Team 116

03/07/2016

We won the Districti Chairmans Award at the Northern Virginia Distrcit Competition! Woohoo!!! And it qualifies us to move on to the District Championship next month! More woohoo!!!

Now to come up with the entry fee... Not so much woohoo.

March 2016

02/22/2016

So for the past several years Team 116 has been refining our removable modular control system design. Behold the system for ED v17.0. As with past practice, the system contains all the control computing, communications, and power distribution for the competition robot. The entire assembly can be pulled from the robot and be on the workbench for maintenance in under 30 seconds. Re-assembly and re-installation admittedly takes slightly longer (and is best managed as a two-person job). It clocks in at 7"x8"x9" and 13 pounds.

After several years of experimenting with methods for reducing the volume of the control system, this is possibly our penultimate design. Penultimate in that, based upon the current trends, we have one more iteration to go before the density of the control system box approaches that of a small neutron star and it gains the potential to become a singularity. Then, whether or not it fits in the robot will be the least of our worries.

February 2016

05/31/2015

Come visit us at the Herndon festival! Our booth is by the intersection of Station street and Lynn street

04/02/2015

Team 116 competed at the Patriot's Center last weekend and came out regional finalists! Details at http://team116.org/2015/04/dc-regional-recap-regional-finalists/

Competitions, News, Team DC Regional Recap — Regional Finalists! April 2, 2015 Sam For those who haven’t heard yet, this past weekend Epsilon Delta competed at the Greater DC Regional where we competed with 47 other FRC teams from all over (even as far as Brazil) and became regional finalists. The c…

03/29/2015

The highest scoring match from the 2015 DC Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. We were partnered with Teams 1418 and 3419 for this match, and we were able to pile up the points.

Alliance members: 1418 - 2nd place team (At time of game) 3419 - 1st place team (At time of game) 116 - 6th place team (At time of game)

03/29/2015

Many years ago, Gen. Chuck Yeager taught me a lesson about human-machine systems : “an excellent pilot in a mediocre airplane will shoot down a mediocre pilot in a fantastic airplane every single time.” The machine can’t compensate for a lack of training. But a well-trained crew can find a way to do fantastic things with a piece of crap. That is a lesson these students exemplified.

At the DC Regional FIRST Robootics Competition this weekend, Team 116 (Herndon High School and NASA Headquarters) took an admittedly middle-of-the-pack machine and practiced and trained their butts off to find ways to squeeze every possible ounce of performance out of it. As a result, they walked away with the highest scoring match of the competition and Competiton Finalist, not to mention the Gracious Professionalism Award. So very proud of these students and the work they put in.

DC Regional FIRST Robotics Competition
Fairfax, VA
March 2015

03/21/2015

WOOOHOOOOOO!!!! Our FTC team just rocked the East Coast Super Regional in Scranton PA! They are now headed for the World Championship is St Louis!!!

03/17/2015

Epsilon Delta had a great time in Florida! Take a look at what we did this past weekend:

Competitions, Team Orlando Regional Recap March 16, 2015 Sam This past weekend Epsilon Delta competed at the FRC Orlando Regional hosted at the University of Central Florida, and although the over 26 hours of bus riding was a bit tiresome it was all worth it for such a memorable trip. We woke up ear…

03/17/2015

Team 116 is in the news! Check out our robot in this clip:

Cheerleaders, bright lights and a Jumbotron helped set the stage as some of the world's most talented high schoolers visited Orlando for a robotics competition Saturday.

03/06/2015

Pit map for the Orlando regional competition has been released!

Teams Registered Team # Location 21 * Titusville, FL 79* Tarpon Springs , FL 86 Jacksonville, FL 103 …...

03/01/2015

Congrats to FTC Team 519 - Va State Champions!! Our alliance scored 645 points, the highest score in the state!

02/11/2015

The USA competition is underway! Check out the awesome promo video made by our award sponsors, AutomationDirect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVI01nBb3Nc