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Welcome to the Bullbots Home Page

We are FIRST Team 1891, "The Bullbots". The Bullbots started at Mountain View High School in Meridian, Idaho in 2005.  By 2010, we had expanded to include members from four other Meridian School District high schools and were able to move into a larger, more specialized facility at Renaissance High School. Our team competed in the Portland Regional until the inaugural year of the Salt Lake City Regional Competition (2010) where we have competed ever since.  See More

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Team Updates

Relay for Life 2012

The Bullbots are participating in their 4th American Cancer Society Relay for Life event at Bishop Kelly High School on July 13th and 14th. Teams particiate in this all night walk-a-thon and get donations for their efforts.  The proceeds from this event benefit research and local programs to help cancer patients and survivors in the community.  If you would like to donate, please go to this website and select "donate".  Your donation will help many in our community who struggle to fight this disease every day.

Summer Camps!

Summer Break is fast approaching, which means we will be offering another set of Bullbots Mindstorm camps!  These camps will feature building robots out of Lego Mindstorms sets, as well as introducing programming concepts!  The Spring Break camps are on June 4-8 and August 6-10 and are recommended for ages 8-12.

plexus presentation

This last Monday (May 14, 2012) a group of our Bullbots visited our sponsor Plexus to give a presentation about our team, our achievements, the FRC competition, and FIRST as a whole. During this presentation, we also showed off our newly aquired Web Site Excellence Award! As we come up on summer, we are looking forward to our end of the year party this weekend, and the Relay for Life this July!

Utah Regional 2012

FIRST Team 1891 had a great time at Utah’s Regional Competition again this year.  After a crash diet prior to the “bag and tag” deadline, we were excited to get our robot out on the competition field.  The first few matches didn’t go as well as we had hoped.  However, the drivers, programmers, and pit crew got the glitches worked out and things started to really fall into place by mid-morning Friday.   Many of the matches went down to the last seconds:  will the alliance get a robot balanced, will they get two?  Our team was pleased to be selected by FIRST Team 473- the Robo Devils, to be p

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Utah Regional 2012
results

2012 Utah Regional - Woodie Flowers Award Winner - Dean Klein

Bullbots CPR Training

March 5th, most of the Bullbots met to do CPR training and help improve team safety.

     

Post build Prep time

Last week was the end of our 2012 build season, and now we are getting ready for our next adventure at the Salt lake regional competition!

Here are some pictures of our progress getting ready for our endeavor.

 

Almost Done!

 

We are in the final few days before the end of the 2012 FRC build season!

2012 Build Season

2012 Game FieldThe FIRST Robotics Competition "Build Season" kick-off was on January 7th.  This year's game was announced to us live via the internet at the Micron Engineering Center at BSU. Afterwards, our team returned to Renaissance High School to begin planning a robot to compete in this year's game. In the upcoming weeks, we will put these plans into action.

The game is called Rebound Rumble, a basketball-based game with a few twists. Two Alliances, consisting of three robots each, compete to score the most baskets in a 2 minute and 15 second match. The higher the hoop, the more points scored. At the end of the match, a team can score extra points by successfully balancing one or more robots on ramps located in the center of the field.