Haverford Robotics Club

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The Haverford Robotics Club is the club where the students of Haverford High School, including Plaz build various types of robots.

Currently, the club is known as Team 484, and has many people in it. Led by Mr. Benjamin Preddy, the team has gone to several competitions such as the Wissahickon and Drexel championships, and has won prestigious awards such as the Rookie Award, and two silver medals. It competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition.

Fall 2006

My rookie season in the club in 10th Grade. I took rookie classes and fixed up last year's robot, the "Blue Light Special", for the Ramp Riot Competition in Wissahickon. We won that by being randomly selected the substitute team for what happened to be the winning alliance. We had won outright in the previous 3 years, so other teams we a bit mad we still managed to win. We actually wanted to go home earlier in the day, but decided to stay. So it was quite a sight, the robot was packed up after we disappointed in qualifiers. Still it was a great feeling to "win". Some video of Ramp Riot 2006

Spring 2007

The game this year is "Rack n' Roll", announced at the 2007 Kickoff. This was my first build period, which lasts 6 weeks, and the club met 6 days a week, 6:30 to 9 PM each day in our shop. I worked on the sensors, a bit of the programming, and a bit of mechanical, and on the electrics. Mostly I just floated around learning as much as I could, helping where I can. We created the robot and shipped it off to the first competition in Annapolis, which is the weekend of March 16, 2007.

Photos of the build time and our robot for Haverford High School students on Facebook