The Palo Alto High School Robotics Team is a student-run organization that encourages creativity and innovation among its members and in the larger community. Our main event is the FIRST Robotics Competition, which invites high school students from across the globe to build and compete with robots, while fostering engineering and gracious professionalism.
FRC 2008: The Championship Experience
by Jane Volk-Brew
The Palo Alto High School Robotics Team, The Vikings, also known as “Team 8”, which had participated in three regionals during the February-March competition season (Portland, Silicon Valley, and Las Vegas) traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for the FIRST Robotics Challenge championship last weekend. 18 team members were able to go.
What now?
LaserFinger
25% (1 vote)
Fundraising!
0% (0 votes)
FIRST R&D
25% (1 vote)
Other
50% (2 votes)
Total votes: 4
Should we go to Atlanta this year?
Yes, Championship event would be awesome!
94% (16 votes)
No, we've missed enough school already.
6% (1 vote)
Total votes: 17
Las Vegas Sun: Teen masters gather for a robot rodeo
Hi, Robots: Everyone knows that robots are plotting behind our backs to overthrow humanity. For decades we’ve been warned, in comic books and anime and sci-fi books and movies.
As you read this, the teenage power-nerds of America are busily designing our future android overlords — and winning prizes and scholarships for it.
Rides to SFO
WE ARE GOOD ON RIDES! We depart from the Paly Robotics lab to SFO on Wednesday. We will gather at Paly at 2pm and depart before 2:30...
Karpen 4
Rossen 6
Vicenti 4
Shaffer 4
Brew 2
Ornaf 4
Wang 3
Tramiel 3
Stanton 2
Rides back - also taken care of!
(early) McClintock 4
(early) still need one...
Vicenti 4
Shaffer 4
Ornaf 4
Horvath 3
Rossen 7
Tramiel 5
Wallace 6
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Rides to San Jose
We need rides for 30(!) people to San Jose Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings and evenings.
Thursday Morning: 19
Brew (4), Bertain (4+tools), Rossen (6), Tacklind (5)
Thursday Afternoon: 19
Brew (4), Bertain (4), Rossen (6), Tacklind (5)
Friday Morning: 20
Bertain (8), Vicenti (4), Herrmann (3), Tacklind (5)
Friday Afternoon: 22
Bertain (8), Rossen (6), Herrmann (3), Tacklind (5)
Saturday Morning: 29
Bertain (8), Vicenti (4), Tassone (4), Rossen (5), Herrmann (3), Tacklind (5)
Saturday Evening: 17
Bertain (4+tools), Rossen (5), Herrmann (3), Tacklind (5)
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Portland, Day One
We arrived yesterday at the airport. Transportation was a breeze, and the hotel was very nice. (A sidenote, Lars and Jonna Rossen managed to beat us on the 700-mile journey -- driving.)
Today we got in at about 7:30 for uncrating. The robot's crate was damaged during shipping (Doug speculated that it might have been dropped off of a truck) but the robot was 100% working. We spend most of the morning installing our upgrade parts (new arms, mostly) and we are now tuning the code before we head out for our first practice match of the day.
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