2009 XQ-Robotix - Team 1450
The XQ-Robotix Team Vision is to :
1) Ignite the untapped talent that lies within every student
2) Provide students with hands on experience in various fields of engineering
3) Facilitate an environment where students will build lifelong relationships with students and mentors.
On The Ben Franklin Educational Campus, the FIRST Robotics Program is helping groom the future innovators, CEO's, and leaders of our great country. We know that success is about more than winning. Success embraces sportsmanship, team spirit, and the appreciation of diversity. Our mentors are not only helping us to build a robot but also academically by allowing us [students] realize that education can be enjoyable.
We invite you to explore our Website to learn more about our Team and the FIRST Robotics Program
About This Year's Game: 
LUNACY is played on a 54' x 27' low
friction field. Robots are equipped with
slippery wheels and payload trailers.
LUNACY game pieces are “Orbit Balls”
designated as Moon Rocks, Empty Cells,
or Super Cells. Two three-team robot
alliances collect and score Orbit Balls in
trailers attached to the opposing teams’
robots. Human players are positioned
around the perimeter of the arena and
can score from their stations.
Robots are autonomous during the
first 15 seconds of play, and teleoperated
for the remaining 2 minutes. Trailers begin
each match empty, and robots may be
loaded with up to 7 Moon Rocks by their
team prior to the start of the match.
Human players are equipped with 20
Moon Rocks, less the number they load
into their robot, and a quantity of Empty
Cells and Super Cells determined by the
outcome of their previous match. If a
team has not yet played a match, the
human player receives 4 Empty Cells
and 2 Super Cells.
Moon Rocks and Empty Cells scored
in an opponent’s trailer, at any time and by
any player, are worth 2 points. Super Cells
scored in an opponent’s trailer are worth
15 points. Super Cells must be “activated”
before they can be played. Activation
occurs when a robot delivers an Empty
Cell from their Outpost to their Fueling
Station. Empty Cells can be delivered
throughout the match. Super Cells may
only be played during the last 20 seconds
of a match.
About FIRST :
FIRST 's Vision is to make a positive impact on the lives of youth, their schools, and communities by transforming society to appreciate science and technology as much as sports and entertainment. The FIRST Robotics Competition partners professionals with young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. The opportunities that FIRST provides for its participants are both life-changing and career-molding. “FIRST competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events, the result of lots of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines, and deadlines”.
FIRST teams come from Brazil , Canada , Ecuador , Israel , Mexico , the U.K. , and almost every U.S. state. The combination of volunteers, mentors, professional engineers, teachers, and other adults working with students across the country is the unstoppable key to FIRST's unrelenting success.
The Vision of FIRST doesn't stop after students matriculate to graduate level studies. Thanks to colleges, universities, corporations, businesses, and individuals across the nation participants have access to a plethora of scholarships.
FIRST shows students that technological fields hold many opportunities and that the basic concepts of science, math, engineering, and invention are not just for scientist but for the future Einstein's, just like them!
