We are the Mountlake Terrace High School FIRST Robotics team. Each year we have 6 weeks to build a robot to carry out a task in a game that’s specified at the FIRST Robotics kick off event in early January. Our design depends on the game specification that we receive from FIRST. In that 6 weeks we design, fabricate, and program our robot. To accomplish this, we have to fundraise and promote our robot yearlong.

Animation Story board Visualization Competition:

This is my storyboard for the visualization award with 3ds max 2008. The topic for the animation was to invent an invention about the community. Some examples provided by the competition was to show the design process, what the invention did, or the effect on the community. I decided  show the what happened before the animtion and and what the animation did. I went along the lines of improving freeways by removing traffic which causes pollution, traffic accidents, and noise pollution. The first  scene is the traffic people must go through to get to work. Then I animted a bumper to bumper accident. After that I introduced my invention. My invention was the use of computers to control cars on the freeway. The would be done by the computers controling the paths of all the cars on the freeway This is very possible since the technology is already there and we just have to impletment it.  This will keep a constant speed on the free way and keep a constant distance between each vehical.  This will reduce pollution and may put an end to traffic accidents with inferior humans not behind the steering wheel.

F.I.R.S.T:

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a multinational non-profit organization, that aspires to transform culture, making science, math, engineering, and technology as cool for kids as sports are today.

FIRST was founded in 1989 by Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway Human Transporter. FIRST operates the FIRST Robotics Competition in which teams of high school students, sponsored and assisted by local companies and volunteers, design, assemble, and test a robot capable of performing a specified task in competition with other teams. FIRST also runs the FIRST LEGO League, for children 9-14 years old, and FIRST Place, an innovative science and technology center, including a hands-on children's science museum.

FIRST was founded on partnerships with businesses, educational institutions and government. Many Fortune 500 companies provide funding, in-kind donations and volunteers to support the program.

The key to FIRST's success is the work of over 25,000 volunteer mentors, professional engineers, teachers, and other adults working with students across the country. In addition to the thousands of volunteer team mentors, FIRST competitions and other events were organized and staffed by over 14,000 event and committee volunteers. Through these volunteers, FIRST programs engaged over 70,000 young people during the last year. FIRST programs are growing rapidly in the United States and Canada, and demand is accelerating in other countries.

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