Successful 2009 Team
April 20, 2009Our team was very successful this year as we reached the finals before losing in the final round. The game this year honored the 40th anniversary of 
Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. The robots had to pick up moon rocks and and place them in the opposing alliance trailers. An empty cell could be picked up and exchange for a super cell. For each moon rock that is placed in an opposing alliance’s trailer, your alliance would receive 2 points. If you were able to score a super cell, you would receive 15 points but these could only enter the playing field during the last 20 seconds of the round.
ISTI V was designed with a conveyor belt to pick up the rocks from the playing field and load them in a basket. After we pinned an opposing trailer, ISTI would dump the rock into the trailer. 
During the seeding matches, our team finished with a 5-1-1 record for a seventh place finish. During the quarter finals, the team had to win five matches in a best of three because of field malfunctions. The team won two semi-final matches to move onto the finals where they fell in two matches.
The team did very well as they built the robot in four weeks and made minor engineering adjustments.
