About the Team
Team 100 is a mixture of Woodside and Carlmont high schools. The team started in 1995 with about nine students and a passion for robotics. Over the years, the number of people on the team has slowly grown to 33 people with that same passion for robotics. In 2003, students from Carlmont High School came to work with Team 100. Team 100 extended an invitation to Carlmont to become a permanent part of the team and Carlmont graciously accepted. Recently, Team 100 has been mentoring a few students from Sequoia High School, who have joined to help them get a feeling for the game and be ready to start their own team in a few years. For Team 100, robotics is not just about the competitions, it is a year round commitment.
LEGO League
In an effort to start a LEGO League team, Team 100 took Vex and LEGO robots to a Thursday science night at Roy Cloud to introduce the 9- 14 year olds to LEGO league. At least 50 kids and their parents attended the festivities that night. Bob Steinfield brought a LEGO League field set up and the kids were allowed to control the robots and get a feel for it. We heard back from many of the children that attended that night’s events that went on to attend Steve Putez’s LEGO league camp over the summer.
CAL Games
This year we helped plan and host (for the third time in the last five years) the Northern California Robotics games, sponsored by Western regional robotics forum. About 23 teams participated on Saturday, October 13. Even though there where fewer teams than a real regional, this event had all or more of the energy that characterizes the games. Teams played as if a ticket to Atlanta depended on it, but it was all just for fun.
FIRST LEGO League Competition
On December 9, 2007, Team 100 volunteered once again to help run the 2007 Hillsborough LEGO League regional tournament at Nueva School. They DJed, recorded video, ran the concessions booth, and refereed the games.
Robotics Camp
A couple of Team 100 students were assistant teachers in a summer program designed to help teach engineering concepts to young minds from ages 4 to 9 for ten weeks over the summer.
Eight Grade Orientation
Team 100 made a presentation to future students of Woodside High School to try to convince students that not only was Woodside an excellent school, but Team 100 was the club to join. As parents and students streamed in to the theater, we demonstrated our robot’s prowess, entertaining people before the orientation. Also, during the orientation, we talked to the future students about our team and why it is so great.
Physics Day
On May 11, 2007 at eight o’clock in the morning, 10,000 students from around the Bay Area descended upon Great America to take part in a large laboratory disguised as an amusement park. This day, done once a year at Great America, is dedicated to the learning of physics, mathematics, and science. At Physics Day, Team 100 demonstrated their robot for the people in their small booth in front of Top Gun. Many people got to see what FIRST is about, and we had an awesome time.
Tour of Woodside
Every year, Woodside High School hosts an annual Tour for Woodside, a fundraiser to raise money for the Woodside education funds. The Woodside High School foundation helps us financialy support our robotics team by matching donations from individual contributions. As a thank you to the school for always supporting us, we decided to help out in any way possible. Team 100 students arrived at 5 am to help riders register for the race, assist with set up, biker safety, roadside rest-stops, and parking arrangements. At the end of the day we used our robot to help distribute goody bags.
School Board
On October 31, 2007, Team 100, along with Team 766, demonstrated our robots to our Sequoia District school board to educate the school board about robotics and what it means to our students, as well as why it is so important to us and why we need their support. As we drove our robots around, the school board was reminded that we are the future.
Parades
In 2007 we participated in two local community parades, the Woodside Mayday Parade and San Carlos Hometown Days. At each event we brought the robot and demonstrated its abilities while throwing candy to the crowd. The younger children found it fun to be able to interact with the robot and the game pieces, allowing them to experience some of the game.
The team, this year, consists of students with a passion for electronics, mechanics, animation, programming, and much more. The team doesn’t always get along but for the long run, they work great together. Everyone is grateful for everyone else and we are all equally lucky to have each other on this team, because our robot is our whole team’s effort. We are not in anyway a one person team, we are one team with many people.
