In addition to competing in the FIRST Tech Challenge, the club has also worked on other robotics and electronics projects. Our other projects are listed chronologically below.
In 2019, two of our mentors designed an intra-mural FIRST Tech Challenge style game for us after our regular FTC season ended. Our club split into four teams and worked on four separate robots, then competed at the end of the school year.
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In 2018, two of our mentors designed an intra-mural FIRST Tech Challenge style game for us after our regular FTC season ended. Our club split into four teams and worked on four separate robots, then competed at the end of the school year. This year, students from the BMMS FTC teams also competed as a fifth team!
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In 2017, two of our mentors designed an intra-mural FIRST Tech Challenge style game for us after our regular FTC season ended. Our club split into four teams and worked on four separate robots, then competed at the end of the school year.
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During the summer of 2016, two of our mentors designed a one-day challenge of building catapults within some design constraints. We had 6 members at the meeting, so we had 3 teams of 2! |
In 2015, two of our mentors designed an intra-mural FIRST Tech Challenge style game for us after our regular FTC season ended. Our club split in half and worked on two separate robots, then competed at the end of the school year. In 2016, we competed in a modified version of Half Time. |
In 2014, a group of 10 students competed in the Northrop Grumman High School Innovation Challenge. The specific competition was called "RACE." We won second place at the Rancho Bernardo campus.
From the Northrop Grumman website: "HSIC challenges student teams to design and build a planetary exploration vehicle capable of efficiently harnessing wind and/or solar energy to move a payload a specified distance. Once it covers this distance it will be in range for a pickup mission. However, student teams that can drop the payload at the payload launcher site (then a pickup mission is not needed!) and move the planetary exploration vehicle safely to a viewing area will receive bonus points. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the energy conversion processes, practical tradeoffs, and current technologies available to utilize wind and solar energy sources." |
In 2013, a group of 10 students competed in the Northrop Grumman High School Innovation Challenge. The specific competition was called the "AVATAR Challenge." We won first place at the Rancho Bernardo campus.
From the Northrop Grumman website: "Student teams are tasked to demonstrate autonomous maneuvering with a VEX robotic kit by maneuvering through an unknown obstacle course. The robot will have to avoid obstacles and exit through one of several known doors of varying difficulty. The challenge is named AVATAR for Autonomous Vehicle Avoidance, Tracking, and Rendezvous, which outlines each of the critical tasks the robots must perform. " |