De Anza Rejected

[Kevin A]

Hello,
As the title states, De Anza Robotics team wasnt accepted. We had been conditionally accepted...but got turned down today. They wont explain their decision, just said no.
On the good side, they would like us to attend the QID event because we had a strong strategy and a good team.

Remember that were were a group of 4 HS kids and 1 mentor doing all this work. We worked our butts off, spending our summer break doing hardware and all school year working on auto. We had succesfully made our 1990 Geo Tracker into a remote control car. We could start, run, shift, break, throttle and steer all from remote control. We had just gotten the GPS to control the car, with a few bugs. i feel that we were a team with very strong potential, but we didnt want to bust our budget until we had been accepted.

We took the car to the local racetrack to do some autonomous testing, and on the first day, some idiot drove the car of the trailer and steered it, but the steering column lock was on, so we broke it steering motor. That idiot was me..ohh well. Fixed the car that day, but had to go home. Came back up 2 days later on thursday, to try and get the auto to work...no luck, turns out that rain and a javalin stamp dont mix. Here is the article - http://www.infineonraceway.com/news_..._3/398460.html

We also had an article in the paper - http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/c...ws/7331584.htm

So the good news - i have a christmas break.