2009 Season
There were two Los Altos Community Teams for the first time since our
first team in 2002. They built some great robots and both teams
performed well in the Northern California Botball Competition and at
the 2009 Global Conference on Educational Robotics.
July 1-5, 2009 Botball Global Conference on
Educational Robotics (GCER) competition in Leesburg, VA Results
The two teams combined forces to enter the GCER competition. The
A-team provided the seeding robots and Team-1 provided the double
elimination robots. Kyle Montgomery, Toby Macaluso, Jeremy
Macaluso, Kevin Low, Steven Murray, Alex Perry, Brian Silverman, Parker
Schuh, Steven Knipe, Joshua Horowitz, Lucas Tong, Drew McReynolds, and
Brandon Huang
- Second in
Double Elimination
- Judges Choice Award for Best Strategy
- Outstanding
Team Documentation Award for our documentation presentation
- 4th place Overall!
March 28, 2009 Northern California Botball Regional Results
- Team-1 09-0055 with Kyle Montgomery, Toby Macaluso, Jeremy
Macaluso, Alex Perry, Steven Knipe, Drew McReynolds, and Brandon Huang
- Northern CA Competition Results
- 4th place Seeding Round
- 4th place Double Elimination
- 3ed place overall
- A-Team
09-0284 with Parker Schuh, Kevin Low, Steven Murray, Brian Silverman,
Joshua Horowitz, and Lucas Tong.
- Second Place Documentation
Award - Check out their strategy
documentation and on-side presentation.
- Three Judges Choice Awards
- Most Promising (robot design)
- On-Site Presentation Award
- Elastic Energy Award for the shooter
that would grab botguy (it had this really cool grabber that would hold
on so tightly that you could swing botguy around in a circle by the
string)
2008 Season was Awesome!
July 8-11, 2008 International Botball Tournament
The tournament was part of the
2008 Global
Conference on Educational Robotics, hosted by the University of
Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. 58 Teams from around the world brought
their robots to compete in the event. Steven Knipe, Kyle
Montgomery, and Jeremy Macaluso attend the tournament and Travis and
Parker helped by cell phone.
The Los Altos Community Botball team has attended the national
competition six out of the last seven years. This year's
performance
is the best that the team has ever done. Well done team!
- 2nd place Seeding with scores of 13, 125, 240 - Average of
best
two of 182.50
- Highest
Seeding round score of 240 (video)
- 4th place in Double Elimination
- 2nd Place Overall - "In the
world!" as Steven says
it. They came home with a really cool trophy for this
accomplishment.
- Judges Choice Award - Most creative use of the Create Robot
for
the way it collects, sorts, and dumps the tribbles.
2008, April 19, Tenth Annual Northern California Botball
Tournament at
Santa Clara University.
Los Altos Community Botball Team with
Travis Schuh, team captain, 9th graders Kyle Montgomery and Parker
Schuh, 8th graders Kevin Low and Jeremy Macaluso, 7th grader Steven
Murray and 6th graders Steven Knipe, Alex Perry and Brian
Silverman. The team represents eight different schools. Results.
- First place trophy for seeding round - obtained the highest
two scores in this part of the event
- First place trophy for double elimination round, the team
went undefeated and once again had the top two rounds
- Fifth place in documentation
- Judges Choice Trophy for overall robot design and best
overall team
- First place trophy for overall
tournament champion!
2007 Season
Contest
Goal:
Create a movie, animation, or sequence of images that
explain your Botball or Beyond Botball robot system: how the robots
work, what they will do during seeding, and how your robots will handle
themselves when faced with opponents in the head to head. Your entry
should primarily be informative about your system, accurate in modeling
and strategy, and, where possible, artistic and entertaining. This is a
CAD (Computer Aided Design) contest, so your CAD work should be front
and center.
