[StephLee]

Our design was incredibly simple. Two bars for height, the arm(a 2' 8'' stick of the same kind of metal as the rest covered in padding) mounted on the front one on a hinge so it would fold up for the dimension restrictions, the back bar is stationary, and the front bar moves up, operated by a winch system. Our base had a pretty thick shell, which made it bottom-heavy and not at all tippy.

We couldn't stack on the center, but we could stack two high on the smaller ones with no trouble, and we could push other bots around, though we only got to try that once.

We were at Chesapeake too, and we were picked by team 614 along with 339(thanks guys!!!) for the finals. We wound up 29th out of 55. We're also a rookie team.

We're changing our motto next year to be "servo es simplex", which is Latin for "keep it simple." We would have had "servo es simplex bardus"(keep it simple stupid), but our head mentor cut it short...