The StormBots are continuing our goal of making a difference within the community tomorrow night from 5:00-6:30 by heading to Salmon Creek Elementary’s “S.T.E.A.M. Night.” This event is part of the elementary schools efforts to broaden young minds through the fields of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics, and the StormBots are going to…
The StormBots are looking for talented new members for the upcoming 2019-2020 build season, and with that, we bring you the dates of our annual Information Session. To all students wishing to join, do you have the talent we are looking for? We are looking for people of all walks of life who are interested…
What an amazing last few months we’ve had as a team! Finishing off the 2018-2019 season with the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Houston, Texas was an absolute blast! In our team’s second time in Texas, we were placed in the Carver division of the championships and participated not only with local teams from the…
In another example of our team’s dedication to pursuing the highest in academic standards and achievement, several of the Stormbots have been selected for the prestigious 2019 “Regional Aspirations in Computing Honors” award presented by the nonprofit National Center for Women and Information Technology. The award is given out to female students who show exceptional…
Lake Oswego was this team’s most successful regional event of the season! We started off strong with a great ranking in the practice matches, and we ended up placing in sixth place after the qualification matches but ended up as the fifth ranked seed overall. Our alliance consisted of two more very strong competitors from…
That’s right everybody, our team is invited to the FRC World Championship in Houston, Texas! We were invited by First to attend based on our previous performances. We will be attending the event April 16th through April 20th at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Our team is hard at work in preparation for this…
Our Yakima journey started in Qualification Match 5. Our alliance scored nearly twice as much as any of the other opposing alliances and it showed that Yakima was going to be great. In our next match however, our alliance member accidentally knocked our robot off the pedestal as it was climbing, which caused some minor…
Hello everyone, I’m going to give a quick recap of Saturday’s events for our team at Wilsonville. Please note that, while this was my first ever competition, I was volunteering as field reset, so I was watching the action right up close. In our first match, our alliance consisted of team 7032 Raptors, team 6831…
StormBot programmer and senior Annika E. (on right) and Skyview senior Ojasvi K. receive the 2019 Congressional App Challenge from Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler for developing an app to help children care for their pets. Read the full article on The Columbian website.
Ozzie K is a sophomore in the controls subteam. He’s in StormBots because it’s a fun way to fill up his freetime. To him, the hardest part of being on the team is the large commitment it is. If he wasn’t in controls, he’d want to be in programming because he feels he’s somewhat qualified…
