Team 303 in a Nutshell

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Team 303In a NutshellFRC Team 303: The TEST TeamJudges Booklet / 2014


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Team 303 in a Nutshell

Its not about the robot -Paul Kloberg

Team 303 Faculty Advisor


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2014 Judges Booklet

PHILOSOPHY

Team 303 aims to inspire, educate,and help its community. We do thisthrough networking within our school,many programs to connect with ourcommunity, and working to produce thestrongest students possible.


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4-H FAIR

Its always a pleasure for the team toappear at the Somerset County 4-H Fair.During the 2013 fair, 303 took a largerrole in the science tent by hosting FRC

and FTC demonstrations, as well ashelping run a game to inspire the 4-HLEGO clubs to form FLL teams. We alsodesigned and built an outdoor robotdemonstration platform to make iteasier for us and other teams to drivetheir robots outside.


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BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN MAR DISTRICT

Team 303 did what it could to makethe MAR district that we host the bestone imaginable. We did this by goingabove and beyond the core event with avariety of fun add-ons. We had a spirit,a gaming table with fun guess thenumber in this container games, a funMicrosoft table, a celebrity appearanceto bring in a new audience, and severalra es. We also had a book, cell phone,and glasses drive to make an evenlarger positive impact.


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OPERATION: SHOEBOX

The team has recently formed a

partnership with the local Veteransof Foreign War organization. Theorganization sponsors the team, cameout to our FRC district to support us,and we helped them with a huge event,Operation: Shoebox. The team helpedpack over 800 care packages for troopsoverseas.


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FLL EVENT

Every year, Team 303 runs a large FLLevent. The members work one on onewith the teams, getting them to judging

appointments and matches, and makingsure both the students on FRC and FLLhave opportunities to learn. This year,the event had a team we started at ourmiddle school that was the runner upfor the Project Award.


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PRESENTATIONS

Making FIRST loud is an importanttask for Team 303. Whenever theopportunity springs up, we love to talkabout FIRST to people of all age groups.Whether its a short-notice after schoolpresentation to Girl Scouts, or hundredsof elementary school kids at one of ourdistricts science fairs, Team 303 doesnot take spreading the word of FIRSTlightly.


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FTC EVENTS

While Team 303s primary competitionis FRC, it makes sure to support theFTC community as well. Outside ofparenting two award-winning FTCteams, the team runs two FTC meetsevery year, as well as an outreach event.The meets are so large, that it may behard to tell them apart from quali ers.


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ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HOSPITAL

Recently, Team 303 had the honor ofhosting a table at the Rutgers universitydance marathon. The team brought itsFTC robots for the children there todrive. We gave away buttons, stressballs, and books; and overall triedto give the kids from Robert WoodJohnson an even better day.


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SUPERSTORM SANDY SUPPLY DRIVE

In order to help the relief e ort fromSuperstorm sandy, the team organizedand executed a large supply drive in just over a week. We were able to senda truck full of supplies to help StatenIsland, one of the most damaged areas.

PRACTICE FIELD

We are fortunate to have a largewarehouse to build our robot in. Thewarehouse can support an entire FRC

practice eld along with all of ourmachines and workspace. We allowother teams to come in, and use ourhomemade eld, so that way, teams caneliminate unpleasant surprises at their

rst competition.

PHYSICS CURRICULUM

Team 303 made engineering a biggerpart of its own school by workingto start the Engineering Technologyhonors course. The course goes overbasic topics in engineering in orderto give students an opportunity to geta head start on their future careers.We also injected engineering into thephysics curriculum with a unit based oof Woodie Flowers 2007 course at MIT.


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LABVIEW PROGRAMMING WORKSHOPS

Team 303 has a borderlineencyclopedic knowledge of LabView.We run programming workshops atour warehouse in order to spread thatknowledge to other teams.

VARSITY STATUS

The team is in its third season as avarsity team, and now, we even have

robotics-speci c sportsman jackets.We have o cial school banners in thegym with all the conventional sportsbanners, and our FIRST blue banners inthe library.

SUPPORTING OTHER FRC TEAMS

Last season, we started the rookie team4546 in Dover, New Hampshire. Wereached across state borders throughvideo chats, emails, and other ways toremotely mentor the new team. We arealso mentoring FRC team 613. Not allteams have had the opportunites thatweve had, so we do what we can to

support the FRC community. Were alsohelping FRC team 1676 reach varistystatus in their schools.


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Ive never been able to give a straight answer as to why I joined the robotics team. My brother said I shouldtry it out, and it seemed interesting, but why I signed the forms after the rst meeting is still a mystery. Fortunately, the reason I stay is much less ambiguous. I thought I would be building a robot, but I endedup working towards building a better school, better community, and better world.

- Tyler StarkTeam 303 Robot/Competition Captain

I often wonder how I would have been if I never joined robotics; I always fail to come to a conclusion dueto the fact that robotics is who I was in high school. Imagining who I would be without it is like trying toimagine what it would be like to be another person. Its just not possible.

- Ryan KingTeam 303 Team Development Captain

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