rookie teams at nationals?

[KevinReid]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Just curious, how many of you rookie teams out there actually hurdle? Many of the rookies I have seen are either lapbots or run laps and try to herd.

So my question is, what do you all do and what do you do the best?

Can't wait to meet everyone in Atlanta

Team 2609 - Hurdle quite well and pretty fast with 2 speed Andy Mark transmission. Great team members

We will be attending Atlanta!

Kevin Reid
Kettering Rookie event - Winning Alliance, Quality Award
Waterloo Regional - 4th place Alliance, Highest Rookie Seed, Rookie All Star

[Coach Norm]

Team 2468 from Austin, Texas will be attending Championships representing Lone Star Regional as Rookie All Star. We placed fifth overall in the seeding matches.

We are a speed bot (15 ft/sec) with the ability to herd and knock the ball off. We have an autonomous in which we got four lines at LSR. We have true Ackermann steering with two wheel drive. Our driver has had over 20 hours of practice since we also built a practice bot.

We had an education team, outreach team, website, business team. Our education team did presentations at several of our feeder schools, three area events with engineers and colleges concerning career fairs and career choices.

[astephen68]

Congrats to ALL rookie teams for a successful first year in FIRST. If you still deciding weither or not you should go to Atlanta. Atlanta is a great exepeirce for the students, it s good for meeting new people, having fun, even if you do not do so good in the competition. the Social is fantastic and Atlanta is a great time to bond with your team. My advice is that you should go to Atlanta for the experice and to see the world champion of course too.
Congrats again and hope to see you in Atlanta!!!!!!!

[AmoryG]

Rookie team 2423 will be going to Atlanta! We won the rookie allstars award despite us having a very small community to begin with. I'm very happy with all the support we received from our mentors, team 125 (the nutrons), and the rest of our team. As the team's only student programmer I can say this much. With almost no experience with programming when I joined the team in September, but with a ton of support from my mentors and other teams, I can say recognition is not all about winning, (we placed somewhere in the 40's of 51 teams) but just as important (if not more) is having an organized supportive community who's enthusiastic about what they do.

I guess we'll be there if we get the money and enough people to go.

[santosh]

2415 is going to be there. This is going to be so great.

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Just curious, how many of you rookie teams out there actually hurdle? Many of the rookies I have seen are either lapbots or run laps and try to herd.

So my question is, what do you all do and what do you do the best?

Can't wait to meet everyone in Atlanta

We can hurdle decently well. The most we have done in one match is 2 but with some adjustments we should be able to get that number a bit higher and our auto mode is getting a lot better hopefully.

Hope to meet all you guys at this rookie luncheon thing.
Good luck to everyone

[Boydean]

Team 2430 is going to be attending. We say good luck to all rookie teams that are going to championships.

[Uberbots]

at our regional, team 2621 won the rookie all star award for their great robot and gracious professionalism, as described in the ceremony. I don't know if they have posted to this thread yet, but i will be rooting for you guys in Atlanta

[astephen68]

Good luck to all rookie teams

[Akash Rastogi]

It is great to hear that the rookies this year have successful robots (as was the purpose of this year's game). I am really happy that you all rose to the challenge and have become true FIRST teams. It is also good news to hear that some can hurdle (btw, 2 hurdles is more than many of the veteran teams )

Good luck to all and see you there!!

P.S.-If you need help raising funds to go, visit the FIRST team resources pages.

http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=6876

http://usfirst.org/community/frc/content.aspx?id=7006

[flubber3m]

You guys might want to watch out... at SBPLI one of our rookies took it all... 2487 kicked butt all day and took home regional winner... i'm hoping they make it to Atlanta because they are a team to watch!

Congrats 2487 you guys ROCK!!

[macpanes]

Nemesis 2590 is heading down to GA! We're a rookie team. Our bot makes laps, herds and can knock off trackballs from the track. We banked on our autonomous mode getting three lines on average and an occasional ball of as well.

[CameraManWill]

Team 2556 Will be there as well. We won Rookie All-Star at Bayou Regional. We've already begun to procure funds and there's no way we'll miss this.

Our bot can rabbit around, and we're working on Hybrid.

We might be able to knock off a trackball if they can finish the pnumatics on thursday.

See you guys there. I'll be the guy in the stands with the camcorder probably.

Also, to all the teams who were at the bayou regional, our bot wont be smoking anymore.

We finally learned not to let our programmers mess with our wiring.

[feliks_rosenber]

In Israel, the last 2 years, the Highest Seed and the Rookie All Star awards were given to the same team.

I know about regionals where the Rookie All Star winning team won none of the matches.

[Shmee]

Originally Posted by feliks_rosenber

In Israel, the last 2 years, the Highest Seed and the Rookie All Star awards were given to the same team.

How is it possible for one team to get rookie awards for two years?

GO ROOKIES!!!

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Shmee

How is it possible for one team to get rookie awards for two years?

GO ROOKIES!!!

I think he means that the same team won both awards at the regional. Not that the same team won them two years.

hehe, 500th post.