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Hello all! My name is Mei and I am a part of Project Y which is a FRC robotics team that is supported by FIRST, in Los Alamos, NM. This is a STEM fueled organization that creates competitive games, for people around the world to join.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The team is raising money for various reasons, including transportation, fees for competition/registration, parts for new robots, and just for our team in general so we can have successful years to come. WE ARE GOING TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! All following information is if you are interested in knowing what we actually do.
“Participating on a robotics team doesn’t just benefit the kids who will go on to work in engineering, mechanical, or computer science fields. By building critical work-life skills like creative problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork, FIRST robotics programs prepare every student for the future—one where each of us must have the skills to adapt quickly to changing technology and environments, to collaborate across cultural and geographical borders, and to drive innovations that will make the world a better place.”
- FIRST President, Donald E. Bossi
The game changes every season, but usually involves throwing/placing objects -pieces, in robotics slang- into something and having our robot climb. We have to rebuild our robot every year in order to rise to the challenge. This year our robot's name is Jaws (like a shark). The game's theme is DEEP SPACE, where there is a cargo ship and rocket that robots score points on. Hatch panels, which are large round discs, are one of the game pieces that you attach via velcro to side holes on the cargo ship and rocket, this makes a box shaped enclosure with a hole on top. Cargo, large rubber balls, are then thrown into holes on top, where hatch panels are already attached or the cargo will roll out. There are 8 places to score on the cargo, and the holes are "low to the ground", considered level 1. The rocket has 6 places to score, but includes 3 levels, where the holes are higher each level. At the end of the game there is a hab zone that the robots want to get onto, it includes 3 levels as well, depending if you want to climb. The higher the level the more points. Jaws can shoot cargo and place hatches with two different mechanisms attached to opposite sides of the robot's frame. Jaws also climbs the level 2 platform. I would like to thank our sponsors for all their support and funding, including LANL, LANB, the Los Alamos Public Schools, ASME, and Rotary International. For competitions, we start with qualification rounds where it's a 3v3 style game, and you win by scoring more than the other team. At the end, there are 8 top ranked robots (based on ranking points, that you can get by winning, and during certain things during the game.) These teams create an alliance, where they choose two robots to be on their team.
This year I decided to be the coach, I strategize with my own team and alliance on how to play each match, for the drive team (drives around the robot), and we have had a very successful year. Our first district game was in El Paso, we ranked 6th overall, and were picked by the 3rd ranked alliance, where we made it to finals, the last round of eliminations! We even got recognized in our newspaper, the Daily Post. During our second district game, we made it to quarterfinals! We went to State Championships, where 64 robots from across the Texas district competed in Austin, Texas. From our performance we have been invited to the World Championships, where robots from all countries with a connection to FIRST compete. We placed 27th overall out of 194 teams in the district, and 42 qualified teams for World's! If you would like to see how the game works, you can click the attached link to one of our games: linkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVMRAKFWd6xyq59KaN5F0Hys0EYSQIId/view?usp=sharing . The team is raising money for transportation and the fee to compete, since there are no competitions in New Mexico, meaning we always have to go somewhere out of state, which is quite expensive for us. For World's we are going to Houston, Texas.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The team is raising money for various reasons, including transportation, fees for competition/registration, parts for new robots, and just for our team in general so we can have successful years to come. WE ARE GOING TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! All following information is if you are interested in knowing what we actually do.
“Participating on a robotics team doesn’t just benefit the kids who will go on to work in engineering, mechanical, or computer science fields. By building critical work-life skills like creative problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork, FIRST robotics programs prepare every student for the future—one where each of us must have the skills to adapt quickly to changing technology and environments, to collaborate across cultural and geographical borders, and to drive innovations that will make the world a better place.”
- FIRST President, Donald E. Bossi
The game changes every season, but usually involves throwing/placing objects -pieces, in robotics slang- into something and having our robot climb. We have to rebuild our robot every year in order to rise to the challenge. This year our robot's name is Jaws (like a shark). The game's theme is DEEP SPACE, where there is a cargo ship and rocket that robots score points on. Hatch panels, which are large round discs, are one of the game pieces that you attach via velcro to side holes on the cargo ship and rocket, this makes a box shaped enclosure with a hole on top. Cargo, large rubber balls, are then thrown into holes on top, where hatch panels are already attached or the cargo will roll out. There are 8 places to score on the cargo, and the holes are "low to the ground", considered level 1. The rocket has 6 places to score, but includes 3 levels, where the holes are higher each level. At the end of the game there is a hab zone that the robots want to get onto, it includes 3 levels as well, depending if you want to climb. The higher the level the more points. Jaws can shoot cargo and place hatches with two different mechanisms attached to opposite sides of the robot's frame. Jaws also climbs the level 2 platform. I would like to thank our sponsors for all their support and funding, including LANL, LANB, the Los Alamos Public Schools, ASME, and Rotary International. For competitions, we start with qualification rounds where it's a 3v3 style game, and you win by scoring more than the other team. At the end, there are 8 top ranked robots (based on ranking points, that you can get by winning, and during certain things during the game.) These teams create an alliance, where they choose two robots to be on their team.
This year I decided to be the coach, I strategize with my own team and alliance on how to play each match, for the drive team (drives around the robot), and we have had a very successful year. Our first district game was in El Paso, we ranked 6th overall, and were picked by the 3rd ranked alliance, where we made it to finals, the last round of eliminations! We even got recognized in our newspaper, the Daily Post. During our second district game, we made it to quarterfinals! We went to State Championships, where 64 robots from across the Texas district competed in Austin, Texas. From our performance we have been invited to the World Championships, where robots from all countries with a connection to FIRST compete. We placed 27th overall out of 194 teams in the district, and 42 qualified teams for World's! If you would like to see how the game works, you can click the attached link to one of our games: linkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVMRAKFWd6xyq59KaN5F0Hys0EYSQIId/view?usp=sharing . The team is raising money for transportation and the fee to compete, since there are no competitions in New Mexico, meaning we always have to go somewhere out of state, which is quite expensive for us. For World's we are going to Houston, Texas.
Organizer and beneficiary
Andrew Erickson
Beneficiary