VRC Build Season
VRC ‘23-’24 Season - Over Under
Build Season
This season, we have one VEX team, 599Z, with the game strategy being able to pick up and score triballs, then elevate the robot at the end of the game. This season, they built three different iterations, with the last one having a heavy focus on descoring with a good intake to grab triballs easily.
Competition Season
This year’s game had robot score acorn-shaped triballs into a goal by pushing them under. Then, at the end of the game, elevate the robot on a vertical or horizontal pole. This season, our team went to many tournaments, and at our own home Competition, Rumble in the Jungle won the Excellence Award.
VRC ‘22-’23 Season - Spin Up
Build Season
Both of our VEX teams put in countless hours and stayed after school day after day to complete their robots. They had to design their robots to pick up disks that could be shot into elevated goals, then at the end of the match expand their robot to cover as many tiles as possible.
Competition Season
In this season’s game, the Spin-Off, robots pick up up to three disks at a time and then shoot them into the goal. Then, in the last 15 seconds, expand their robot in any way to score extra points per tile. Both of our VEX teams, 599A and 599B, put their best foot forward and competed in the VEX OCSA Tournament and the VEX Downey competition.
VRC ‘21-’22 Season - Tipping Point
Build Season
This season’s build season was packed. Especially coming back from a year online, there was a lot of catching up to do. VEX members stayed late after school hours and came in during breaks to finish the robot. The VEX teams spent most of their time testing, fixing, and retesting.
Competition Season
The Tipping Point game season required robots to score discs in goals, own rollers, and cover field tiles. In the VEX La Verne competition both teams, 599V and 599W made it to the quarterfinals! 599V’s effective and efficient design process, won them the Judge’s award.
VRC ‘18-’19 Season - Turning Point
Build Season
In order to complete the tasks of this competition season, 599C made a unique double reverse four bar geared for torque on their robot designed to flip and place caps. 599A spent time perfecting the programming for their shooter and manipulator. 599B decided to have a six wheel drivetrain, four omnis in the back and 2 tractions in the front for caps and balls.
Competition Season
The Turning Point game required robots to flip caps, shoot balls, and move flags to different heights. 599B and 599C competed in VEX Magnolia where 599B made it to the semifinals in an alliance with 7259D and 599C won Tournament Champion, Excellence Award, and Robot Skills Champion! 599B also competed in the Compton Robotics Challenge where they reached qualifications with team 98735 D. 599A and B competed in the Reseda Competition winning Sportsmanship for 599B and Excellence for 599A.
VRC ‘17-’18 Season - In The Zone
Build Season
Throughout the build season 599A, 599B, and 599C spent lots of time and effort to come up with a design that would allow them to move and pick up cones. Then after coming up with a design they had to physically build the robot design they had in mind and bring it to life through programming.
Competition Season
The main objective of this season’s game is to get robots to move and pick up cones. 599A and B competed in a competition at Viewpoint School where 599A made it to qualifications round and 599B (allied with Team 1437V and Team 1437Z) was announced champion. 599A and 599C competed at Long Beach where 599C won a Design Award and 599A was a tournament champion.
VRC ‘16-’17 Season - Starstruck
Build Season
For this season one of the main focuses for our VEX team was designing a mechanism to allow the robot to hang onto the hangbar. Each VEX team came up with their own ideas on how to do so and came up with unique functioning designs. Using ideas from past VEX robots for inspiration, they also came up with designs to be able to pick up stars and cubes which were some of the main components that would be on the competition field.
Competition Season
This season's game required robots to score stars and cubes into zones and hang robots on a hanging bar. Our VEX teams competed at Long Beach, Reseda, Granada, and Viewpoint. 599B competed in the Reseda competition and performed well making it to the quarter finals. In another VEX robotics Competition on February 6 at Clayton Valley Charter High School in Concord we made it into the semi-final round.
VEX ‘15-’16 Season - Nothing But Net
Build season
Our VEX members were hard at work this season coming up with a design to score balls efficiently and stay within the design limitations. Hours were spent perfecting the design and assembling the robot as well as programming the autonomous code. Once the robot was finalized, it was time for testing!
Competition Season
The main objective of this competition was to score balls into nets. Our VEX teams competed at Granada’s Rumble in the Jungle and won Tournament Finalist and Tournament Champion awards. We also won the Build Award, Community Award, Cooperate Award, Energy Award, Innovate Award, and Think Award.
VEX ‘14-’15 Season - Skyrise
Build season
A lot of strategic thinking and planning went into this build season. After VEX kickoffs our members were faced with a brand new game objective that required a whole new design. They spent lots of time and effort to finish their robots and begin testing.
Competition season
This game’s objective was to score colored cubes in floor goals and posts and stack them on top of each other. 599D, A, and B competed at Viewpoint where 599D made it all the way to the semifinals. From this competition we also won the VEX Robotics Excellence Award. 599A and 599B competed at Crespi Carmelite High School where 599A made it to the quarterfinals and 599B made it to the semifinals.