Upcomming Events

It's been a couple months, school is out, and most of us are finally unwound from build season. Most of us. Thankfully, though, we have enough rational and sane members of our team left to appear at some events during the summer!

First of all, we will be appearing at the AG Centennial Block Party on July 10th. We'll be there from 4-6pm, and you'll be able to find us infront of Lemos Feed and Pet Supply in the Arroyo Grande Village. We will have this year's robot, Murphy on show, but due to spacing issues, we will be actually running last year's robot, Phoenix.

The second event we will be appearing at will be the "AG Valley Car Sho" (Yes, that's how they spell it), which will be on July 30th.

UC Davis Competition

Travel: Eagle Robotics is at it again! And this time, we are off to UC Davis near Sacramento compete in our second regional!

Practice Matches: Our robot was shipped via Jim to this regional as a result of our unique back-to-back competitions, and our pit crew jumped right on it making much needed modifications and improvements to the robot's programming and machinery.

Qualification Matches: Our drivers and robot continue to improve, as a matter of fact, our robot was one of the only scoring robots available near the beginning of the day and our alliances benefited as a result. Autonomous code was created and fine-tuned which allowed consistent placing of the Ubertube at the beginning of the match which made us well equipped for Finals the next day.

Elimination Matches: Our robot went got off on a strong start, and won all of the 10 seeding matches. Moving on to eliminations, we paired up with Space Cookies and The Wild Hats. Our victory streak ground to a halt on our second semifinal match and marked the end of our competition season.

Awards: On a happy note, we came home with the Xerox Creativity Award given to us for our innovative minibot with magnet embedded wheels.

Christopher Site Admin

Exploration Station Event Aftermath

As mentioned in previous posts, Eagle Robotics was at the Exploration Station in Grover Beach today (December 11th), demonstrating the capabilities of the 2010 robot, Phoenix. Also being displayed were Lego NXT robots, and sample Lab-View (The software used to program Phoenix) programs that generated noises that were annoying very, very, annoying for anybody standing nearby.

We'd like to say thanks to everyone who came out and especially to the Exploration Station for having us. We all had fun, and we hope everyone else who showed up did too.

Exploration Station Event

AGHS Eagle robotics is proud to be part of The Grover Beach Exploration Station's Expand the Experience. From 12:00-2:00 on December 11th. The team will be at the Exploration Station with last year's robot, Phoenix, along with some Lego Mindstorms robots, and simple computer programs. Robotics team members will talk about the work (Programming, Desigining, Fabrication, and Marketing) that goes into creating a robot for competition.

This hands-on event will be aimed at younger children (Under age 10), but anybody is welcome to come. For even more information, look at the description on the Exploration Station's website.

Daniel Marketing Lackey

Pumpkin Chunkin' and Exploration Station

Saturday, November 13th was a day of flying gourds. At ten am sharp, a team of Pumpkineers from Orcutt High School brought their trebuchet to the back of Arroyo Grande High School for the annual Pumpkin Chunkin' competition. They were the standing champions from last year's competition, so it was a shock to everyone when on the second throw, their magnificent trebuchet snapped, making it virtually useless. Before long, though, members from our own Robotics team has whipped up a--smaller--pumpkin launcher made from surgical tubing and duct tape. Their seat-of-the-pants creation went on to beat the previous team's trebuchet. Also at the event was a KSBY News camera as well as a private film producer from Fat Chick Productions (her videos may be found on YouTube).

In other news, AGHS Robotics is going to be scheduled for a visit to the Grover Beach Exploration Station in about three weeks. This is geared to under-10's, so we hope to see some shining faces when the time comes.

Anna Marketing

InfoMeeting

Today, after school, Eagle Robotics hosted an informational meeting for new, incoming team members. Each veteran team member gave a statement about their experience on the team. We saw what appeared to be a well-balanced group of members. Team members are required to bring their parents/gaudians along with them to the Monday meeting at 7:00PM on October 4. We encourage people who were not present at the Wendsday meeting to come to the required meeting on Monday.

Christopher Site Admin

Arroyo Grande Car Show

Hello all you car lovers! (you can be a robot lover also) Eagle Robotics will be present at the AG Car Show hosted by the AG Car Club on Saturday, July Thirty First (31) as we have for the past several years. Although it is a CAR show, our robot Phoenix and two VEX robots (you know, those cute little ones you saw at the fireworks stand) will be at our booth. Our team members will help throught the day by keeping trash picked up and other volunteering activities. Be sure to stop by and visit our team and robot at the Car Show!

Christopher Site Admin

Fireworks Booth

Independance Day is only 4 days away! (It is on July 4 if anyone forgot) and starting on July first, The Robotics Team is following suit with their FIREWORKS STAND! The Arroyo Grande High School Eagle Robotics Team is hosting a Fireworks Stand in the Village of Arroyo Grande at the "old" JJ's Market parking lot from Thursday, July 1st through Sunday, July 4th, during the hours of 9am to 9pm. Not only that, but our robot Phoenix is making an appearance there as well on Thusday and Friday (July 1-2 respectivly). Stop by the booth during Farmer's Market on Saturday 12pm to 2:30pm to save money on the precious petroleum distillate called gasoline that we so rely on. On Sunday, there is a 4th of July celebration at thr Village Green Park starting at 1pm. Take advantage of this chance to meet the Robotics Team AND celebrate the Declaration of our Independance SIMULTANEOUSLY!

Christopher Site Admin

Exploration Station in Grover Beach

Today we were invited to display our robot off at the Exploration Station in Grover Beach. For those of you who don't know, it's a small children's musuem where kids can come to have fun and learn about various things including technology. Phoenix was the star of the show, and the children were also able to drive small Vex robots that we brought to the event. They could also try to act like a robot using popsticle sticks - being a robot is hard! KCOY even showed up and recorded Phoenix as well as an interview with Danny. You can check the video out here:

The video is no longer availible

Mike Original Site Admin

Yearend BBQ & Potluck

First, an apology. The site hasn't been updated in 74 days. Thats almost 1776 hours! A.K.A., a really long time. Formalities aside, the Robotics Team has wrapped the 2010 season up with the Yearend BBQ & Potluck. A time to socialize, catch up and relax. The robot was also present at the potluck. Awards have been given out to the mentors and the team. There was plenty of food for everyone attending, and possibly a bit more. We also were updated on upcoming events such as the Exploration Station (May 8) and the Fireworks Booth. Not only that, but we'll be at the local Strawberry Festival. What we HAVE done is assisted in the Oceano Airport's Airport Day. Helping children with paper airplanes and other flighty things. In other words, the Eagle Robotics Team will maintain an active presence in the community.

Christopher Site Admin

SAN DIEGO REGIONAL!

Hello everyone, and welcome to our new and improved, (if thats even possible) webpage which we hope to keep updated and functional through the year. Unfoutunatly, our old website dissapeared under mysterious circumstances, never to be seen again. But enough with that. Our team recently came back from our first regional of the year with the Xerox creativity award which we have won consecutivly for the past 4 years. You can view our results HERE. We made it to the semifinals until the Red Aliance delivered the coup de grace, beating our team by only one point. However, there is still the regional in Long Beach to look foward to and as our team gains confidence in their abilities, then I'm sure that our robot PHOENIX will rise from the ashes and continue to soar with the Eagles!

Christopher Site Admin