After a year of setbacks, we were finally able to compete again for the 2024-2025 FTC competition, Into the Deep. While it wasn't the outcome we had hoped for, we were matched against the top teams in our region and still placed 8th overall out of 19 teams which is a great result considering our circumstances.
Being the runner up for the Connect Award we have connected the dots between our community, FIRST, and the diversity of the engineering world. We are more than a sum of our parts and recognize that engaging our local STEM community plays an essential part in our success.
Being the Motivate Award winner we have sparked others to embrace the culture of FIRST. We embrace the culture of FIRST and clearly show what it means to be a team. We represent the essence of the FIRST Tech Challenge competition through Gracious Professionalism® and general enthusiasm for the overall philosophy of FIRST and what it means to be a FIRST Tech Challenge team. Longhorn Robotics makes a collective effort to make FIRST known throughout our school and community, and sparks others to embrace the culture of FIRST.
Being the runner up for the Think Award we have best reflected our journey as a team throughout the year. Our engineering portfolio and engineering notebook accomplishes this with great quality. Kudos to our Notebook Team and all those members who helped edit and revise our notebook.
Being the runner up for the Connect Award we have embodied the challenge of the FIRST Tech Challenge program. We have shown that we are a strong ambassador for FIRST programs and a role model FIRST team. With this award, we were placed as the 19th advancement for the upcoming regional tournament.
This has been our best result since our club's founding. From a slow start initially, we have progressed through the ranks to be the fourth alliance captain in the tournament. From there, we went through a grueling three rounds, where we won against the number one seed once. Though not enough to get us to the Finals, we had the third most points among the group.
Founded in 2017 at Leigh High School in San Jose, CA we have had the mission to educate and engage students of all ages in STEM and robotics. As we embody our mission, we develop technical and non-techical skills while building competitive robots for the FIRST Tech Challenge.
Every year we construct and code a new robot from the ground up to meet the challenge that FIRST has given us. This year's prompt involves us picking up cones them placing them atop poles to create a circuit. We then compete in tournaments across the Bay Area against and with other FTC teams.