We are FIRST Team 1891, "The Bullbots". The Bullbots started at Mountain View High School in Meridian, Idaho in 2005. We have members from the whole of the Meridian School District and have been based at the Renaissance High School for the last few years.
This year we competed at the Utah Regional, where we were second out of 44 teams and also won the Industrial Engineering Design Award. We are also one of less than 40 teams in the nation to have climbed to the top of the pyramid used in the competion. What a blast!
Over the next year we are facing a challenge. Renaissance High School has been growing and the space we have been using is no longer available. We need to find a new home and obtain the tools we need to build next years robot. Aaron Maybon, the principal at Mountain View High School has graciously invited us to come back to MVHS, however, the school has very limited space and tools. At this time, we are asking for support from the community to keep this award winning robotics team up and running. We are in need of extensive financial support to build a facility on campus and tools to build our robot.
If you would like to support us, please email us at help@bullbots.org. We would be grateful for any help!
On April 19th, The Bullbots and Team Tators from Boise went to the HP Bring Your Inventor to Work Day. We showed off and demonstrated our robot throughout the day in different 30 minute sessions. We showed many videos, including the challange animation, and a video of our robot climbing to the third rail as seen in the post below. It was a long but fun day. Team Tators and The Bullbots shot frisbees as a demonstration that high schoolers can be inventors as well!
Here is some video from the Utah Regionals, showing our awesome robot winning through to the final out of 40+ robots.. We lost in match 2 of the final due to our hook breaking.
However, we were the only robot in the competition to climb past the first level - and one of only about 12 in the nation.
We did awesome at the regionals! we were ranked 2nd place along with our alliance, 1569 Haywire From Pocetallo ID, and 3251 Salmon Robotics From Salmon ID!!!!! It was a devistating loss though, our robot fell of from the pyrmaid in the last 5 seconds of the match. However, our robot was the only robot able to climb past the first rail on the pyrmaid out of everyone at the regionals, and one of only 12 robots that were able to climb up to the third rail!!!! how impressive is that!?!?! We are very proud of our hard work and efforts durring the build season.
Hey everone! We finally made it to Salt Lake, and it's great! We know that not everyone was available to come with us and that our parents really want to know what's going on. So our fellow FRC team from Boise, Team Tators have supplied us with this link to their live stream of the event! We hope everyone enjoys it, and we would like to thank everyone for helping us get this far this year!
2/16/2013 - This was our final weekend to work with our robot before we bag and tag the robot. Being such a crucial time period, we made valuable use of our time:
Throughout the duration of this year's build season, our team has attended an impressive amount of events ranging from high school basketball games to half-time shows for semi-pro basketball teams. Our latest effort to spread the word of FIRST and our team was at the Boise State University sponsored STEM Day.
2/9/2013 - We built a wall for our new building area on the edge of the Idaho State University branch attached to RHS. It took time and effort away from the robot, but as we near the end of our build season, we have enough extra hands to work on larger side-projects. With only9 sessions left, we are working hard to keep everyone motivated and working towards our goals including but not limited to the 2013 robot, the 2013 Salt Lake Regional, and continuing to help other teams with PR! Today our team participated in the BSU Discover Engineering Day, where we were able to demo our robot from last year along with Team 2122, the Taters, and Team 4106, the Bots of Prey.
The third Saturday of the 2013 build season has passed and construction of the robot is in full swing! Our programming, electrical, and mechanical teams are working hard to complete the robot as fast as possible and are acheiving some amazing levels of team work and cooperation above that which we have seen in past years.
Here is some video from the Utah Regionals, showing our awesome robot winning through to the final out of 40+ robots.. We lost in match 2 of the final due to our hook breaking.
