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. 2007 was the first year for VEX competitions in California. Congratulations to WHS Robotics Team 3395, winning the Connect Award in both Los Angeles and San Diego! 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!
Checking out the modified ball dumper robot on a simulated playing field. Click on image to see a large photo.
Bernard works with Jason on the VEX programming while Chris updates the engineering notebook.
2007 Los Angeles Regional FVC competition. Click on image to enlarge.
VEX Team 3395 discussing how to shave 1/16 inch off robot height to fit into the box.
Team 3395 talk with judges at the 2007 Los Angeles Regional FVC competition.
OK, the doo dad on this thing-a-ma-jig is off the whatchamacallit.
Testing the Whatbot with a tethered transmitter.
Vignesh wonders, "Should I tell them I forgot the batteries?".
Back at school, CJ and Bernard tighten nuts and bolts.
The VEX Robotics® Design System was created to unlock the power of a child's imagination. It began with FIRST Robotics [ www.usfirst.org ] and Innovation First [ www.innovationfirst.com ] as the Edubot. With another company using the name, Robovation was born in 2004. Soon Radio Shack joined in and the VEX Robotics® Design System was widely available and the FIRST VEX Challenge (FVC) was introduced on the east coast. December, 2006, brought the first FVC competitions to California. On October 31, 2006, Revell and Innovation First, Inc., announced a global partnership to design the next generation of VEX. For information on FVC, check out www.usfirst.org/community/fvc/ for this year's game information. 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!
