Our team is composed of five student members and four adult mentors.  Our team members are:
• Eric - our programmer
• Jack - in charge of our robot's drive base and creates the team’s artwork
• Kira - our webmaster
• Robbie - our team captain and coach and is in charge of our robot's lift mechanism
• Timmy - our driver and is in charge of our robot's object manipulator

Our mentors are:
• Erik - professional mechanical engineer
• Irv - university teacher and software engineer
• Jamie - student at Santa Clara University majoring in mechanical engineering, team alumnus, and team cofounder
• Miles - professional software engineer 

We have been to two competitions this season playing the game "Gateway".  One of the competitions was in Walnut Creek, California and the other was in Tracy, California.

At the competition in Walnut Creek, we went undefeated in the qualifying rounds and seeded 2nd out of 29 teams.  We allied with teams 254E and 5369 and made it to the semifinals.  Our team won both the Robot Skills Challenge (with a score of 19) and the Programming Skills Challenge (with a score of 5) at the competition.  But most impressively, we won the Excellence Award, which got us an invitation to the VEX World Championships in Anaheim, California in April 2012!

At the competition in Tracy, we went undefeated in the qualifying rounds again and seeded 1st out of 40 teams.  We allied with teams 404 and 1000C and became the tournament champions!  Our team also won both the Robot Skills Challenge (with a score of 26) and the Programming Skills Challenge (with a score of 15).  And finally, we won the Excellence Award at the tournament!  With two more invitations from this tournament, we have now qualified three times to go to the VEX Robotics World Championships!

We will be attending a tournament at Bellarmine College Prepatory in January 2012.  We'll let you know how we do!