This thread is for rookie teams to introduce themselves and tell everyone a little about your team… Here is the info for my new team:
Number: FRC 3945 Name: Cobra Robotics School: Whites Creek Comprehensive High School Location: Nashville, TN Number of students: 15 (hopefully…) Grant Application(s): JC Penny, NASA
**Corporate Sponsor(s): ** Nissan North America, Inc Regional Attending: Queen City
**Team Info: ** This team is comprised of students who are currently on a BEST Robotics Team. The BEST team is in its 3rd season right now, with good results, so I convinced the school to join the big leagues this year… Looking forward to introducing the kids to the chaos that is an FRC build season!
Number: FRC 3940 Name: CyberTooth School: Northwestern High School Location: Kokomo, IN Number of students: 12 Grant Application(s): jcpenney
**Corporate Sponsor(s): ** AndyMark, Inc., Haynes International Regional Attending: Boilermaker Regional
**Team Info: ** We’ve got a new team from Northwestern High School here in Kokomo, IN. We’re being helped by other FIRST teams in the county. Our shop is located at AndyMark. Some of our mentors include Mark Pendergast, Mark Koors, Brant Bowen, and Andy Baker. We’re currently building a robot for CAGE Match, and it’s almost done.
This is the first time I’ve officially been part of a team, but I’ve been around and involved with FIRST all of my life. This is also my first post on Chief Delphi.
Team 3940, CyberTooth, is looking forward to the 2012 season and having fun!
I gotta say that I am jealous… Mark and Andy are awesome mentors for a rookie team, they will steer you right! I am starting the first FRC team in the Nashville area, but finding other mentors has been a trick - they don’t “Get IT” down here yet. Congrats on the team, I am sure you will be well led!
Number: FRC 3928
Name: Unnamed (coming soon)
School: Ames High School
Location: Ames, Iowa
Number of students: 10-20
Grant Application(s): jcpenney, NASA,
Corporate Sponsor(s): Many potential (working on it)
Regional Attending: Midwest
Team Info: A bunch of FRC Alumni at Iowa State University and a few professional mentors determined Ames needed a team again, used to have team #44 back in the day, may try getting that back sometime.
Got kids, space, some money, and tools.
Number: FRC 3929
Name: Atomic Robotics or (RoboMasters)
School: Masterman High School & Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus
Location: Philly, PA
Number of students: 10-20
Grant Application(s): jcpenney, Boeing, PECO, Comcast, Wawa, PNC
Corporate Sponsor(s): Boeing, GP Precision Inc, NextFab Studios
Regional Attending: MAR Qualifier Events: Chesnut Hill & Mt. Olive
Team Info: Bunch of FRC alumni at UPenn and Drexel from 191, 11, 1923, and others, with amazing engineers from Boeing. List of mentors. We’ve got some money (hopefully more coming soon), work space, machine shops, and great partnerships in the city as well as the EWCP behind us when we need help.
Disclaimer: Not a rookie - sorry to hijack this thread
A very key component to having a sustainable robotics team is making & keeping your partners and sponsors happy.
I’d like to remind everybody that a very strong supporter of FRC and FRC rookie teams is a company known as JCPenney.
That is all.
Please continue your regular introductions - welcome to FIRST*!*
Number: FRC 3931
Name: Cockadoodle Dominators
School: Chickasha High School
Location: Chickasha, OK
Number of students: 30 -40
Grant Application(s): JC Penney/Will.i.am, NASA
Corporate Sponsor(s): Working on one
Regional Attending: Oklahoma, Greater Kansas City(hopefully)
Team Info: We are a rural team in a town of 16,000, but are getting a lot of support from the community. The kids are wide eyed and excited and I am trying to give them a crash course in FIRST to get them prepared.