September/October BunnyBot Schedule

Sept 11^th  Metro Area FIRST Force Meeting

Coaches get together at Catlin Gabel School to discuss the upcoming season and get a sneak peek at BunnyBot ‘10

Sept 25th New Team Workshop

Teams, and mentors new to FRC, are invited to a 3 hour overview on forming, organizing and running FRC teams.

Oct 30^th FIRSTFare

The huge technical conference covering all things FRC.  400 people came last year with 18 different sessions.

Dec 18^th BunnyBot ‘10
A pre-season FRC-like competition.  This is a game with FRC-style rules and FRC style robots but different from any previous FRC game.  It’s goal is to get teams up to speed on the skills they’ll need for the coming build season. Last year’s game can be seen at http://www.oregonfirst.org/regional-event/bunnybot-scrimmage/  Rules for 2010 will be released Sept 11^th. 

All events are held at Catlin Gabel School.

  Stormbots Strike!

March was the final countdown! The robotics build season amounted up to one peaking moment, the Autodesk Oregon Regional FIRST competition at the Memorial Coliseum. 30 hours of competition over three days were jam packed with spirited teams sporting their colors, mascots dancing to the Macarena, and robots in action battling it out on the field. A total of 104 fierce rounds were played, each consisting of 3 teams on a red alliance and 3 on a blue alliance. Each team had a robot playing a goalie, midfield, and forward positions. Teams also had a chance to score extra points by raising their robot completely off the ground before time ran out. Intense showdowns were fought out on the field, and rivalries as electric as Optimus Prime and Megatron’s ensured that there would never be a dull moment. Sparks flew and a couple of robots even went up in smoke but the Stormbots, with a lightning fast robot and dynamic design ended the qualification rounds in 8^th out of 61 teams, automatically moving in to the quarter finals! The Stormbots design even won the General Motors Industrial Design award due to its interesting use of a vacuum system and pneumatics. Even though we didn’t bring home the gold this time, the Storm definitely blew away the competition!

Check Us Out!

The Skyview StormBots were featured in the Feb. 18th issue of the Columbian!
www.columbian.com/videos/2010/feb/18/34/

The Skyview StormBots are a FIRST* Robotics Competition Team (#2811) whose home base is Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington. We are an organization that joins students, teachers, parents, and businesses together for a common purpose: to promote challenging, collaborative, innovative, and inspiring technological activities for the students in the Vancouver School District and community. 2009 was our rookie year and we finished 17th out of 54 teams after having placed in the top 5 teams on the first two days of the competition. We are very proud of our accomplishments as a rookie team.  And we can do more this year with your help.

In search of... Mentors: We have a five foot tall, 120 pound robot in search of adult mentors to help us do a "make over" and tell our story to other students and the community. The team is looking for adult mentors to help with: mechanical design and fabrication marketing and public relations finance and accounting Sponsors: We are also in need of sponsors to help us reach our potential. To learn how you can help, please contact us at info@stormbots.com

* FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." Visit www.usfirst.org for more details about this international program that promotes math and science education through competitive events in the spirit of "gracious professionalism".