1)Team Name: Newport Robotics Group
2)Team Number: 948

3)How many people on the team? ~30

4)How many guys? ~27
5)How Many girls? 3
6)What does everyone do PR team, Animation Team, Build/Design Team, Web Site Team

Design Questions
1) How long does it take to design various things on your robot (hours, days) Design takes about 2 days. Final designs are often "just-in-time" designed.

2) Do you prototype first? Very rarely.

3) How many people design things? A few

4) How many people build things? About 10

5) How many hours a day do people put in towards the robot? "Core" team puts in around more than 16 hours a week.

6) Do you get professional engineers to help your team, or is it all teachers and students?

Yes, we have professional engineers. We have two professional programmers, and two who own a machine shop.


Strategy Questions

1) How much experience do your drivers have? (years) 3 years

2) How much experience did your drivers get with the robot? 1 week max.

3) Do you design to do everything well, or do you design to do one specific task extraordinarily?

We design to do everything well, but we go to competition and find out what two things we do best, and actually do only those things.

4) Do you have a very special thing on your robot, some cool design or whatnot? and If so what is it. Please describe it.

After the first day of practice on Thursday at PNWR, we found out our winch motor could get backdriven and let out robot glide down to the floor from the hook. So we used a dremel and hacksaw and created notches on our winch drum and created a ratchet using a servo, a paper clip, and a randomly shaped piece of scrap metal.


5) How much work did you put into the autonomous mode?
1 week

6) What does your autonomous do?
2 modes: ram our goal under opponent's ball release; block opponents ball tee from being triggered


Other information
Speed (fps)
don't know! medium-high
Robustness (1-10) (10 being highest)
9.5
Agility (1-10)
8

During the competition, did you feel that your alliance partner let your team down in some way?
no.
Did you let your alliance partner down in any way?
no.
Where were you seeded before the finals round started (at the end of the qualification matches?)
4th seed
Did you win any awards during the competition (spirit, leadership in control, etc.?)
n/a

Personal Info

What is your name?
[removed]
Age?
11th grade
How long have you been on the team?
3 years (since team creation)
What was your role on the team?
student leader, programmer, webmaster, ...