Israel transitioning to the District Model

It’s true! Israel is transitioning to the District Model in the 2017 Season. Welcome, Israel, to the District family!

Subdivision Names

In the 2017 Updates Blog we said we would be effectively adding four subdivisions to the eight we have now, bringing the total to 12 across both Championships. Here is the list of folks we are honoring by naming Championship subdivisions after them:

Marie Daly (d.2003)

Biochemist and the first black American woman to earn her PhD in Chemistry in the United States. She completed groundbreaking work on the causes of heart attacks and was an activist in getting minorities enrolled in medical schools and graduate science programs.

Charles Darwin (d.1882)

Discovered (co-discovered?**) the Theory of Evolution.

Emily Roebling (d.1903)

Even with no formal engineering education, still effectively drove the Brooklyn Bridge to completion for over ten years after her husband, official Chief Engineer for the project, became incapacitated with Caisson disease.

Alan Turing (d.1954)

Pioneer in the field of computer science. Creator of the concept now called the ‘Turing Machine’.

Subdivision Assignments

These new subdivision names, along with our existing names, will be assigned to the Championships as follows:

FIRST Championship Houston

Carver

Galileo

Hopper

Newton

Roebling

Turing

FIRST Championship St. Louis

Archimedes

Carson

Curie

Daly

Darwin

Tesla

Even more about 2017 to follow soon.

Frank

* Bride of Frankenstein: I know this film is from 1935, but it’s safe to say your cultural education is incomplete until you’ve seen it, in the same way your gustatory education is incomplete until you’ve eaten the Blazin’ Buffalo Chicken Macaroni and Cheese from Mr. Mac’s in Manchester, NH. Seriously, that’s some tasty mac and cheese.

** Alfred Russel Wallace