Taking the plunge. . .

[Brandon_L]

Our team is in the middle of this change right now, and its a bit overdue if you ask me.

the past 5 seasons have been mediocre at best. We started our rookie year pretty strong with plenty of support, but after that we were left in the dust in both amount of help our team got, funding, everything. One of the teachers quit the team, and all the other help we got seemed to vanish leaving us with just one mentor. Took him 4 years, props to him, but he finally had enough. He dropped out of the team this year and we're taking this as a reform opportunity, with the help of some local teams its been going good so far.

Were not looking to do anything crazy like win 10 regionals in the next few years, our goal is pretty easy if you ask me. Just consistently participate in eliminations, something we've only done once.

[MARS_James]

I really feel that you have to look at this from two different perspectives when did you decided to compete as a robotics team and when you decided to compete as a FIRST Team. What I mean is that a FIRST Team competes for The Chairmans Award since it is the highest award out there.

In terms of the robot for us it kind of happened on accident to us. In 2005 our rookie year we won an off season event, Mayhem at the Museum. It really invigorated the 12 members for 2006 when we went with a risky design and had a huge boost, we made it to the finals by beating an alliance of tough frc veterans (233, 190, 744).

My freshman year was when we became focused on being a FIRST Robotics Team, with our first team captain graduating the new team captain was NOT a robot builder so his focus was not on the robot and it showed with us receiving the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award, and Regional Chairmans Award in back to back years.

Unfortunately after that year both robots and outreach took a huge drop off after that due to funding and build location but we finally are making the come back to both.