The Whitney High School Robotics Club is proud of our student's achievments. From the FRC 2002 Rookie All-Star Award and their 2003 Judge's Award, to FLL Directors' Award at LEGOLAND® and FVC's 2007 Connect Award, our teams work hard, play hard, and practice the ideals of FIRST Robotics and gracious professionalism. We are pleased to share photos of the students at work and the accomplishments of our teams and others involved in the wonderful robotics revolution!
The tankbot is a basic design that uses a touch sensor and tank treads
The worm gear might be used to lift a weighted arm
The bevel gear might be used to change the axis of rotation.
The crown gear (bottom left) may also change the axis of rotation.
The pulley drive system is best used in high speed, low torque, light robots
The RCX brick is the programmable brain of your robot. It has 3 input ports (sensors) and 3 output ports (motors).
The First LEGO Summer RoboCampers, some now teach robotics! Click on image to enlarge.
2005 Ocean Odyssey playing field. Check out all the games at www.firstlegoleague.org
Programming on laptops for new robot attachments
LEGO Mindstorms® Robotics® Invention System offers a wonderful opportunity to learn the basics of engineering and the science of robotics. The internet is filled with pages of photos, showing what others have accomplished using the Mindstorms system. Check out www.usfirst.org for information on the FIRST LEGO League. Check out www.firstlegoleague.org for this year's game information and to download a free LEGO comic book. If you want to see a perfectly design robot (scored a perfect 400 points in last year's game), go to www.mindstormsmayhem.org/congratulations-flying-geeks.asp and download the Quicktime movie. For a great tutorial check out the robotics academy at Carnegie Mellon University at www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/ . To experience all this for yourself, come to RoboCamp next summer!
