Greatest Success This Season

FIRST General Forum
#61

Best. Season. Ever.

  1. Our First ever Chairman’s Win
  2. First Maryland team in 16 years to make Einstein. (Thanks to 3452, 3683, and 2084)
  3. Our Dean’s List finalist streak has hit 4 years in a row, making this not only the longest active streak in CHS, but the most total DLFs in CHS.
  4. We now have 3 times as manny blue banners as the rest of our county combined (7 other teams)
  5. What is easily our best robot ever was built with almost no mentor involvement. (Not that our mentors didn’t help, but the students designed and built the bot)
#62

Best robot ever.
First student-designed, student-CADed, and almost entirely student-built and programmed robot.
First student-run and organized build season.
First engineering award. (Yee hah! Way to go, “guys”! :cool:)

#63

C.O.R.E. 2062 was #1 seed for the first time at the WI Regional!

#64

Biting off (almost) more than we could chew with a variation of an older iteration of 2767’s swerve drive. (Thanks to 2767 for sharing with us)

Collaborating with 5162 on the swerve drive modules and programming implementation and seeing them make it to St Louis.

Winning our first out of state district banner (Indiana)

#65

We started a new rookie student on-boarding process that I think really transformed how younger students view the team, and how they treat their own membership on it. I think we went a long way to transform that element of high school culture for our students.

#66

It was a great year for our team. Our robot looked pretty, and we won the Industrial safety award (AZ west), gracious professionalism (At AZ west), Woodie Flowers (AZ west), finalist (AZ west) And the gracious professionalism award at Turing/Hopper. We also made some good friends this year from some other teams.

#67

I have to say, I love that this was the best season yet for most

#68

Team 1706, Ratchet Rockers, had our best season ever. At the St. Louis regional (where we won the Innovation in Control Award), we were ranked #2 and were the first pick of Alliance #1. Our alliance (1732, 1706, and 537) won the St. Louis regional. At the Rocket City Regional (where we won the Industrial Design Award), we ranked #4 and were the captain of Alliance #4 (1706, 3490, and 6366). At the St. Louis Championships we were the first pick of Alliance #5 (3419, 1706, and 4481) on Tesla and won our first match ever in the Quarterfinals at the Championships. At the 2017 Missouri State Robotics Championship we were the first pick of Alliance #2 (1806, 1706, and 2357) and ended up as the Finalists. Along with Team 4329, we also hosted the Missouri State Robotics Championship for the first time ever. Overall, the best part of the robot was our autonomous hopper high goal shooting.

#69

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#70

Building off our best season yet in 2016, RoboPride went to multiple off-season competitions and built a dedicated team of young women for 2017.

Season highlights:

  1. Going to Stl Champs (Wildcard, but still…)
  2. Going 5-5 in Curie Qualifications
  3. Successfully dropping a gear off in Auto in our 8th match on Curie (only had two chances to try). Dropped off the final gear at the last second to get 4 rotors in the same match.
  4. Hanging 9/10 times in Curie
  5. Winning the last match ever for RoboPride in an improbable victory.
  6. Graduating six seniors that will never forget their experience in FRC
  7. Inspiring six underclassman to pursue starting new teams next year.
#71

Oh man, where to begin?

For my home team (4159 CardinalBotics), we’ve had our strongest group of rookies joining, learning, and becoming more passionate about FRC than ever before. We finally made it back into Eliminations after a few years, and made so many friends from across the world - and most of the new members took the initiative to make both of those happen. I’d have to say all in all this is the brightest the future has seemed for CardinalBotics.

And for my first-year team (299 Valkyrie Robotics), I couldn’t be more proud of what my students have achieved. While we may not have made it into Eliminations, or have had all that great of a win/loss record, we have had the time of our lives building a team out of what used to be a handful of students with only a bit of electrical experience. The fact that we’ve been able to get ourselves off the ground has been a massive success, and not only are we surviving, we’re thriving.

For myself, I’ve learned more about myself through my first year of mentoring, and have been so fortunate to be able to work with each and every one of my students - they’ve made just as large of an impact on me as I hope I have had on them.

#72