Students created individual pages, with their own fundraising targets and progress displayed. Some students added their own videos, as well as describing the impact of FIRST Robotics Competition on their future.

Special thanks go to our Gold Sponsor: Tweed Financial Services!

Team 980 plans to use Piggybackr in future seasons to raise funds and awareness for our program.

Congratulations to our student members for all their efforts this year!

We finished in 18th position out of 65 teams, with a record of 5 wins and 3 losses. Our catapult was successful in scoring Frisbees in autonomous mode and during tele-operated play. We were an alternate robot for the elimination rounds, and remained “on-deck” through the semi-finals and finals of the competition.

Emma, our team captain, won a Dean’s List Finalist Award! Team 980 won the Xerox Creativity award for our novel catapult approach to scoring and defending. Our lead mentor, David Brinza, earned the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award for the Los Angeles Regional.

Team 980 wrapped up a successful 2013 FRC Ultimate Ascent season and is now working towards next year!

The robot operated in every match, with our team compiling a record of 4 wins and 6 losses against a strong field. Our team captain, Emma, shown driving the robot here, sang the national anthem for the crowd on Saturday morning. We had a great time and learned a lot at our first event.

Team 980 is in the home stretch of build season with just two days until we stop work on our robot!

We are meeting Mon-Thurs from 6 pm to 9 pm and Sat from 10 am to 4 pm at 907 Flower St in Glendale.

Here is a CAD image of our robot climbing up the leg of a pyramid:

Week 3: CAD model of Team 980 robot climbing pyramid

Team members are prototyping a frisbee catapult, laying-out electronics and pneumatics, assembling the chassis and drive train, and designing our control system. As an example, we’re deciding how to approach the pyramid leg when ready to climb: can we use the camera or should we design mechanical guides to properly align the robot?

We plan to take our robot to the scrimmage at Harvey-Mudd on Sun. Feb 17 (just 2-1/2 weeks from now).

The new game is called Ultimate Ascent! Here’s the game animation:

This year’s game has some really tough challenges! Teams can score by having the robots toss frisbees into goals on the far end of the field. Teams can also score by having the robot climb a “monkey-bar” pyramid, with three levels of difficulty.

Team 980 will analyze the game, develop our strategy and brainstorm during the first week.

Go, ThunderBots!

Photos of Team 980′s new robot build space

We’re ready for FRC 2013 Season Kickoff on Sat. January 5!

Check it out  here:  FRC_2013_Kick-off_Flyer

This year’s event featured 26 robots competing in a one-day FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Rebound Rumble tournament.
Each robotics team played 6 qualification matches before alliance selections determined the field of six elimination alliances. The #1 and #2 teams received a first-round bye while the #3 through #6 alliances had a single-match play-n to the semi-finals. An elite group of judges interviewed and evaluated teams for five awards and a “Peer Favorite Robot” was selected by the teams themselves. Results of the event are shown below:

SCRRF is a segment of LA Robotics, producer of the event. Team 980 has hosted the Fall Classic since 2008, with John Burroughs Main Gymnasium serving as the venue for the past three years. The competition was played on an official Rebound Rumble playing field by arrangement with FIRST, the Western Region Robotics Forum and LA Robotics.

We’ve restored some content from archive.org, e-mails and other records relevant to Team 980′s history

We are moving ahead, reporting current events while reconstructing our gallery, document, pages etc.