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.
1418 Competes at the Championship Competition
This past weekend, the team traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to compete at the Championship competition. The team uncrated the robot and did some work on it Wednesday night. All of Thursday morning was spent making more modifications to the bot and passing a rigorous inspection process.
We Are First-Place Alliance Winners at the FIRST Virginia Regional AND VCU GP!
We have just returned from Richmond, where Team 1418 was a member of the first-place alliance at the FIRST Virginia Regional. In addition, the team received a "Gracious Professionalism" award from Virginia Commonwealth University. This was in addition to the "Gracious Professionalism" award from FIRST which they received two weeks ago at the DC Regional (where they led the second-place alliance).
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/
