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  • Dunking in St. Louis
    F-cubed, our basketball dunking robot, eight team members, Coach Davis and five mentors made the trip to the FIRST Robotics World Championships held April 25-28 in St. Louis, MO. Culver City High School FIRST Robotics Team 702 competed in the Curie Division and finished 12th in a field of 100 robots from around the world. Playing a game based on basketball called "Rebound Rumble", the Bagel Bytes co-drivers, Anneliese Meyer and Brian Beallo, worked together like a well-oiled machine seeming to read each other's mind. Anneliese effectively controlled the basketball dunking mechanism dropping the ball into the hoop again and again. Brian ran the drive train and took gentle teasing from the team that he made the robot pirouette. Yet, because of his fast handling, the robot simply danced around any defense the opposing teams could throw at it. Team members Taj Carter and Brian were in charge of carefully lining up the robot on the playing field readying it for each match. Precision placement was required as the match begins with an autonomous mode - a 30 second period where the robot runs off of a set of pre-programmed commands. Kudos to team programmers Bianca Huang and Geronimo Lopez for their superb programming code and successful autonomous mode.
  • Bagel Bytes attended the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles Regionals March 15 - 17. We won the judges Creative Award for the simple yet effective design of our scoring mechanism. At the end of the qualifying matches, our team ranked 2nd and finished the competition 3rd place out of a field of 66 teams. Here is a movie of one of the qualifying matches:
    LA Competition Video
  • Team 702 attended the FIRST Robotics San Diego Regionals March 2-4. Our robot won the team's first award from the Judges - the Innovation in Control Award for the unique design of the shooting mechanism, omnidirectional drive, and effective use of sensors. Our team finished 4th place overall in a field of 56 robots. Watch the robot in action!
    San Diego Competition Video
 
 

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  • May 3, 2012

    Bagel Bytes is in the News!
    Thanks to team dad Craig Singer for getting us into Culver City Crossroads, they ran two articles! Look for the May 1 and April 27 articles. Thanks to team dad Nick Reynoza the team was also featured in the Culver City News, look for the May 3 edition, page 9. Great story about the team's trip to Championships.
  • Fundraising Drive Reaches Successful Conclusion.
    Thanks to so many who donated, purchased baked goods and asked their friends. Our recent fundraising drive met it's goal. Leading the way was the Huang family, JPL, Google, Culver City Rotary and Culver City Education Foundation. The team so appreciates everyone's hard work and generosity.