2009-10 Season

Though we started with a meager five people, we’ve since grown into a vibrant club with over 40 members.  Right after the 2009 season our team underwent momentous changes, including reorganization of the leadership team, as well as changes in how the PR and programming team was run.  For the off-season project the team decided to build a simple second robot for the programming team to work on, as well as modify the “Om-bot” to make it presentable.  We also started a Support-Group mostly run by parents in order to help with the organization of carpooling as well as food and chaperoning.  In the beginning of the year, the VEX team won at the VEX Jumpstart Competition and qualified to go to the Worlds competition in Dallas, Texas.

During build season, the team decided to try a new process for designing the robot, in which the team was split into four sub-teams and each team came up with different ideas for a robot.  Through this process the team was able to come up with many diverse robot designs.  Once the team decided on a design, drawing and CAD drawings were made.  The team split into the previously determined subteams and started working in parallel on the robot.  The final robot uses mecanum wheels, has a powerful kicker, and an arm to lift the robot onto a pullup bar.

2008-09 Season

The 2008-2009 season started with the construction of our off-season project: a robot with four omni-wheels.  This was an experimental design with a completely new drive train for our club. 2008 was also the inaugural year for the VEX Robotics team, which competed in the Elevation challenge. The hands-on learning “classes” set up before build season attracted a whole new wave of dedicated members, eager to learn from the veterans.  While the build team practiced building, the public relations team hosted multiple events.  Interlake High School was the site of the preseason workshop in November, which was attended by about 1000 students from local teams.  The kickoff in January, once again hosted in our school, was a tremendous success. Saints Robotics participated in the FIRST Robotics Lunacy Competition with their robot, nicknamed “Om-bot”, and attended the Microsoft Seattle Regional in Key Arena on March 26-28.

2007-08 Season

Our team at the 2008 Microsoft Seattle Regional

The 2007-2008 season of Saints Robotics was a long adventure. The year started off with a flurry of pre-season planning and activity. Team membership boomed to 43, the website was redesigned, and the team has acquired the support of the Bezos Family Foundation again as well as two new partners: Magellan Architects and Case Engineering. The design division planned an updated drive system even before the kickoff event. Saints Robotics participated in the brand-new Microsoft Seattle Regional in Tacoma with the robot codenamed “Boten Anna” and was able to compete in the finals and bring back home the Second Place Alliance trophy! A huge thanks to all our sponsors, Bezos Family Foundation, Magellan Architects and CASE Engineering without whom we would not have been able to succeed.

2006-07 Season

Our team during the 2007 Portland Regionals with the robot

The 2006-2007 year was led by an entirely new leadership that had little to no previous experience on the competition. Despite the rocky start, the robot “Ultimate Novice” was created. Team 1899 was able to enter the Pacific Northwest Regional again due to a grant from the Bezos Family Foundation. Even though the robot was mostly built of parts from the kit, team 1899 finished in 27th place in the Portland Regional.

2005-06 Season

Saints Robotics was started in 2005 by David Ayele. Able to attend the Pacific Northwest Regional in Portland, Oregon due to the NASA grant for rookie teams, the team built “Nubcake”, a robot meant to play the 2005-2006 game “Aim High.” While Saints Robotics lacked experience for much of the short six-week-long build season, Ayele and his four teammates attended the competition, placing 35th for their first try. “Nubcake” suffered from a loose drive chain, but little else. The robot has since been decommissioned.