pic: The Triplets are Coming To Atlanta!!

[Chris V 1503]

Hey all, I'm one of the drivers in the niagarafirst.org teams. I'm with team 1503, really all I can say is that with 1114 mentoring us we did pass a large learning curve, it helped us to learn these things alot quicker and made us able to come up with a robot that is actually way better than I had expected at the beginning of the year.

Each team between us has their own driving styles, for example: our three teams have a arm system that all we have to do is push buttons on the controllers and on a button box that we had made and it would do picking up tetra's off the floor, from the auto loader and even a loading position for the human player. It also has the ability to cap goals with these buttons, including the centre goal. The system also had it so we can manually do things incase something was wrong with the program or the robot. Anyone who was at the Toronto Regional would of seen these buttons being used. Myself, I no that 1114 loves to use these buttons, as does 1680 although I don't. At first I found them confusing, at times I still do, especially when your in a match and your being pushed and you have to cap at the same time. But the way we think when we are in a match is totally different. Like as said above when 1114 tipped 1503, when we are in a match against each other, we treat them as they are just a regular team to us. Off the field and at home we work together, have fun together, and even argue together at times.

But I'm am glad we had 1114 to mentor us, I learned more than I ever thought I would in a single year being with them instead of being on our own.

[Stephen Kowski]

I had heard good things about these bots, but I was EXTREMELY impressed with 1114's performance in Archimedes....so I assume the others were just as solid. What an impressive job done by the NiagraFIRST.org alliance. Wow!

[Mr. Lim]

We were cheering on the 2/3 NiagaraFIRST alliance too! They didn't make it out of the quarters, but who couldn't cheer for 1503 and 1680 hooking up to make a run for the big prize. Two rookie teams with such great potential.

What a successful year to all three teams!

Friendly rivalry between 188 and 1114 aside, we're looking already looking forward to working with (or against ) you all next year!!!

-SlimBoJones...