Team 176 Aces High, we represent Windsor Locks and Suffield CT high schools. Hamilton Sundstrand is our primary UTC sponsor and Pratt and Whitney World Wide Repair also support us.
This is our 11th year. We won the National Championship in 1999. Our lead engineer, Dave Leenhouts won the Woodie Flowers award at the UTC regional last year. We have won a wide variety of the other awards at regional and national competitions.
This year our coach is one of the drivers from 1999. Our base driver for this years robot also drove us to victory at the 2004 BAE regional and to the finals of the 2004 Newton Field. This combination has led to success in 2006 at BAE (finalist) and UTC (winners with UTC partners 177 and 1124)
The time and energy put in by the engineers from UTC has been inspiring for our team and based on the success of the other teams, they have been inspiring there too. We are lucky to have such strong engineering partnerships and we should always remember the thank the engineers and machinists who help us every year.