Job Corp
 

We are the only Job Corp out of the 119 centers to compete in FIRST.

We recieve credit in school for working on it.

We are a rookie team with no mentoring from other team

If we go to nats, we plan to bring less people than we do to regionals

FLL and all work policy
 

Our team is the only FIRST team to hold a FIRST Lego League State competition in our high school. We fund the FLL tournament ourselves, with help from parents, volunteers, and returning team members.
We also have a student work policy. The engineers and NC State University students help us, but the robot is built and programmed, and the animation is created, by our students.
The robodogs also have a structure like a bussiness with a Board of Directors, 5 sub teams (including a parents team), and managers.
Oh, and you can't forget Ms. Kellogg (aka K) 'id rather be slow then dead.'

Umm... we're moving 2x faster than last year due to organization and we'll be done by Friday easily... and yes, it's quality. You should see the gear boxes, omniwheels, and stacking mechanism we designed and had machined by our sponsor... testing some final stuff before taking it part and having framed welded (than current bolts), switching wooden electronics board with lexan, and then driving it... the final 2 weeks are pretty much free for debugging programming and final adjustments.

Not the only one....

We just got a new building for our tech magnet built, so the old building was bare except for the occasional "WARNING: ASBESTOS" signs. So on one of my friends trek's into the building, he relized they were going to tear the old buildign down with the fire extinguisher's still in it...Well, you can guess what happened from there....

Last year our team was made up of 12 Seniors, 1 Junior, 2 Sophmores, and 1 Freshmen

This year 1 Senior, 2 Juniors, and 2 Sophmores and, 17 Freshmen (only 12 or 13 Freshies come to most of the meetings)

Not real nething special but that is a whole lotta Probies!!!!!

Last year our team was made up of 8Seniors, 1 Junior, 3 Sophmores, and 2 Freshmen

This year 2 Senior, 4 Juniors, and 2 Sophmores and, 0 Freshmen

Re: FLL and all work policy
 

Nope, sorry dude, Our team also held a state FLL tournament in our high school gym

My team, team 191 the X-Cats, were one of the founding teams of FIRST, and we have been in FIRST all 13 years!
We are the ONLY team to ever win the chairmans award twice!
We are 2/3 girls
GO X-CATS!

Re: Job Corp
 

That's probably not as unusual as you would imagine. Even for novice teams like mine (5yrs) or even the X-Cats (13 yrs).

It's just a matter of funding and probably a lot of other factors.

1992
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I count 12 years...
This is the 2nd time in the past few days someone from a TWELVE year team has jumped the gun by a season... :D

Re: FLL and all work policy
 

Nope, we hold the Wisconsin state FLL tournament here at our high school, and also help out at the Appleton regional (held at one of the middle school.) :)

- Katie

Our robots name is rinol

ummm... our robotics club has only 1 adult. He is not an engineer or machinist, but a physics teacher. We have no access to any engineers, college students or machinists. This may not be entirely in the spirit of FIRST, but we can say that our bot is built entirely by high school students

And our name...

We X-Cats are so eager that we can't wait to get to the 13th year!:p

For anybody that was at the Silicon Valley Regional event at the San Jose Event Center, in San Jose, California. They probably saw our drivetrain, it seemed we were the only ones that used a timing belt pulled by pulley's

Quite a few people came by and commented on it. Though *when it works* it is effective, we had a LOT of problems with it. The tread slipped off numerous times and we broke 3 of those cheap tranny's they gave us. As one of my teammates said to someone who asked about our drivetrain: "Everyone likes our drivetrain but us"

It's a pain in the butt to maintain, but oh well.

btw, if you didnt know we are team 409 :ahh: