We are the only team that has our fundraising manager plan our build schedule. At least I hope we are.

I'm sure there are larger teams. This is our travel team from 1997. We left about 20 people behind because they failed to meet travel requirements. (Grades dropped from beginning of year, didn't meet fundrasing goals. etc..)

I will say that having a PGA golf course is pretty unique.

http://www.tj2.org/1997/imagepages/team97.html

I'd have to say the ability to cook up things so fast. ;)

This is only year 2 for us and we already have some reeeeealy good experience :D

Unique?

We're the only team from Europe
Pink Floyd went to our school and wrote "Another Brick in the Wall" about it
I dont know if its unique but we have a fully metric robot ;)

We have 37 kids and 24 adults. And this is one of our smaller teams. Back in the day the team went over a hundred members in 1995 . I doubt we'll get that big again.

Our team usually starts out the year with 60+ students, but by the time the build comes around the impatient ones quit and we end up having 20-25 students that attend the championships. I wonder what scares these kids away. Actually, I can think of several things, and this could be an interesting thread idea

we're pretty notorious for cleaning up... You'll find us helping out in the stands and in the playing field helping out/cleaning up in anyway we can after competitions. At least the janitors appreciate us. :)

Our name is SPAM

Can't get any more unique.

Unless you name your team Manwich.

Hamburger Helper?

The team i am on(Hart High)
 

we are actually a "rookie" team every year, since we only have about 3 people from the previous year, everytime we have entered the first competition, we completely design it, our teacher just says, "no, we dont have enough money for that". :D

Rookie team winning a regional last year -- and as one of the drafters, not draftees. We teamed us with Brazil and Hawaii teams.

Our team is relatively small (10-15), I can't see how you could do anything with 50+ people.

We may soon have a pizza company as our sponsor (free pizza!)

We were probably the only team to use unmodified fisher price motors and gearboxes as our drivetrain last year.

We also had duct tape on our wheels :)

This year, our robot is going to have a drivetrain that is at least 300% more powerful, as well as being faster. I don't think there are many teams that can say that :)

depends on how bad you can design your drive train. :-)

Picture this. Direct Drive Seat motors. Hand cut wood wheels.

It wasn't pretty, since the seat motors have thermal limiters in them, and when they overheat, they shut down. (many a time in the match the motor would overheat, and shut down.)

http://www.tj2.org/1996/imagepages/jnj.html

Our team is really small, (5-10 actually dedicated members), but we are really good at what we do. We have only 5 faculty and adult mentors and this was the same size as our team last year (a rookie team that won the Xerox Creativity Award at SoCal.) Our bot's name was R.A.L.P.H (really awesome low rider powered by hampsters). Our team size may be due to the fact that our school 7-12 has a total of 450 kids. We gave out the most wanted giveaway last year at SoCal regionals (tortional yo-yos). Our team is just a bunch of nerds wanting to get a head start in life. Not much else though, we are just a normal team with normal goals.

Explain! What is a tortional yo-yo!

Our team is unique by being the FIRST team (I think) to experiment with a blind drive system that makes the robot able to essentially be controlled by a person who is vision impaired. Code named I.D.A.N. or Intelligent Detection And Navigation system, this feature won us the Leadership in Controls Award at last years NYC Regional. If you would like more info on IDAN, PM me or search for "IDAN" on the search engine on these forums.

We were rookies twice:D

hey alex message me on MSN or yahoo

vandals_sxe_punk at yahoo

or
willyg76@hotmail.com

my AIM is messed up and i need some help with somethin

We have NO Seniors what so ever...we're all rookies...and I believe we don't have any full time engineers yet...AND we're the last of 16 FORD teams!:D

You ain't seen nothin until you see my Alaska robot......bahaha
 

My team builds everything by ourselves. We don't send anything out to get fabricated/built. We don't have any engineers, just 2 super smart high school teachers. Obviously it works, because last year as a rookie team we won Delphi's "Driving Tomorrow Technology" at the Pacific Northwest Regional in Seattle and posted one of the highest qualifiying scores in a single round in the nation. (Ya, remember the gumball machine?) Anyways, I think I'm rambled on long enough, we'll see you at regionals.


Team 998

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!

We do have Ronnie Tront doing pneumatics for us and other stuff remember?

Who?!(Nowadays, I don't know who's on the team and all that stuff...):confused:

Umm...we have the weirdest team with the weirdest talent?

Weirdest? Among FIRST teams? A bold claim indeed. :)

Well, it is true we don't have any FULL TIME Engineers, but believe me, we're trying to get some.

We have a theme song!

And ive heard it so many times it haunts my dreams....

we have Bill:




-Team19

Ok... Well, I was wrong about the getting full time engineers thing. We only have Ronnie Tront, John Vukovich, and Matt Rizzo helping us along with a few additional engineers who are parents of some of our team members.

Our Team (648 Quad City Elite) represents two states. We are from Sherrard, IL and Davenport IA. Our robot name is Oiy (Organized Iowa/Illionis Youth). :D

bill, bill, i know i've seen that kid before... did team 19 go to nationals?


we're the only team with a lucky piece of wood (it has its own hanging place on one of the closet doors the school gives us, all to its self when we have no storage space and hang all our tools on those doors...)

yup yup.. good ole bill.. he was our driver last year at nationals... he's special...

We may actually be the team with the most school districts covered by our team area. This year, we have members from Waverly, NY; Athens, Troy, Towanda, and Northeast Bradford, PA. Our team area covers in addition another 3 school districts, one Christian School, and many homeschools.

We cover two states and two counties. We pull members from small cities to villages with a popultaion of less than 50.

We branched from one team which is now three teams..84, 222, 284.

..... we have a ManDad :p

Our team is special because our team was started by alumni from the Gila Monster that are attending the University of Arizona the best school ever!!!! Also because we have all known each other for a couple of years and really love robotics.

Did your team attend the 2001-02 ramp riot?

we got ducks

We're the only team that has managers who don't manage and moderators who don't moderate :P and we're proud of it!

We're S.P.A.M. and we got capes!!!:D

Hm, where to start-

We've moved between 4 differant work spaces over the past 5 years, and we currently have no sponsor.

:eek:

Are you trying to kill us all, Master?
My god, that was ghastly...

RAPTAR is an all-homeschooling team...
We have plenty of time for FIRST...
We have had a few issues this year w/ the kit but overall, we're making some great progress!

For all those who were at the Southern California Regionals last year, you might remember us . . .

"Team 990 needs a miracle. If anyone can provide a miracle, please see Team 990."

Aaaah, John caught so much flak for that one.

So are we...
 

So what's so special about it?

=)


#1156 - The #1 Rookie team from Brazil in 2003.

We are building our robot in an abondoned Mexican restaurant that smells really bad. Also, I bet we are the only team who had a member get the crazy idea to spray a fire extinguisher just to see what would happen. It took forever to clean up!

TEAM 341 WAS THE FIRST TO HAVE A TEAM CD. JUST THOUGHT PUT IN A PLUG TO THE MEDIA DEPARTMENT.:D

Re: So are we...
 

That's special 'cause:

We are the first Brazilian team
In 3 years we won two regionals and two awards, including the Judges Award
And we are very happy for having other Brazilian schools learning with us :D
And to us the fact of being Brazilians is special and we are proud of it.

Members of #383
The Brazilian Machine

#383 - The first brazilian team ever :yikes:

...we have a bankrupt abandoned Ames department store for our complete control of!!!!!...... playing field !

...enough said :)

Hey neighbor, our team last year had 2 members fill up the auto shop and empty the fire extinguisher. Must be the beach air!

Wow! Has any other team in here ever used a fire extinguisher?

Did anyone else ever name their robot after a flower? :D Don't think so..

Our team got the old inschool room (really depressing I might add)

what makes team 1201 different is that all the students are not just from one school we are from 5 different ones in one county. we were the first team in north Mississippi to ever to compete and get a NASA grant. Some of our students are the smart quiet type, some are loud and obnoxious, some are into piercings and tattoos, some (like ME) just like to have fun and are a little CRAZY! Also our teacher is about as crazy as we are and likes to have fun just like we do. This is our first time ever competing and our community has backed us all the way. And our robot has a very interesting story behind it about one of our students at the center. We cant say just what it is because we hope to keep it secret until the unveiling before we ship, but keep in contact and I will tell ship date!

Well, with team 1077, we all branched off from another FIRST team, there are only 10 of us (its scary, im used to looking around and seeing like 60), we all have our Engineers that had been working on the previous team since they were in High School, and our now College graduates,we consist of about 4 or 5 schools, and we all build Battle Bots. LOL!

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:

Moe socks.... We are the only team with signed Moe socks...

Flashy tie dye shirts (for me pants, socks, and head wear)

Buttons Buttons Buttons ( I have over 200)

One of the biggest teams...

Don't worry we feel your pain too. We have a unique crab steer design that we were having problems with for a while but it is now taken care of for the most part. We like to refer to our robot in general as "A ballerina in a mosh-pit."

What makes 393/Full Metal Jackets Special...

~Our high school has an enrollment of 271 students and yet we have on average 30 kids on our team each year, after we make cuts!

~I am married to the team leader of team 234/CyberBlue, which makes for an interesting/stressful life at our house.

~This year, we have a female robot, named Scarlet! :)

~We have only one engineer and one parent volunteer to help us.

~Our adult leaders/mentors/students are like family.

our robot was held together by giant staples :D

and, the bottom line in my signature.

(try saying THAT 10 times fast ;))

Re: TechnoKats...
 

Actually, clark, we used to have NorthWestern school partnered with us as well. Also, we have had various team names. But you're right, we are one of the originals

We, 296, were the first only team in the whole of Quebec (the largest province in Canada) until this year, our 5th.

We seem to be the only Canadian team who shows up to the regionals in the new england area.

We have a crazy guy on our team who wears a chicken suit and runs around at regionals, although we have no mascot and no relation to chickens.

We never fundraise 'cause our school doesn't let us (there go all hopes for a chairman's award)

Our driver also makes up the larger half of the animation team, is the only programmer, does all the wiring, most of the pneumatics, and a fair portion of mechanical work.

Oh yeah, and we all speak french fluently.

Everything. :rolleyes:

On a more serious note..."Couch Bot."

Mascots. At our regionals we probably had the most diverse mascots than any other team. Pirates, astronaut suit, oh my. Those were some of the reasons why we got to be rookie of the year twice. Cheering sections comprised of our team and team 692 (all-girl team who stomped everyone at the Sacramento Regional). we made sure that we were the loudest and largest group there.

*envy*

Our team does a lot of yelling at each other. It is just the cultural nature of many of the students on our team. Many of our students are Armenian and the language is said in a yelling angry sort of way. We are also a very diverse team although we have only 17 students. The nationalities on our team (in no particular order) are

Armenian
White
Chinese
Korean
Persian
Indian
Egyptian

Cool huh?

hehe, seems you speak fluent english too : P

you guys couldnt make it to the canadian regional?.. i saw like only one quebec team.. i think 1129

our team is made up of two schools and we absolutely HATE each other in everything else but robotics... for example:


3 years ago they cut down a large tree worth several thousand dollars in the middle of the senior quad

we retaliated by spray painting their gym and all over their brand new sports facilities

fights have been known to break out at parties, burger kings, anywhere else possible, especially sporting events

(edited)
We are also thinking of letting a third school join our team, and this school is another hated rival of my school, not so much of the other school, but it will be funny to see the three working together.

We went to the canadian regional last year, but this year it landed right during Spring Break. We went to BAE and UTC instead, easier for shipping too.

Yeah, 1129 is the rookie team here in Montreal who ended our term as the only montreal or quebec team.

We have about 40-45 kids on our team... We always make the loudest noise...

:D Very Cool!!!

I didn't notice any yelling while you were at our facility.

Well...
 

Whats unique about my team well there is nothing really wait there is one thing we have a NELLY.

1043
 

Well, we had a great rookie year and our team mascot is the Energizer Bunny. We wear pink bunny ears during our matches. Since we are a religously affiliated school, we have a big problem. The Rabbi won't let the students operate the robot on Saturday, so we need to recruit drivers from other teams to operate our bot. Since our school is new, our rookie team consisted of 6 students which was about 20% of the entire school body. We rotate drivers, operators, etc. so everyone gets a chance to play. We never give up. Our robot really was like the enegizer bunny. It kept going and scored 25 points in all but 1 of the qualifiers. We won the SVR Rookie all-star on the 1st day.

What makes our team special this year is that out team worked on our robots, we had no "professional help" (except for welding, and automode). We saw a lot of teams that had only adults work on their robot in the pit. We where proud of our robot each time it performed because it was our work.

Go RamTech

We designed, machined and assembled everything with very very little adult help. We have 4 welds and 2 CNC pieces that were not done by the students. The only time engineers would step in is if we were really screwing up. We did auto mode ourselves too. You will never find adults working in our pit, or anywhere else really.

Six is good... But 8 is better...

Team 25 bets against me each year! I lost the bet in 2000 and had my head shaved on Good Morning America as the result.

But it has grown back and is ready for another go if lightning strikes twice!!

What I want to know is how come my kids bet on my shaving or disfigurement!!!?

WC cool:

We're a SMALL team
 

Our team is unique in that it is one of the smallest teams in FIRST. We had about 3 students and 2.5 adults as "regulars" this year. We had 3 students and two adults at our regional. That should change next year, since we'll be in a new, and much larger school.

oh yeah, one more thing: where the only team with Cirilo on it. AHHHHH!!!

Lets see, what makes our team special. Umm, we ranked 33 out of 37 at Phoenix regional than were were finalists in LA. I am the only fifteen year old female welder for our team. We were national champions in 2001 but then did horribly in 2002. (Oh it was bad!) We have an open house every week. The senator of California came to visit us. We are the only team (as far as I know) to have a full out mural and every side of the crate, including the top.Click here to see pictures

We have a ten year old member that completely designed, built, and programmed a robot from the edurobotic kit all by himself. We have sophmore as a team captain..well soon to be sophmore, i am a freshman right now. No, the seniors weren't to happy about it. Don't think there is anything else. :)

we're diverse ! =P

Our robot’s on Hot or Not :D

And we didn’t even put it there…