2006 Season

2006 Team

Team 696 pictured with GLAGH (2005)

Team members from left to right:
Back row: Will (rookie year 2006: mechanisms), Nick (rookie year 2005: mechanisms), Karo (rookie year 2005: mechanisms), Areg (rookie year 2004: CAD), Harout (rookie year 2005: mechanisms), Josh (rookie year 2005: electrical), John (rookie year 2005: systems), Mr. DeVore (faculty adviser), Scott (rookie year 2005: machining/drive train), Alec (rookie year 2005: electrical/programming)
Front row: Dalar (rookie year 2006: mechanisms), Evan (rookie year 2006: electrical), Angie (rookie year 2006: programming), Nikiya (rookie year 2006: mechanisms), Kevin (rookie year 2004: drive train/systems), Antonella (rookie year 2006: drive train), Emily (rookie year 2006), Gevorg (rookie year 2005: mechanisms)

Officers

President - Kevin
Treasurer - Nick
Secretary - Angie
Safety Officer - Glory

Build Season

Articles about our 2006 season from local papers.

Subsystems

Systems - Areg, Kevin, John
Mechanical: Shooter - Harout, Gevorg, Karo, Nick
Mechanical: Pickup - Will
Mechanical: Basket/Storage - Josh, Nikiya, Dalar
Drive Train/Chassis - Kevin, Scott, Antonella
Programming/Electrical - Raffi, Alec, Angie, Evan, Josh

Check out some build season photos.

Testing the shooter in the 2006 build season

Competitions

Drive Team

Coach - John
Driver - Harout, Glory
Operator - Karo, Gevorg
Human Player - Josh

Phoenix Regional

At the Phoenix Regional, we still had many issues to sort out with our mechanisms. The members of the team spent a lot of time between matches trying to fine-tune the ball feeder mechanism. Due to our design, we also had a dangerously high center of gravity, which caused us to tip many times, both on the flat surface of the field and while attempting to climb the ramp. By the end of the regional, we had most of our mechanical and programming problems sorted out. It was on to Los Angeles to "Aim Higher"!

"And there's Team 696, learning about center of gravity!"

Los Angeles Regional

Our Los Angeles experience went much better than it had gone in Phoenix. Thanks to our new bumpers, our center of gravity was lowered sufficiently, allowing us to climb the ramp. They also served as a "wheelie-bar", which automatically kept us from tipping over. The robot functioned quite well as a whole, and was able to score autonomously in the high goal quite reliably. With all our problems sorted out, we were able to show what Robot Man Jan could do. Though we were not picked for the elimination rounds, we won the Radio Shack "Innovation in Control" award, for the integration of our shooter mechanism with our programming, which allowed us to score so well autonomously.

Robot Man Jan performing up to potential at the Los Angeles Regional