This year's competition is called FIRST Overdrive. This game is played on a track. There are two alliances, one red and one blue, each alliance consists of three team members. The point of the game is to get a higher score than your opponent by running your robot around the track while taking trackballs with you, and putting them over or under the overpass that bisects the track.
Bomb Squad to Demonstrate Robots at County Fair
Mountain Home High School's Bomb Squad will be demonstrating our robots at the Baxter County Fair September 10th through 13th. Be sure to stop by and talk to us in the main exhibit building just to the left of the main stage.
Bomb Squad Wins Leadership in Controls Award at IRI
Mountain Home High School's Bomb Squad won the Leadership In Controls award at the Indiana Robotics Invitational tournament (IRI). IRI is an off-season event that draws 72 of the top robots in the world to compete. The Bomb Squad went undefeated through the qualifying matches capturing the number 1 seed and the first pick in the alliance selection. In the first round team 1114 Simbotics was selected creating the basis for a dominant team. Their second and third selections were 2056 & 1038.
If anything can go wrong...it will and did! With one robot dead in each semifinal match, the alliance lost ending Bomb Squads undefeated run at IRI. All was not lost when the Bomb Squad won the Leadership In Controls award during the final award ceremony which was the first award won at IRI in three years of participation.
Bomb Squad places second in world competition!
Mountain Home High School's Bomb Squad won the silver medal in the FIRST
Robotics World Championship this past weekend in Atlanta.
The Bomb Squad was among 344 teams from around the world competing and
more than 20,000 attended the events at the Georgia Dome. The competition
also was on NASA Television and on web casts.
Bomb Squad Selected to Beta Test New Controls
Mountain Home High School's Bomb Squad has been selected as one of the beta test teams that will be testing the new control system for FIRST. Check back here for more information coming soon.
