The VEX 2011 Season has come to a close for the Terrier Robotics team. The team was amazing this year and set a high bar for competition. Team #99 (RHS Varsity) set a new school record bringing home four tournament champions trophies, after only going to five competitions for the season. The team also had an amazing Record at the Huntington Beach Competition scoring 113 pts in Driver Skills. A big shout out to the members of Team 99, which includes Sven Blaser, Kyle Rosendale, Erik Blaser, and Tad Kasulka. These guys were absolutely amazing this season with team chemistry, and getting the job done to the highest level possible, which contributed big to the teams success. The JV team 99B struggled this season, but the Freshman team #99C stayed with the Varsity team always competing and challenging the other teams well. They brought home Runner-up multiple times, and also qualified for the world championships. Unfortunately neither the Varsity team #99, or team #99C with a combined six qualifications for world, will be able to go due to the high cost of the trip. The Terrier Robotics team is now one of the best in southern California, and look to keep that going in future seasons. The team will now also be working on side projects for school districts, and other vehicles that will be controlled using robotics systems. The team is also currently looking for sponsors for next season, so the program can continue to grow and hopefully be able to pay for the world championship trip next year. We would like to thank BAKERS, as well as the Redlands Optimist Club for huge donations during the season. We look forward to next season and the challenges that it will bring.

Terrier Robotics now has a website, due to high press demand. This website will make it easier for you to follow the team as well as contact us. Please feel free to check it out, at Terrier Robotics also now has a team E-mail for team 99. The E-mail is robodogzteam99@gmail.com We greatly appreciate you following us and we will keep the blog running and updated but if you want more information like pictures, and to see our Press releases please visit the website. Also if you are interested in sponsoring the team the easiest way to contact us is to send us an e-mail or visit the contact page on the new website where you can fill out a contact form and send us a message directly from the site.
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Thank You - Terrier Robotics Team 99

Terrier Robotics is showing their ability and power this season, that has been taken to a new level. Thadeous Kasulka, Kyle Rosendale, Erik Blaser, and Sven Blaser are the members on Team 99, and have worked since august to build and program an amazing robot.
This season has been great for Team 99. They have been unbelievable in competition and are currently sitting with a 37-2 win-loss record. This season the Terrier Robotics Varsity team 99, has taken home three Tournament Champion trophies, the Energy award, Cooperate award; and the Freshman team 99C has taken home two Judges awards, one innovate award, and one tournament finalist award. This last saturday the varsity team also took home the Driver Skills Challenge award with a record setting 103 points. They also had the high score for the day with a score of 89 points, in the quarter finals round. This season team 99 has qualified four times for the VEX World Championships in Orlando, FL. The World Championships will be held April 14-16 and Terrier Robotics is looking to have a strong showing there as well. The team has also been getting increased press including, Front page article for the Redlands Daily Facts newspaper. ABC 7 News has also covered the team, including video of the robot, and interviews which will air tonight at 6:00PM. The school has also been enthusiastic about the teams success and want to see them go all the way. However to be able to attend the VEX World Championships to compete from 400 teams, from all around the world the team needs to raise $5,000. The $5,000 includes transportation (airfare, and rental car), hotel, food, and the registration fee for the team. We therefore need sponsors to help fund this trip, to make it possible. We would like to thank last years sponsors, who helped us out last year to get to the VEX 2010 World Championships in Dallas, Texas. We would also like to thank Bakers who has been a strong sponsor this year. If you would like to sponsor us please contact us.

Contact Info:
Brian Bartlett
Redlands High School
840 E Citrus Ave
Redlands, CA 92374
(909)-307-5500 x30906

On Saturday, January 16, 2011, Redlands High School Robotics competed again at Sultana High School for the High Desert VEX Round Up Championship. All three of our teams once again were amazing, finishing all three, in the top three alliances at the end of the day. All of our teams have had to overcome multiple problems throughout the year so far, but we finally fixed them all and performed at the top. Team 99 went undefeated through qualifiers and had over 70 SP points going into the tournament placing us in first. Team 99 was the captain for the first seated alliance partnering with team 1680C from St. Luke School, and 1879D from Sultana High School. Team 99C was the captain for the third seed alliance and partnered with 99B and 1680A from St. Luke School. Team 99 continued excellence throughout the rest of the competition and placed first, scoring over 145 points in the finals match of two games. Team 99 and its alliance members therefore earned the title of Tournament Champions earning, Sven Blaser, Erik Blaser, Kyle Rosendale, and Tad Kasulka the qualification for World Championships the second time this season. Team 99C, and 99B also performed excellent, and placed third at the end of the day after being eliminated in the Semi-Finals. 99C however did not come home empty handed and won the Judges Award. We would also like to congratulate team 951A from Murrieta Mesa High School who received the Excellence award and were amazing opponents throughout the day. We would also like to thank our amazing sponsors once again, for helping fund everything that we do. If you are interested in sponsoring us please leave a comment below, and we will get back to you.

On Sunday, December 12, 2010 Terrier Robotics once again sent all three teams to another competition. This time it took place at Poway High School, for the Poway VEX Robotics Competition. Once again the Terrier Robotics teams did not disappoint, and placed Teams 99 and 99C (allied together) for a third place finish along with one other robot as part of the alliance from another school. Terrier Robotics did not come home empty handed however, Team 99 won the Energy Award for the day, and team 99C won the judges award. We were happy to bring home two more trophies, to add to the collection at Redlands High School. To hopefully gain a better advantage to place first at the next competitions many modifications are now being made to our three robots to prepare for them. Included in the modifications is a complete re design to the team 99 Robot (article below). We are currently still looking for new sponsors, and would like to thank our current sponsors for helping us get this far.

Since we returned from our last competition at Poway High School( By the way Poway deserves a big shout out, especially to John who set the whole thing up as his senior project, great job guys!) we saw the need to redesign some of our robot. The first problem was the drive, since we had alot of things attached to the new ECU the overheating function was turned on when it wasn't supposed to and it shut down our left side motor, we attempted to fix this by rewiring some stuff but in the end it did not help; our second problem was our sweeper and lift, even though they worked flawlessly they had no advantage during play because of our driving style and the style of the other teams. We'll post a video of the sweeper a little later in the season. To fix these problems we decided to completely remove the ring collector system and work on a intricate autonomous and a perfectly functioning robot otherwise. This should help the overheating problem because we will be mounting less things and having less motors use power, and it should overall make the robot lighter and faster which are key components to this years challenge. We will be posting pictures of our robot soon after its completion.

Team 99 took first place at the High Desert Vex Round Up Competition in Hesperia, CA yesterday. Therefore team 99 has qualified for the VEX World Championships in Orlando, FL. Terrier robotics had an amazing day with all 3 teams reaching the semi finals, but unfortunately our 99B and 99C team were allied together, and faced the 99 team allied with the 563B team in the semi finals and 99B, and 99C were then eliminated from competition. We would also like to congratulate team 563B who accepted our request to alliance with our team 99 in the elimination tournament after qualifying rounds. Team 563B also earned the title of tournament champion along with team 99. We would like to congratulate all teams who made it to finals as well as the other two Redlands High Teams who had a very strong showing.

The three Redlands High School Robotics Teams are entered in the High Desert Vex Round Up Championship, taking place at Sultana High School this Saturday (Nov 13). Tomorrow we will be having a final practice as well as finishing last minute things, on the robots. We will also be adding our sponsors logos onto the robots, and creating our team T-Shirts. We look forward to competition with all local teams we face, and wish the best of luck to all in competition. We will be leaving RHS at approximately 7:00AM arriving before 8:00AM at Sultana High School in Hesperia, CA. Come out and support your Redlands High School Terriers.

All three teams have now completed the building stage of the robots, and programming for user control has also been completed. The teams are now practicing driving and operation controls and fixing last minute problems. We will be competing in two weeks at Sultana High School, Saturday, November 13 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Team 99 will be using the new VEX Cortex Microcontroller as well as two VEXnet Joysticks to operate the robot. Team 99B will be using the VEXnet upgrade bundle on the 75MHz Transmitter & Receiver, and Team 99C will be operating their robot with the 75MHz Transmitter & Receiver. Once again thanks to all our sponsors for helping us get this far!

As we are approaching one month till our first competition, our teams are getting very excited and a lot of hard work is still being done. The Varsity team #99 recently ordered and received our new VEXnet System bundle, as well as purchasing multiple high strength motors for the teams. Final touches and programming with the new VEXnet are being done for team #99, while the other two teams, #99B, and #99C are still very busy in the building stages and are making fast progress. We are all looking forward to competition, and once again would like to thank our sponsors who make all of this happen.

A great few weeks so far, the two new teams have stayed with us and finished building their protobot projects. I would like to thanks the new team members on Team 99b, Nick Thomas, Matt Mayo, and Devin ! As well as our new members on Team 99c Charlie Macleod and Bobby! Everyone is working on robots, our varsity team already has a design and is putting everything together, some pictures will be posted later. Our J.V teams are currently designing and brainstorming to come up with something to beat the Varsity robot! Good luck to everyone!

This is a picture of the Robot that was created in less than five hours before the clubs on the mall, that occurred last Wednesday night (September 15, 2010). If you would like a more detailed build explanation or info, see the below post entitled "Clubs on the Mall"

This Last Wednesday Redlands High School had a shortened day and students were released at 11:33. The Terrier Robotics Varsity team took the time to design and build a robot for the clubs on the mall in addition to our two proto-bots, and our Prototype Round-Up Robot. In less than five hours the four varsity members, (Sven, Erik, Tad, and Kyle) built a robot. The Robots basic design was a cage with a top cover that opened with the pneumatics, creating a mouth, and had eyes and a nose on top of the cage. The robot was created with two bumper switches, (one to shut motors off, and one to fire pneumatics). It also had four other motors for the drive system. The pneumatics system consisted of two air tanks and two firing pistons on each side. The robot was programmed by Sven Blaser, and put on display later that night for the Clubs on the Mall which occurred during the Redlands High School Open House. We were very joyed to have interest in the club from fellow students, parents, teachers, and administration. Thanks for your Support. - 2010-2011 Varsity Team

Mr. Bartlett - Advisor to the club, 4th Year

RHS Junior Varsity TEAM #99B

Mr. Bartlett - Advisor to the club, 4th Year
RHS VARSITY TEAM #99

Our Varsity team just won they're first tournament, after finishing in second and third place in all the previous tournaments we went undefeated for the entire day. 6-0 in the qualifying rounds then two straight best out of three matches to claim the championship. We would like to thank Team 254a aka "The Cheesy Poofs" and Team 404c for their help in the final rounds of competition. We will post pictures of the match and some more descriptions. Since we won the tournament we have qualified for the Vex World Championship in Dallas Texas!! We have started fundraising so we can attend the event.

For the 2009-2010 season our team consists of 11 members. Varsity members have been in the club atleast one year and have made a significant contribution to the club. Junior Varsity members are in their first year.
Mr. Bartlett - Advisor to the club, 4th
Erik Blaser - President, Driver, Notebook, Builder, Design Specialist (Varsity) 11th, 3rd year
Sven Blaser - Vice President, Head Programmer, Program Specialist, Driver (Varsity) 10th, 2nd year
Tad Kasulka - Treasurer/Secretary, Programmer, Driver, Builder (Varsity) 10th, 2nd year
Alex - Head Builder, Driver, Build Specialist,  (Varsity) 10th, 2nd year
Boyce Asquith - Builder, Design (Varsity) 10th, 2nd year
Shane Joseph - Builder, Design  (Varsity) 11th, 3rd year
Trent Gillard - Design, Build (Varsity) 11th, 2nd year
Hans Tang - Builder, Design, Base Specialist (Junior Varsity) 9th, 1st year
Junaiel Saleem - Build Design,Base Specialist  (Junior Varsity) 12th, 1st year
Grant Hoel - Builder, Design (Junior Varsity) 10th, 1st year
Lawrence Frehner - Programmer, Builder (Junior Varsity) 10th, 1st year

This was our 09' team with our FTC robot for that year. We placed 3rd twice and 2nd once with our Vex robot (Not pictured). And with the FTC robot we went undefeated until the finals in the CSUN competition and 3rd place in the San Diego competition.

  

Our club recieved a donation in the for of a Vex playing mat last week =) yay. That means we can finally perfect the autonomous sequence at our school instead of at the competitions. So we'd like to thank Andreas and Nadia Blaser for their donations. Thank you very much