Team 577, “Wrecker Robotics” is a completely student-run FTC team composed of Staples High School students from Westport Connecticut. The students design and build robots on their own through a collaborative process in a team member’s basement. The team has a strong tradition of attracting and mentoring new members each year. The experienced members mentor new team members and those new members will become the next mentors thus continuing the legacy of the team and FIRST FTC program.
GOING BACK TO WORLDS!!
Inspire Award
FIRST Tech Challenge Inspire Award
This formally judged award is given to the team that truly embodied the ‘challenge’ of the FTC program. The team that receives this award is chosen by the judges as having best represented a ‘role model’ FIRST Tech Challenge Team. This team is a top contender for all other judging categories and is a strong competitor on the field. The Inspire Award Winner is an inspiration to other teams, acting with Gracious Professionalism™ both on and off the playing field. This team understands how to communicate their experiences and knowledge to other teams, sponsors, and the judges.
In past seasons, the winner of the Inspire Award at each Championship event received an automatic invitation to the FTC World Championship Event. Once a team has won an Inspire Award at a Championship, they are no longer eligible to win the Inspire Award at additional championship tournaments they may attend. Similarly, once a team wins an Inspire Award at a Qualifying tournament, they are no longer eligible to win the Inspire Award at subsequent Qualification tournaments.
Guidelines for the Inspire Awards
- Team must demonstrate respect and Gracious Professionalism both for team members and fellow teams
- Engineering Notebook must be submitted, and must impress the judges
- Team must work beyond their robot to help spread awareness of the team, FIRST, and the FIRST Tech Challenge within the community
- Team displays good communication and teamwork skills within the team as well as with their alliances
- Team communicates clearly about their robot design to the judges
- Team presents themselves well in the judges interview
- Robot effectively competes in the game challenge and impresses the judges
- Team and Robot consistently performs well during matches
- Team is a strong contender for all other judged awards
The Rockwell Collins Innovate Award celebrates a team that not only thinks outside the box, but also has the ingenuity and inventiveness to make their designs come to life. This judged award is given to the team that has the most innovative and creative robot design solution to any or all specific field elements or components in the FIRST Tech Challenge game. Elements of this award include elegant design, robustness, and ‘out of the box’ thinking related to design. This award may address the design of the whole robot, or of a sub‐assembly attached to the robot. The creative component must work consistently, but a robot does not have to work all the time during matches to be considered for this award. The team’s Engineering Notebook should be marked with journal entries to show the design of the component(s) and the team’s robot in order to be eligible for this award, and entries should describe succinctly how the team arrived at that solution.
Guidelines for the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award.
- Robot or robot sub‐assembly must be elegant and unique in its design
- Creative component must work reliably
- Team must submit an Engineering Notebook
- Robot is stable, robust and controllable
- Robot design is efficient and consistent with team plan and strategy
2012/2013 Team
2010/2011 World Championship team
Recent Announcements
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Wrecker Robotics Is Headed to Worlds!!! On Feb 16 Wrecker Robotics won the CT State Championship and earned the right to compete in St. Louis in the FIRST World Championship. The team's goal is to ...
Posted Feb 18, 2013, 7:04 AM by john solder -
Wrecker Robotics competes in NY event On January 27 Wrecker Robotics competed in the NY Hudson Valley regional state championship event at Pace University in Westchester NY.This was our second event of the weekend and ...
Posted Feb 3, 2013, 9:37 AM by john solder -
Wrecker Robotics wins first Inspire Award! Wrecker Robotics won their very first Inspire Award on January 26 at the North Andover MA state qualifier event. This award was completely unexpected for the team. We worked really ...
Posted Feb 3, 2013, 9:41 AM by john solder
