Welcome to the Jungle!
Welcome to the official Website of Team 2016. Our members come from Ewing High School & Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf (also known as NJ School for the Deaf), both located in Ewing New Jersey.
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Vision of FIRST
“To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes.” ~Dean Kamen
Our team embraces Dean Kamen’s vision. We are very passionate that any individual, disability or not, is able to explore the worlds of science and technology thus encouraging them to become our future scientists, engineers and technologists.
Our Team Goals
- To promote Project IFADS by integrating FIRST with the Deaf Community
- To educate ourselves and our community on what FIRST is all about
- To encourage participation among people of all ages
- To make connections and friendships everywhere we go
- To do community service where help is needed
- To reach out to the public and spread the teachings of science and technology
- To help out any team that needs it whenever possible
- Spread our team values
- To teach basic sign language to our entire team
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Team Updates
Saturday - March 20, 2010
Congratulations Team 2016! Dallas Regional was an event in this season and our teams history that we will never forget. By saturday afternoon, we were ranked 2nd after competing in many mind-blowing qualification matches. 148, who was ranked 1st, picked us to be apart of their alliance. Our other choice was 1817. The three of us together were unstoppable. After the final match we couldn't believe we won. With the excitement of winning and the congratulations from other teams, we thought our Dallas trip was complete. Not only did we win, but we also recieved the most important and honorable award that FIRST robotics could present, the Chairmans award. We also got the Excellence in Engineering award. These awards are the biggest accomplishments that we have gotten in our robotics history. We are very proud and we are very excited for nationals and we wish everyone good luck.
Sunday - March 7, 2010
Trenton Regional! These past few days have been very busy and confusing, but well worth it. Friday and Saturday were full of exciting and challenging matches, but sunday was the day we really had to worry about. Our worrying paid off because we were picked by the seconds alliance team 422 and picked team 816 as our third partner in crime. In the end it was our alliance against the first ranked team 25 and their alliance. With all our hard work we came in second in the New Jersey Regional. We are very proud of ourselves because not only did we finish in second, but we also recieved the "Team Spirit" award. Next event: Texas Regional! Here we come!!
Tuesday - February 23, 2010
Today was the day we shipped our robot. Team 75 roboraiders and our 2016 family met up at Johnson and Johnson to ship our robots together. We discussed and compared our robots as well as our chairmans presentations. We talked about the problems we faced throughout this years challenge, yet over came with indurance and persistance from our team leaders and mentors. It was a fun filled day with a very informative meeting.
Monday - February 15, 2010:
Hello all! We're all gearing up for our regional and we're all making good progress! We want to remind all of you to please donate all of your used Hearing Aids and Eye Glasses! Look for our donation table at the National Bank Arena and lend us your help! See the flyer below for more information. See you there!
Friday - February 5, 2010:
We recently went to a Trenton Devils hockey game and had a great time there. First off we would like to thank everyone who stopped by at our booth to learn and support our team. Also we would like to thank FTC team 3041, Ursa Major, from East Brunswick High School for coming to the booth and promoting FTC. At the game we had a wonderful chance to use our new and improved two barrel T-shirt launcher on the ice for the first time. We had a great time and can’t wait to see you all again at our next event!
Saturday - January 9, 2010:
Today we went to Johnson & Johnson for the FIRST Robotics kick off. We were separated into our different groups to discus and create ideas for this years challenge Breakaway. Then we all got together to combine our amazing ideas into one spectacular blue print for the new 2010 robot.
Saturday - December 12, 2009:
Today we had a kick off dry run where we took 2004's competition and used it as if it were the real kick off date. We were separated into groups where we were paired together with a mentor to help us come up with an idea to accomplish the goal for that years challenge.
Saturday - November 14, 2009:
Today was Ramp Riot at the Wissahickon High School in Pennsylvania. There we took our robot from Lunacy and put it into the competition for fun. We also volunteered to help out with the "Girls in Gears" program where we teach them that it's not just boys that can work on robots. Girls can be apart of fun too. Just look at the team "Where's Waldo?" from Canada. That whole team is made up of girls. We also told them about the game and what robotics has done for us as well as other people.
Saturday - November 7, 2009:
Tonight was one of the many nights we spent at Ewing High School cheering for our home team. When the Ewing Blue Devils got a touch down, we shot a T-shirt into the stands. Kids would come by and ask us how the robot would work and how long we had our robot. They seemed really interested in what we were doing and how things worked. We were more than welcome to stop and take the time to show them how it worked and why we had this T-shirt shooting robot.
