[Steve W]

As promised, pictures of our grabber. This was designed and built by Philip Wang one of our grade 10 students. When Philip first brought forth the idea I said that it would never work and was way too complex. We continued proto typing other ideas. Philip was relentless and continued to push his idea. I told him to show me a prototype and sent him off. He came back with a crude wooden prototype that seemed to look good and almost worked. He was told to go back and do one in aluminum. After he brought this one forward we knew that we were going with his idea. There was a lot of tweaking and finishing off but when completed we believe that this is the best grabber in FIRST (so maybe I am bias). I was amazed at what Philip came up with and I am very proud of him for pushing this idea and following through. Philip had others helping him from the team and I can say that the grabber is at least 95% student designed and built.