once again the Nevada State Inspire Award Champions!! With this award, we are advancing for the fourth year in a row to represent Nevada at the FIRST World Championship in Houston, TX, from April 19-22!
Nevada State Robotics Competition The team with their coaches and mentor (Rogan, Michelle, and Coen) The team doing their presentation for the judges The team sang parody lyrics to the Toto song, 'Rains in Africa' - referring to their teammate Elise, who is currently in Africa
Virginia City Silver Circuits - Northern Nevada League Tournament at Galena Highschool After months of preparation, we competed in the Northern Nevada League Tournament at Galena High School this Saturday! It was amazing to reconnect with our fellow robot friends and experience an exciting day of competition. All our hard work this season truly paid off! We faced some tough challenges—broken
Savannah performs at the Reno Ice Christmas Show Savannah with her coach, Jorie before the show. Jorie skated in a group number Savannah skated beautifully! She had a super pretty and unique dress, and she did some difficult moves in her routine.
Silver Circuits Competition at Reno Public Market The Silver Circuits had their first competition today at the Reno Public Market, which is a food court type place with a big open space perfect for this kind of competition. They had a round in the morning and again in the afternoon - they did well and finished in 1st
West of Home sings at the Galena Ward Christmas party We sang 'Beautiful Star of Bethlehem', a pretty and simple version of 'The First Noel', and a super pretty arrangement of 'Silent Night' We had some dinner first, then we sang the first two songs. There was a first-time Christmas pageant with the
The Giving Machine The Light the World Giving Machine came to Reno this Christmas season. So we went and bought/donated some things this afternoon. There are cards inside with services offered by local charities and there is a variety of purchase price amounts. The charity name is in the lower corner of
West of Home has their 1st performance at the Mountain Lakes Estates Our set: Color Up My World Closer to Fine I'll Fly Away His Eye is on the Sparrow Wade in the Water Rhythm of Love Butterfly Fly Away Why Walk When You Can Fly If I Had My Way Nabby Angela Courtney This is a flyer that the
Rolling Hills 4th of July Bike Parade The Rolling Hills neighborhood has a bike parade (led by a firetruck) every 4th of July, lots of people came this year
Tucker is 16 and driving Tucker turned 16 a couple of weeks ago and got his drivier's license on Monday He likes driving without parents always being in the car
Battle Bots Some Silver Circuits guys got together at Rogan's house yesterday for a Battle Bots match. They each made a robot for battle. Rogan put together a field for the matches. Tucker's did well, but got damaged - that's ok! It's more fun that
Model of the Old Testament Tabernacle A group that travels with a life-size model of the Old Testament Tabernacle came to Reno last week. There was a youth conference for a couple of days and then tours were given on the third day. The youth who attended the conference were the tour guides. we'
Carson is officially a missionary Carson received a blessing setting him apart as a missionary; we were told that it's tradition for the mother to clip on the name tag for the first time. It's official - he's a full-time missionary! He's currently doing at-home MTC
Seeing Aurora Borealis in Reno The recent solar flares made some aurora borealis effects visible in the Reno night sky. Carson took these pictures.
FIRST Robotics World Competition in Houston, Texas We traveled with the team to Houston on Monday the week of Worlds. The team posed with another team from Mexico in the pit. The team in their pit - it's a place to display all aspects of the team and its accomplishments so the judges can observe, and
The Alamo We traveled to Houston with the team, so we were there on Monday and had a couple of days with a lot of free time while the team was doing team stuff. We drove to San Antonio to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk. There's Biden and Trump
NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston On Tuesday we still had a lot of free time to kill, so we tried out the NASA space center A mock shuttle on top of an airplane - you could walk around inside both of them inside the plane We took a tour of the astronaut training center funny name
Carson is going on a mission! Carson is going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He has been called to serve in the West Virginia Mission and leaves in early June.
VC Silver Circuits fundraising night at Piper's Opera House There was trivia, a silent auction, raffle and pulled pork sandwiches - all proceeds going towards travel expenses for Worlds. drawing raffle tickets Rogan (in the silver jacket) announced trivia questions and people could buy a trivia sheet and put their answers down to later go towards prizes. Tucker brought his
Reno Aces Baseball Game Keith found some Reno Aces tickets on craigslist, so we went to a game - it was pretty cold Savannah, Haylee and Vivien went to the swing on the back lawn Haylee and Vivien got to play in one of the games between innings a mascot named Truckee Archie getting ready
Galena Ward Ice Skating Night Savannah and Haylee Tucker and James I used one of those blue things in the background, but then I didn't need it anymore and I unexpectedly loved ice skating!
State Robotics Competition We've had a crazy blizzard blowing through Reno that started on Thursday night, so by Friday night it was snowing. The State robotics competition was supposed to be at McQueen High School, but because of snow days, a new venue had to be found. Someone in the organization
