Team 451 - History
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Year 2010 Build Build Videos Pittsburgh Cleveland Robot Eye Videos Lawnmower 2009 Build Buckeye Purdue Lawnmower Burnout Bot 2008 Build Build 2 Competition Lawnmower Energy Fair Lego League 2007 Build Great Lakes Cleveland Lawnmower 2006 Build West Michigan Ypsilanti Nationals Lawnmower Resources Games 2009 - Lunacy Animaiton Manual 2010 - Breakaway Animaiton Manual Tom's Corner Official FIRST Links Official FIRST Website FTC Program FLL Program Official FIRST Forums . FIRST Team Resources Chief Delphi Forums NASA's FIRST Website Logos . The Spirit of FIRST Gracious Professionalism Innovation Sponsors Sitemap FIRST	The Cat Attack was originally founded as the Northview I-Questers in the year 2000 at Northview High School in Sylvania, Ohio. A small group of students approached the school's new chemistry teacher, Andy Roth, and told him about a robot competition they had recently found out about. The students wanted to form a school team that would compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition, and asked Mr. Roth if he would agree to be their advisor. The new team of students were able to get a generous donation from Sylvania Schools in order to pay the entry fee for the FIRST Great Lakes Regional in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Meanwhile, Mr. Roth got permission to use an empty chemistry lab at the University of Toledo where the team could construct their robot. Using nothing more than tools obtained from team member's garages, the I-Questers built their first robot, which they named Mo-Bot in honor of the team's founding student. For the 2001 season, the I-Questers obtained major corporate sponsorship from the Toledo-based Dana Corporation. The team worked out of Dana's Spicer Driveshaft division using many new resources that Dana was able to offer to them including a machine shop and employees who volunteered as engineering mentors. In 2002, the I-Questers opened their team to include members from Sylvania Southview High School. With the addition of new team members from their sister school, the team voted to change their name to the Cat Attack. Thanks to the generosity of Dana, this was the first year the team could afford to attend two regional competitions. In 2003, the Cat Attack made their first ever appearance in the elimination rounds of a regional FIRST competition. Their robot, "Project Mayhem", placed 4th in the qualifying rounds at the 1st annual FIRST Pittsburgh Regional. They were eliminated in the quarter finals after their robot battery fell out just seconds into the match. At the 2004 FIRST Great Lakes Regional, the Cat Attack won their first judge's award with their robot, "Philbot". The "General Motors Industrial Design Award" was presented to the Cat Attack for Philbot's incredibly simple, yet effective design. In 2005 the Cat Attack made their first ever trip to the FIRST National Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. The team's robot, "Craze Eye", finished 13th in the 80 team Archimedes division. The 2006 season brought the Cat Attack their first regional runner-up finish at the FIRST Great Lakes Regional. Just two weeks after that, the team accomplished their first regional championship win at the FIRST Western Michigan Regional. Thanks to an emergency fund-raiser drive, the team was able to take their robot, "Darkside", to the FIRST Championship for the second year in a row. They swept the Curie division and advanced to the national semi-finals to finish the best year in team history For 2007, Cat Attack decided to "Rack and Roll" on the high seas with their robot, πR8. A simple 2 stage pneumatic system allowed the robot to easily place the inner-tube game pieces on all 3 levels of the "rack" on the playing field. The team took home a Judge's Award from the Buckeye Regional in Cleveland for their overwhelming team spirit. They also participated in the FIRST Great Lakes Regional this year. In the 2008 season, students on the Cat Attack team experimented with several mechanism prototypes, including pneumatics, scissors lift, and winches in an effort to find the most effective way to lift this year's game piece, a large, heavy ball, six feet into the air. They eventually chose a forklift mechanism for their robot, CATastrophe. The team attended the Pittsburgh and Great Lakes regionals where they participated in the elimination rounds of each event. 2009 Brought a new control system that allowed really cool programming of the robot. The Team created "Apollo 451" for the '09 game, "Lunacy". Apollo featured a harvester that was made of PVC pipes, that moved the balls from the floor, to the flywheel, where they were shot out, into enemy trailers. This year, The Cat Attack Attended the Buckeye and Boilermaker Regionals, taking home only the Website Excellence award.
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