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We are ... Team #136 for FLL for next year!
Well, at least one of our teams is. We are 90% sure we are going to attempt to do 2 teams next year again. More information coming soon!
1/30/2011 - Award Winners from Wisconsin FTC Championship
FIRST Tech Challenge Motivate Award
This award celebrates the team that exemplifies the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition through team spirit and enthusiasm. They show their spirit through costumes and fun outfits, a team cheer or outstanding spirit. This team has also made a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout their school and community.
Team 3785 - The Beastie Bots (winner)
Team 3485 - Da Peeps
Team 38 - The Packbots
FIRST Tech Challenge Connect Award
This award is given to the team that most connected with their local community and the engineering community. A true FIRST team is more than a sum of its parts, and recognizes that their schools and communities play an essential part to their success. The recipient of this award is recognized for helping the community understand FIRST, the FIRST Tech Challenge, and the team itself. The team that wins this award is aggressively reaching out to engineers and exploring the opportunities available in the world of engineering, science and technology. In addition, this team has a clear fundraising goal and plan to achieve that goal.
Team 3529 - Scrap Metal (winner)
Team 265 - Underbots
Team 3785 - Beastie Bots
Rockwell Collins Innovate Award
The Rockwell Collins Innovate Award celebrates a team that not only thinks outside the box, but also has the ingenuity and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This award is given to the team that has the most innovative and creative robot design solution to any or all specific field elements or components in the FIRST Tech Challenge game. Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness, and ‘out of the box’ thinking related to design. This award may address the design of the whole robot, or of a sub-assembly attached to the robot. The creative component must work consistently, but a robot does not have to work all the time during matches to be considered for this award. The team’s Engineering Notebook should be marked with journal entries to show the design of the component(s) and the team’s robot in order to be eligible for this award, and entries should describe succinctly how the team arrived at that solution.
Team 39 - The Gingerbread Men (winner)
Team 4106 - The Supposable Thumbs (us!)
Team 3529 - Scrap Metal
PTC Design Award
The PTC Design Award recognizes design elements of the robot that are both functional and aesthetic. All successful robots have innovative design aspects however the PTC Design Award is presented to teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution. These elements could simplify the robot giving it a clean look, decorate the robot, or otherwise express the creativity of the team. The winning design should not compromise the practical operation of the robots but compliment its purpose.
Team 4106 - The Supposable Thumbs (winner!)(us!!)
Team 2803 - Raptor Robots
Team 265 - Underbots
FIRST Tech Challenge Think Award
This award is given to the team that best reflects the “journey” the team took as they experienced the engineering design process during the build season. The Engineering Notebook is the key reference for judges to help identify the most deserving team. The team’s Engineering Notebook should focus on the design and build stage of the team’s robot. Journal entries of interest to judges for this award will include those describing the steps, brainstorms, designs, re-designs, successes, and those ‘interesting moments’ when things weren’t going as planned. A team will not be a candidate for this award if they have not completed the section of the Engineering Notebook describing the team’s experience.
Team 265 - Underbots (winner)
Team 4106 - The Supposable Thumbs (us again!?!)
Team 3550 - Beta
FIRST Tech Challenge Inspire Award
The Inspire Award is the most prestigious FTC award, and is given to the team that truly embodied the ‘challenge’ of the FTC program. The team that receives this award is chosen by the judges as having best represented a role model FIRST Tech Challenge Team. The team that receives this award is a top contender for all other judging categories and is a strong competitor on the field.
Judges should use match performance, observations made during interviews and in the pit area, and the team’s Engineering Notebook as equal factors in determining the winner of this award.
Team 3485 - Da Peeps (winner)
Team 265 - Underbots
Team 4106 - The Supposable Thumbs (us again! wow!!)
FIRST Tech Challenge Winning Alliance Award
This award will be given to the winning alliance represented in the final match of the competition, usually consisting of three teams.
Team 3785 - The Beastie Bots (winner)
Team 265 - Underbots
FIRST Tech Challenge Finalist Alliance Award
This award will be given to the finalist alliance represented in the final match of the competition, usually consisting of three teams.
Team 2803 - Raptor Robots
Team 2842 - Burnin' Rubber
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1/29/2011 - Congratulations to HCS's rookie FTC team! They competed today at the Wisconsin FTC Championship as their first competition ever. How'd they do? They finished with the 3rd highest qualifying score! They scored the highest aliance score of the day. They likely had the highest individual point total of the day. They got to be a captian for the final aliance bracket and lost their semifinal match 2-1, finishing 3rd overall in the competition. When it came to awards time, they were nominated for 4 awards, including being one of 3 teams nominated for the Inspire Award, FTC's top award! They won the PTC design award for the robust, flexible and innovative robot with an arm/bucket that could both dispense batons and socre them off either side of the robot! What an amazing day for a rookie team at their first tournament! Many thanks to all the experienced FTC teams that helped us through the day.
12/4/2010 - Congratulations again to the Migratory Coconuts, Team 1628 for a fine showing at state in all areas and for winning the State 1st Place Teamwork Trophy!
The kids just missed getting one of the top scores in the final round. With 1/16" (or 8 seconds) they would have had it. But they went for it all and ended up at 260 due to the extra time to re-run one mission in trying to max out. This was after dozens of 300+ runs the day before. But the kids weren't aiming at anything less than everything they could get for points (370) so were happy to get whatever they got if they missed that. They were very proud to have solved every mission on the board but the tissues and pill bucket during competition -- just not all in the same run :). Their most fun was perfecting the patent solution to get the patent in 2 seconds and their stent delivery solution to deliver the stent in under 4 seconds. After the holidays they will continue to work until they get their goal of 400. They have all the solutions and they should fit in under 2 1/2 minutes, so now it is a challenge of robustness. When they get that their coach thinks they should make a new robot to take everything from 400 condition and put it back to start condition. Imagine trying to reset the patent arm or put the syringe back on the ramp or the pills in order back on the table by getting them out of the bucket!
11/21/2010 - Congratulations to the Migratory Coconuts, Team 1628 for winning the Marquette Regional FLL tournament today!
Displaying their amazing robot and attachments, LEGO Digital Designer CAD drawings of the robot and a crazy skit with people losing their arms, they had a great time showing what they learned throughout the season. Next step is the Wisconsin State FLL tournament on Saturday, 12/4.
Two Weeks to Go for our Regional at Marquette High School on Sunday, November 21st
The kids are hard at work finishing off their project skit, presentation materials, robot and game strategy.
Much has been learned and they will be proud of what they were able to accomplish. Come watch us compete!
We are hard at work!
This year HCS will have one FLL team and, for the first time, an FTC team! Both our teams are hard at work.
FLL - The Migratory Coconuts
The FLL team has 10 team members and an 11th member that joined the club to get to know what FLL is all about. With such a big team we are able to make progress in many areas at the same time. We are structured as follows:
Sammy - Overall Captain and Project Captain
Danny - Programming Captain
Jeff - Build Captian
Timothy - Strategy Captain
Elias - Marketing and Teamwork Captian
Joanna - Communications Captain
Sam, Jake, Warren and Daniel are also members of the team along with Joshua who is our "11th Man." He's learning about FLL along side the team as we didn't have enough spots for everyone and still wanted to be "Graciously Professional" and and follow the core values of FIRST by not turning away anyone who wants to learn.
Our captians are supposed to organize the work and goals and help the team achieve their goals in that area. Our goal is "Everyone does some of everything and focuses in on the areas they are good at or most enjoy."
We don't know when we will compete for regionals yet.
Our name comes from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Our team thinks the movie is hillarious and has found a way to merge their research project with their love for the movie!
Currently we are:
- Designing two prototype robots
- Developing line following routines
- Prototyping mission solutions
- Spending a lot of time researching prosthetic arms and the problems people have with them
- Designing our T-Shirts, Banner, Hats and giveaways
- Documenting, Documenting, Documenting!
- Making silly refrences to shrubbery, swallows, coocnuts and the Holy Hand Grenade
"None Shall Pass!"
