Who Are We?
Individually, we are just high school teens trying to make it through life, but as a whole, we are Team 116. We believe in working together, especially during build season when it's chaos and we're all spearated in our subgroups. All in all we have eleven subgroups for our team members to chose from: Admin, Website, Animation, Controls, Mobitlity, Machinist, Endefector, Finance, Integration, Outreach, and Vex.
Admin- The Administration, which is basically our team captain(s) and lead enginerds. Read more ...
Website- The "Webmaster" would get a couple kids interested in webpage design to create and update the team website. Read more ...
Animation- The Animation team is normally made up of eight people, give or take a few, and participate to get the Autodesk Visualization Award. They have 6 weeks to make an original 3-D animation, 30 seconds long with 900 frames using the 3DsMax software provided by Autodesk. Read more ...
Controls- The Controls team is split further into two more subsections, Hardware and Software. Hardware wires everything together for the robot, they create the controls system, train people to solder, and work together with software to make the Operator Interface (OI). Software programs the robot to repond to whatever is necessary for the robot to move. They work with the program MPLab and learn the language of C. Read more ...
Mobility- The Mobility team creates the drive system for the robot. In addition to that, they also make the frame for the robot. Read more ...
Machinist- The Machinist team helps every other subgroup that deals with the robot. They are in charge of shop maintenance, raw stock inventory, and machining of parts the require precision using the lathe and mill.
End-effector- The End-effector team makes any manipulator or add on to the robot.
Finance- One person, along with the Team Teacher and a mentor, handles the money that the team retains. Read more ...
Integration- A small group of students model the robot in a program called Inventor. Read more ...
Outreach- Any event that isn't competitions is considered outreach. We reach out to the community to get people interested in robotics. The mini robots the Vex team makes is very popular with children and adults alike. Read more ...
Vex- The Vex team competes in the First Vex Competition (FVC). They create smaller sized robots to compete in a completely different game and rules than the larger robot does. Because Vex ends earlier, the members of the Vex team help the rest of the team to get things finished. Read more ...