Hope Chapel Academy has been involved with FIRST Robotics for 7 years!
Here's a look at what's happened.
1997
Our first year! We were one of 5 schools that made up the first
Southern California robotic team. Called the Circuit Breakers students from Hope
Chapel Academy, Redondo Union High school, Hawthorne High school, Mira
Costa High School, and Torrance High School worked together to build a
robot. The game we played was titled "Torrid Terror." Inner tubes were
placed on an apparates resembling a large coat hanger.
1998
All 5 schools seperated into seperate teams and we became "Beach Bot."
"Ladder Logic" was the name of the game. In the middle of the field was
a hexagonal cylinder with 3 ramps off its sides. Balls were to be
placed on those ramps.
1999
Beach Bot played in "Double Trouble." This was the first year that
alliances were used. The point was to place floppies on a puck which
was in the middle of the field.
2000
In 2000, the game was called "Co-Operation FIRST." Four robots worked
together to place balls on a goal and 1 robot could pull the goals and
itself onto a teeter-totter.
2001
"Diabolical Dynamics." This game consisted of 2 V-shaped baskets in
which balls were placed and a bar inbetween them that robots could hang
off of.
2002
In "Zone Zeal" balls were to be placed in movable goals that were
placed into scoring zones.
2003
"Stack Attack" was played by human players stacking 4 boxes each in the
beginning of the game. Then robots would plow into a stack of boxes on
top of a ramp and try to push them into scoring zones and stack them.
In the end the robots would get onto the ramp and try to block other
robots from joining them.
