About the Team

 

 

In our 7th year of operation, Team 1432 is Portland, Oregon's oldest team.

We have about 25 members from Franklin High School, Cleveland High School,  and Central Catholic High School ranging from freshmen to seniors. We are open for membership by any student between the ages of 14 - 18 years of age or 9th through 12th grades. We teach new team members the skills they need to help design, build, and program  a robot, and we refine the leadership, project management, and communications skills of technically skilled members.  

 

Last year Team 1432 helped Cleveland, and Benson  start teams. We will be helping Tillamook High School restart their team next year.

It takes all kinds to build a robot. We need team Many colleges and universities, professional associations, and corporations offer college scholarships to high school students onFIRST teams. This is official recognition of the knowledge and technical and life skills these students have gained from participating in aFIRST competition. FIRST scholarships enable students to pursue majors and careers in engineering, computer science, science, math, design, aeronautics, and many other fields. In 2010, theFIRST Scholarship Program provides: $12.2 million in college scholarships Over 746 individual scholarship opportunities Over 136 Scholarship Providers members interested in the following fields:

 

 

Not interested in anything on that list? Join anyway! There's something for everybody to do.

As this is the Off season we are currently meeting Mondays and Thursdays from 3:30 - 5PM in the old Auto Shop and auto shop class room at Franklin High School. Visit team1432.org/calendar/ for the full meeting schedule. Even if you don't have past experience with robotics, you can help!

 

Guarding the goal Oregon Regional 2010

First Robotics Competition

In 1989, inventor Dean Kamen (best known for the Segway Personal Transporter and the HomeChoice portable dialysis system) created For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), an organization seeking “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.”

Since then, FIRST has established four main programs: Junior FIRST Lego Leage (jFLL) for elementary school students, FIRST Lego League (FLL) for middle school students, and the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) for high school students, intended as Junior Varsity and Varsity events, respectively. The FIRST Robotics Competition started off with less than 50 teams in a high school gymnasium. Today, the FIRST Robotics Competition includes over 1500 teams with over 42,000 students. There are 40 regional competitions anda national championship held every year in new Hampshire. Over 9.5 million dollars in scholarships are available to students participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition.

FIRST programs have proven effects — a study by Brandeis University found that FIRST participants were significantly more likely to attend college, over twice as likely to major in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field, and over 10 times more likely to find an internship during high school.

2010 FIRST Scholarship Opportunities

 

Many colleges and universities, professional associations, and corporations offer college scholarships to high school students on FIRST teams. This is official recognition of the knowledge and technical and life skills these students have gained from participating in a FIRST competition. FIRST scholarships enable students to pursue majors and careers in engineering, computer science, science, math, design, aeronautics, and many other fields. In 2010, the FIRST Scholarship Program provides:

For more information go to:

First scholarships

 

Competition 2010 

Guarding the goal Oregon Regional 2010
Guarding the goal Oregon Regional 2010

The 2010  Oregon Autodesk Regional Competition is over! We found out we were in the first round of competition  when we arrived Friday. Our alliance lost but for a short time we were the number two team. Competition is all about learning what happens in the real world to the robot you've designed and built. We discovered that long axles cause way to much torque. We broke an axle. Its been a very growing experience, but very exciting as well.At the post competition party that was held at the  house of one of our mentors, Russel Silva the team was in high spirits and looking forward to next year.  Our freshmen are already making plans on how they can improve the program for next year. We will be recruiting next year's team starting in April.