Welcome to Team 1418!
FRC Seminar was a great success Dec 2009
For updates on the 2010 year, Click here
We are the the robotics team of George Mason High School (GMHS) in Falls Church, Virginia. We compete in events sponsored by FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
We just made the finals!
We are currently the 4th ranked team for the whole DC Regional! Stream live here, you can see us, DC, they should have archives here too:
http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/2010_frcwebcasts.php#webcasts
See you at the the DC Regional!
Practice Thursday 3/4/2010, Play Friday and Saturday!
Event Info: http://dc-first.org/dc-regional
Team List: http://frclinks.com/e/dc
Seven Days to Scrimage in DC
... and 10 days to ship day! We'll be working from 10am on Saturday (2/13/2010) and Sunday and hopefully Monday. We have a center power kicker, two corner swinging arms, and a grappling hook, We need to tweak, tune, get all this reliable and drive, drive, drive. Oh and did I meantion creating autonmous code -- with camera? no problem! It's going to be great game!
Snow Attacks Robot, FIRST: Robot Shipping Date Unchanged
This is not the best news from FIRST. However, the faithful have been working whenever the school building has been open this week. Mr. Ballou is digging out his car as I send this, and he will call the telephone tree if he is able to get into school later today. It is likely that even if school is closed on Friday, and the parking lot is plowed, there will be adults and students working on the robot on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
-- From an email from Cricket
We drove all weekend!
Everybody worked really hard and produced a drivable six wheel drive vehicle. It was fast and could spin in place with a tiny movement of the joystick! The plan is to do a evening session on Wednesday 1/20/2010 -- so alums and mentors: drop by and check out what they've done!
xkcd on FIRST
thought you guys would get a kick out of this :) xkcd.com/689/
"Omnidirectional Drive Systems" by Ian Mackenzie
Charlie, our newest mentor wanted to post this great paper "Omnidirectional Drive Systems" (PDF) by Ian Mackenzie
Kickoff is Saturday morning Jan 9 , 2010.
A bunch of us are meeting at the school Saturday Morning and driving to the local kickoff. The classroom will be an alternative viewing area for people that are not going to the kickoff.
Tell your friends to tune in at home online and on NASA TV: January 9th, 2010. The presentation runs from 10:00AM EST to 12:30AM EST
mr lotts.
Get Involved in the 09-10 Season
As the new school year has begun, the new robotics season has also started. Even though kick-off isn't until January, the team has been holding meetings every Tuesday after school in Mr. Ballou's room to get things organized and to be prepared for whatever might come our way.
This year, the team is hoping to be able to assist other teams that need help, and to be open for any questions posed by others.
