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Northern California Regional Championships 2020 – Independence High School, San Jose
This weekend Omega attended our second-ever regional championships. Like last season, the NorCal Regionals was held at Independence High School. On Saturday, a small group of Omega members attended to showcase our robot and outreach to the judges and also go through inspection. We finished judging and inspection without much trouble, and the next day most of the team attended for the qualification matches.
Unfortunately, due to the extraneous circumstances caused by Covid-19, our original drivers couldn’t come, which meant that Viva and Nidhir stepped up to drive the robots during teleop. Our autonomous had been tuned the week prior to regionals thanks in large part to Rebecca, but unfortunately we realized at the competition that we’d need to tune it again since the fields were slightly different.
While our team finished at 20th seed in the Gold Division, we were able to win the Think Award, which guaranteed our spot at the Houston World Championships 2020! This is the first time in Omega history that our team has advanced to Worlds!
We are so excited to continue innovating and rebuilding our robot to compete and we’d like to thank all of our hard-working members and equally dedicated parents for their support. Without all of you, this wouldn’t have been possible.
Update: Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, FIRST has decided to cancel the World Championships. However, Omega will still be working hard to perfect a Skystone robot with the help of FTC 16197 SWARM.
Omega Engineering Binder 2018-19
Below is Omega’s Engineering Binder for the 2018-19 season. Click on sections from the Table of Contents to skip to that section, and scroll within the embedded document. You can also view the binder on Google Docs here.
Redesigning, Rebuilding, and Preparation for Regionals: Meeting Entries #55-71
Meeting 55
Date: 1/15/19
Time: 3:30-5:30
Attendance: Trinity, Rebecca, Nidhir, Ananya, Josephine, Afra, Rohan
Plans/Goals
- Reformatted our sponsorship email into a formal business letter
- Retighten drivetrain motor mounts
What Was Accomplished
- Started reformatting our sponsorship email into a formal business letter
Notes/Additional Information
- At the qualifier, our chain kept coming undone because of the motor mounts, so we need to take the top layer of the drivetrain to tighten the motor mount, which is why now we’re reattaching the top layer of the drivetrain
- GOATS came over to our workspaces today
Reflection/Takeaways
- Trinity needs to take a break
- We need to do a better at doing binder entries
Regionals CAD Renders
Qualifer 3 – Meeting Entry
Date: 1/12/19
Time: 7:00-6:00
Attendance: Trinity, Tommy, Rebecca, Nidhir, Ananya, Sriteja
Plans/Goals
- This is our last chance to advance to regionals, either through actually winning or earning the Inspire Award, but we need to actually have fun
- Don’t stress about too much about advancing
- Last time we put too much pressure on ourselves and couldn’t enjoy being at the competition
- We barely have any prep time, so we likely won’t do too well anyways
What Was Accomplished
- We got nominated for a lot of awards and became a Alliance Captain, which was awesome!
- 3rd in Connect
- 2nd in Control
- 2nd in Inspire
- 2nd in Innovate
- 1st in Think
- Placed 4th out of 16 in elimination rounds
- 3rd seed alliance captain
- Won 4 qualification matches, lost 1
- Made it to finals
- We got a lottery ticket, giving us a 12/17 chance to qualify to regionals
Qualifier 3 – Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek
Yesterday our team was notified that a spot had opened up at the Walnut Creek Qualifier that was going to be held the following day. After deliberating, we decided to go just for fun, as a last hurrah before officially going offseason. We were able to pull together a skeleton crew of 6 members.
This qualifier ended up being a major milestone for our team! Our robot performed consistently and scored well for our alliance partners–well enough to be 4th seed (4th place) in the qualification rounds. This put us in a position to select our alliance partner for the semifinals, and have a chance at getting into finals and thus qualifying for regionals.
After advancing through the semi-finals, Omega unfortunately lost the extremely close final, but nevertheless we are proud of getting this far–the farthest we’ve ever gone in Omega history.
We won the following awards:
- Finalist Alliance Captain
- Think Award
- Inspire Award, 1st Runner Up
- Control Award, 1st Runner Up
- Connect Award, 2nd Runner Up
We are so proud of our entire team for working hard to constantly improve the robot and code, specifically: Nidhir Guggilla (Captain), Justin Do (Co-Captain), Tommy Vo Tran (Programming Lead), Trinity Chen (Mechanical Lead), and our mentor, Kevin, who was very busy that day but still showed up in support. We would also like to thank our parents for supporting us in this last-minute endeavor and throughout the season. Lastly, we would like to thank our semi-finals and finals alliance partner, Team Future 14473.
Next stop: Regionals! (If we are lucky and win the lottery!)
Pictures are below.
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Qualifier 2 – Meeting Entry
Date: 1/6/19
Time: 7:00 AM-6:00 PM
Attendance: Justin, Trinity, Tommy, Rebecca, Sriteja, Jonathan
Plans/Goals
- Have Fun
- Prevent disconnects.
- Perform than the last Fremont Qualifier (seed higher than 14th, have a better qual record than 1-4, be a contender for at least one judged award)
- Stretch Goal: Make it to the semifinals
- Extreme Stretch Goal: Qualify for Regional Competitions
Qualifier 2 – Cisco Building
Today, Omega went to our second qualifier of the season, located at Cisco in San Jose and hosted by Tacobots (FTC 11099). We improved greatly from our performance in our last qualifier, having an extremely reliable latching mechanism and improving our autonomous program to consistently sample the gold mineral. Even our win-loss record improved to 2-3 (we mostly lost due to disconnections and bad luck).
Because of our hard work, we were able to take home:
- Rockwell Collins Innovate Award
- Inspire Award, 3rd Place
- Control Award, 2nd Place
Preparation for 2nd Qualifier: Meeting Entries #49-54
Meeting 49
Date: 12/29/18
Time: 1:00-6:00
Attendance: Justin, Trinity, Rebecca
Plans/Goals
- Finish cable management
- Figure out solution to hanging problem
What Was Accomplished
- Mounted electronics
- Found solution to hanging problem by moving the latch back
- A strong spring was used to tension the return cable
Notes/Additional Information
- We have ordered cables that we need to connect the phone and the robot which allows us to test our code
Reflection/Takeaways
- This is the first time we are slightly ahead of schedule! All we need to now is code.
- At first we were hesitant to rebuild, but the risk that we took paid off
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