overview

team xbot is a robotics competition team with the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST). Students are recruited from Franklin High School and the surrounding Seattle South End high schools. Students work together with professional engineers to design, build, and program a 120 pound 5 feet competition robot in six short weeks.

Click here to watch our 2008 animation entry.
Click here to See the 2008 Animation Storyboard

The team is working hard preparing for the championships to compete in the FIRST Overdrive! We will also be competing with other regional winners of the Chairman's Award for the national title.

FIRST Overdrive asks students to design a robot to complete the game's task, in which we can receive these points:
•4pts for each time a robot crosses a finish line and/or lane marker during hybrid period.
•2pts for each time a robot crosses it's own finish line during teleoperated period.
•8pts for each of the alliance's trackball completely removed from the initial target location during hybrid mode.
•2pts each time a trackball crosses it's own finish line.
•8pts for hurdling a trackball over it's own finish line. (2pts for the robot crossing the finish line with a 6pt bonus)
•12pt for each trackball securely positioned on the overpass at the end of the match.

Click here to check out the game animation.
Click here for more information about FIRST.

headliners

03.19.2008 At the FIRST Microsoft Seattle Regional competition in Tacoma, OCHO earned the eighth seed position, and was picked to be in the 2nd seed alliance coming in as semifinalist. However, we didn't go home empty handed. The team won the highest and most prestigious award, The Chairman's Award honoring the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the purpose and goals of FIRST. Team xbot was also awarded the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award, in recognition of the entrepreneurial spirit of a team that, since inception, has developed the framework for a comprehensive business plan to scope, manage, and achieve team objectives.
03.03.2008 Team xbot comes home from a long weekend competing at the Oregon Regional (2/28-3/1). We are proud to have placed 2nd out of 55 teams and Semi Finalist along side our alliance partners Team 100 from Woodside, CA and Rookie All-Stars Team 2550 from Oregon City, OR. Ocho will be heading to Tacoma for the Microsoft Seattle Regional for more action!
02.19.2008 FedEx has come to pick up X8: Ocho. Now all we have to do is wait until we head down to Portland.
02.15.2008 Animation team finishes up just in time! Check out the storyboard and animation.

Mark your calendars for upcomming events!
Microsoft/Seattle Regional 3/22-3/24, 2008
Championship, Atlanta, GA 4/17 - 4/19, 2008
Senior Graduation 6/12 @ Memorial Stadium @ 8pm!

Articles from last season:
April 2007 From Seattle to Atlanta.View Press Release.
March 2007 Taking home Engineering Inspiration Award. View Press Release.