1912
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| Team Combustion | |
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| Rookie Year: | 2006 |
| Inactive Years: | {{{inactive}}} |
| Location: | Slidell, LA USA |
| School: | Northshore High School |
| Approx. size: | 32 Students and 16 Mentors |
| Team Website: | http://www.northshorerobotics.com/ |
1912 is the FIRST Robotics team for Northshore High School in Slidell, Louisiana.
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History
Team Combustion has quite a bit of history for being so young. Each year has been memorable with it unique robots, people, and outcome.
2006
During the 2006 season, as the Northshore Krewe, we experienced all the obstacles of a rookie team from a short planning period in the off season immediately after Hurricane Katrina to a lack of financial support and time management. However, our team was able to overcome all of these challenges and build a working product. Despite our insufficient knowledge of the competition, we attended the Lone Star Regional in Houston, Texas, and our team came together amidst adversity and presented a successful robot, Rex. Although it did not perform extremely well in competition, our fans continued cheering, and our pit remained bustling. After all our diligence, we were ultimately rewarded with the Gracious Professionalism Award.
2007
During the 2007 season, as Nuts and Volts, we took a completely different approach to the way we ran our club. Since a majority of our previous membership was composed of seniors, we had only a few returning students and mentors to carry on. First, a group of the veteran members advertised the club throughout the school. While some students hung up flyers, others personally visited classes and encouraged them to join our team. After the club acquired about fifty students and fifteen mentors, we began our search for funding. We developed a multimedia presentation highlighting FIRST's motives and our club's accomplishments and presented it to several corporations including Shell, Woodside, Lockheed Martin, and Planning Systems Inc. The corporations were utterly astounded and accepted our request for financial support. We also designed a brochure to distribute among political leaders and local schools to gain their support and invite them to the Bayou Regional Competition.
Nuts and Volts participated in the Bayou Regional, and achieved the highest seed score with their robot, the Nutcracker. In the finals, Nuts and Volts was the leader of Alliance 1. Their partners were the Rambunctious Rams and the Techno Titans. The Rams (Team 462) were an exceptional ramp deployer, and the Techno Titans, 1683, was a defensive robot. In the finals, Alliance 1 did not lose a single match. In the end, the alliance won. They became regional champions and went to Nationals in Atlanta. Nuts and Volts participated in seven matches, losing only 2. Sadly, Nuts and Volts would have been in the Archimedes finals if they won their last match. This is because before their second loss, they were ranked 7th, but slipped to 14th with that loss. They were the first backup in those finals, but they didn't compete since no robots were badly damaged. They did get many lessons from Nationals, and will mature quickly.
2008
We became Team Combustion, embellished with hues of electric blue and gold. Our community outreach expanded, with us mentoring a FIRST Lego League team, the Bonne Ecole Robostars, and hosting BLAST's Jumpstart Build. Although our robot Pyro did not perform as well as our Bayou-Regional-winning Nutcracker, we did have the prestigious Judge's Award bestowed upon us in addition to learning valuable lessons for the future.
2009
Our team mantra for this year is "back to basics." This is reflected in our diligent work and organized team structure; we also returned to the workplace of our very first year. Even our robot, Blue Steel, evokes the theme, its simple elegance mirroring that of the 1969 lunar launch. During competition Blue Steel did not preform as well as we had expected, however, we enjoyed ourselves. Although we did not participate in the finals most members of the team and cheered for fellow teams. This and other factors helped us win the Gracious Professionalism Award. One of our mentors, Dr. Dale Bibee was honored with the Woodie Flowers Award.
Robots
- 2006 - Rex
- 2007 - Nutcracker
- 2008 - Pyro
- 2009 - Blue Steel
- 2010 - Stryker
- Demo - T-Rex of Doom
Awards
These are the awards that 1912 has won:
- 2006 Lone Star Regional Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism Award
- 2007 Bayou Regional Rockwell Automation Innovations in Control Award
- 2007 Bayou Regional Champion
- 2008 Bayou Regional Judges Award
- 2008 Bayou Regional Website Excellence Award
- 2009 Bayou Regional Johnson & Johnson Gracious Professionalism Award
- 2009 Bayou Regional Woodie Flowers Award-- Dr. Dale Bibee
- 2010 Bayou Regional Delphi Engineering Excellence Award
- 2010 Bayou Regional Autodesk Excellence in Design Award
- 2010 Bayou Regional Coopertition Award
- 2010 Bayou Regional FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award-- Andy Zhou and Christopher Collins
- 2010 Bayou Regional Chairman's Award
- 2010 Lone Star Regional Motorola Quality Award
Organization
Team Combustion is highly organized, with a number of teams presiding over different aspects of the robot and team. There are three design teams which design and build the robot. They are the Chassis Team, making the chassis and propulsion system for the robot; the Challenge Team, which designs the upper apparatus that plays the game; the Controls Team, which presides over the electronic systems and controls of the robot. Besides these three Design teams there are other teams which deal with nontechnical aspects of the team. These teams are:
- CAD Team
- Awards and Scholarships Team
- Communications and Public Relations Team
- Financial Team
- Planning Team
- Safety Team
- Spirit Team
- Strategy and Game Rules Team
- Integration Team
- Officers Team
Sponsors
- NASA
- PSI
- Lockheed Martin
- Textron/ Marine and Land
- Northrop Grumman
- Jacobs
- SAIC
- ERC
- LEAP
- Sierra Lobo
- Qualis
- Northshore High School
- Naval Reach Laboratory
- Signs Now
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