1418
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Team 1418 is a team from Falls Church, VA. For reals, yo.
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| Rookie Year: | 2004 |
| Inactive Years: | {{{inactive}}} |
| Location: | Falls Church, VA |
| School: | George Mason High School |
| Approx. size: | 10 |
| Team Website: | http://www.team1418.org/ |
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Current Team Projects
- Arcade Cabinet - As of December 2006, the Arcade machine is up and running. It plays two games: Fair Use Man, and Thy Shiney Quest. It is set up in the theater lobby, and costs a quarter to play. Last seen in lobby, summer of 2007. Location currently unknown.
History
Started in 2004 at George Mason High School. Though started as a small team, with roughly 10 core members, many of whom did a lot of programming, they grew quite a bit in the 2006 season. They now have approximately 25 members, who would "rather be audacious and risk failure then mediocre and risk boredom." Historically, this has meant coming face to face with failure quite frequently, never finishing in the top half after seeding matches. Team 1418 attended the NASA/VCU regional in 2004 and 2005, but attended the Chesapeke regional in 2006. Team 1418 will likely continue to attend the Chesapeke regional. In 2005, they attended Capitol Clash at the NBC4 Digital Edge Expo in Washington D.C. As of now, there are no rising seniors for the 2008 competition, so the upcoming robots will be bunk(Note: the 'Bunk-Bot' is the highest ranking robot 1418 has ever built. Just FYI).
- Starting in 2005, team 1418 has brought their robot to both the 3K fun run and the memorial day parade on Memorial Day in the City of Falls Church, VA.
Robots
- 2008 - Stingray - Won the Chesapeake regional. Named for famed non-member Steve Earl Walsh. Currently resting on laurels, carousing with ale and wenches.
- 2007 - Manus Tazeronus - Ranked eighth at Chesapeake, finished third. Won the Delphi Driving Tommorrow Design Award.
- 2006 - Elephantus (Scrapped for parts)
- 2005 - Manus Imperatorus (mechanically complete, but electronics were yanked in Feb '06, up and running again by January 2006)
- 2004 - The Grue (dismantled summer '04)
Accomplishments
- Learning first hand about saftey (see When Robots Attack)
Sponsors
- Aurora Flight Sciences
- Digital Design and Imaging Service (Also noted for purchasing firstwiki.org)
Members List
Students
- Will Walton (team captain)
- Taylor Demeter (safty captain)
- Ben 'The Ben Says' Petersen (lead driver)
- Will Chen (lead programmer)
- Simon Farrow (2nd robo-coach)
- Zach Emmons (secondary driver)
- Andrew Emmons
- Mathew Finein
- Andrew Finein (website designer)
- David Sheffler (secondary photographer)
- Matt Rollo
- Mary Ma
- Johanna Ballou
- Kal Stankov
- Will Cunningham
- Nick Shukla
- Marc Forbes
- Boon Sakrayonpong
- Visiting 7th grader Matthew Butkiewicz
We'll see about everyone else...AFTER THEY WIN THE REGIONAL, THAT IS!!!
Alumni
- Greg Douglas
- Kevin Zhou
- Keith Rothman
- John Tyson
- Dan Sheffler(Shop Manager, Programmer, Mystic Battle Mage etc.)
- Dustin Rottner. He has a kick-awesome car, and doesn't play videogames.
- Nathan Ballou. Wanted a catapult.
- Alex Nette
- Gavin Argo
- Alex Douglas
- Gareth Highnam
- Bjorn Westergard (Phrontist) (programmer, electronics, webmaster)
- George Breeden
- Rachel Taylor
- Fritz Langford
- Kelly Casteel
- Eliot Walker
- John Ehrenzeller
- Alex Petersen
- David Maher
- Sebastian Forster
- Erik Zackrison
- Alexander Pierson
Mentors
- Mr. Ballou
- Mr. Applegate
- Mr. Taylor
- Mr. Lotts
- Mr. Castelli
- Mrs. Moore
- That new mentor, I can never remember his name. Sorry, guy.
http://www.kl3ptocracy.net/1418/main/1418_v2.html http://www.team1418.org/ (most recent website. currently opperational)
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