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 FRC Team History 

Tenth Year: Emu/Floppy Poppy
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This year, we kept our large team size while also making a much better robot. Despite some hiccups along the way, we earned Engineering Inspiration in Mount Vernon and in Portland at the PNW District Championships. We went on to rank in the top half in our division at the Houston World Championships for the first time, and had a Dean's List Finalist.
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We finished one of the animatronic deer, created 2 Micro-Homes using our brand new LEAP Washington Competition, and began a host of other exciting new projects.
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Ninth Year: Violet
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This year, our team had gone from 24 members, to 32, a 50% increase over the previous largest team size. This has been one of the best robots we have made, thus far showing that it can do better than any of our previous robots at our first competition. We competed up to the Pacific North West Regional competition after winning the Chairman's Award at the Mt.Vernon District competition.
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We continued are commitment to our FLL teams and sustained our growth of these teams. Our team also continued our work on special projects such as wheelchair ramps, prosthetics, and robotic deer. We were now missing our senior members but continued to push forward to accomplished great things. From here, we saw that we could only go up and accomplish even more.
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Eighth Year: Duplicity

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A year of great growth, our team more than doubling from last year, increasing from 12 members to 26. We also increased the number of FLL teams for our younger participants, we have grown from two FLL teams back when we built "Agent M" to nine teams which are mentored by members of our FTC and FTC teams.

 

We have a team built half out of freshmen, this means that by the time we have them as seniors, we will have a practically unstoppable team. We won the Chairman's award at our District and Regional competitions, qualifying us for the World Championship in St. Louis. There, we competed in the Curie Division, where we placed 50 out of 75 during the qualifying matches. We also received the Team Spirit Award, which only three other teams were given.

 

Seventh Year: Swishper

 

This was a year of struggle for our team, with much struggling and poor planning as a team, this is a year that told us what not to do when planning for the construction of our robots.

 

Sixth Year: Beetle

 

This was the year our team went to the World Championships in St.Louis Missouri. We got to go to St. Louis because we won the Engineering Inspiration Award. We placed 42nd in the world and got to place this as the year to beat for our team.

 

Fifth Year: Agent M

 

Receiving the Gracious Professionalism Award and a nomination for the Chairman’s Award the previous year spurred our team to look outward this year. We started many events that we had never done before.

 

We mentored two First Lego League teams during the fall for the first time, which was very beneficial to the youth who participated in the event as well as for our team organizationally. It engaged incoming freshmen to stick with our club by making our club more year-round, and it also provided opportunities for new team leaders to develop in the void of our founding seniors’ graduation.

 

We also began work on a bicycle-powered water purification system, a project designed to help people in third world countries transport and purify water.  We also organized two drives: a toothbrush drive for children in Honduras and a video game drive for children in local hospitals.  These and several other projects broadened the scope of our team.

 

Our build season has been a long and busy one this year.  Our robot, Agent M – keeping with the secret agent theme of the year – was designed to climb the pyramid in the game Ultimate Ascent and dunk colored Frisbees in the top of the pyramid.  Construction of most of the robot went smoothly, except for the climbing assembly, in which our team “went down the rabbit hole” on a design that ended up being so difficult that it had to be scrapped a week before bag day.

 

Using our thirty-pound withholding limit, our team then had to undertake the task of building a new climbing assembly in the weeks between bag day and our week 5 regional.  The process was stressful for everyone involved, but once completed, our robot will have a good shot at the regional.  We also have high hopes for our Chairman’s Award interview this year and have a lot to look forward to at the competition.

 

Fourth Year: Captain Awesome

 

This year was the final and impressive performance of our founding members, now seniors. Using their years of experience, our seniors pushed our team to tackle challenges harder than it had ever faced before. Our robot, Captain Awesome, was built to tackle the challenges of Rebound Rumble, the basketball shooting and bridge balancing game designed by the FIRST organization that year.  Captain Awesome was designed to harvest, shoot and dunk basketballs, as well as balance on the bridge during the end game.

 

Our team’s experiences with Captain Awesome taught our team several important lessons.  One was: trying to design a robot to do everything often leads to a robot that can do everything mediocre and very little well. Captain Awesome dunked reliably – in the one point basket –, did not shoot at all due to the last minute design modification to meet inspection, and had difficulty balancing on the bridge because of its high center of mass. Although the robot did not perform superbly in the competition, it was still one of the best years the team has had, tackling new challenges and continually striving to learn and grow as a team.

 

This was also a year of many firsts for our team.  We sponsored our first Weekend Lego Robotics Camp, where we taught a large group of children in grades 3-7 to build and program Lego Robots for the competition at the end of the weekend.  We also submitted for awards for the first time that year, including the Chairmanship and Woody Flowers awards, which further opened our team’s eyes to the vast opportunities our team has to reach out in our community. At our competition, our team also won its first award, the Gracious Professionalism Award, in large part due to our team’s effort in helping other teams in need of parts or expertise during the competition. The award was truly a statement of our team’s focus and gave our graduating seniors a satisfying ending to their four years of work.

 

Third Year: Juno

 

This year was a turning point for us. We decided that we were going to plan our robot for the competition then we were going to design the robot in CAD, it was decided that we would share our ideas and robot designs so we looked at the chief Delphi thread, starting a new thing for us.

 

After the design week, we presented our various ideas to the community and that of our team parents who were able to come and see our ideas. Then they decided on the robot design for the year, starting a tradition of community-chosen robot designs that has continued in our club ever since. We then divided into sub-teams, but We still had roadblocks and they were overcome shortly after with a new design.

 

Our robot, Juno, was an armed claw robot that picked up inner tubes and also deployed a mini-bot that very successfully climbed the pole during competition.  Unfortunately, due to communications issues, for several matches, Juno was not able to perform properly and thus suffered in the rankings.  Yet, recognizing the robot's potential, a team picked us up for an alliance and we went to semifinals, where our team lost after a very close match.

 

Second Year: Nameless

 

This year was the first year when we actually had a large team.  

 

This year's game was Breakaway. The goal was for teams to make a robot that was capable at either defending or scoring goals with soccer balls. The build season started to a rough start. We had several people that had no clue what they were doing, Eventually, members became somewhat pros at their respective roles when it came down to the components of the robot. At the competition, we ran into more problems mostly due to the fact that we had hardly any time to practice with our robot so the only time we could practice was actually at the competition and we learned from that mistake. What happened this year prepared us for the next year.

 
First Year: Flying Brick

 

Our first year as a Robotics Team at Oak Harbor High School, started when a parent came to a teacher and asked if there was someplace where his son could use his skills to do something. From there on out the Oak Harbor Robotics Team began.

 

Our first year we had a total of 5 members. We truly had no idea what we were doing. We built a robot and when we got to the competition we realized that it was overweight, so we took a lot of components off to make it underweight. That point on, we were called the "rolling brick" because we could do nothing but roll around and get in the way of other teams. This year gave us a clear understanding of what to expect at the competition and to be ready for almost everything. The end of our 1st year was the milestone for the OHHS Robotics Club.  

 

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