St. Mark's Robotics Team
Welcome to the St. Mark's School of Texas Robotics website. Robotics offers a unique opportunity for student to apply normally hypothetical subjects to concrete fields, mixing engineering, physics, probability, and computer science to construct a robot worthy of a daunting challenge presented each year.
The St. Mark’s Robotics Team is competing yet again in the BEST Robotics Competition, which involves building robots to complete a set of tasks in situations that differ each year. For the 2010 competition, the robots are assigned the task of collecting Gizmos and Gadgets, simulating a production line in a trinket company.
The program was founded in 1993, and St. Mark’s participated in FIRST from 1994 to 2001. Additionally, we began participating in Botball, an autonomous robot-building competition, in 2003.
Team members rely on extensive after-school and free period work to accomplish their goals, often making robotics into a very large extracurricular activity. This dedication sets robotics apart as one of the leading voluntary clubs at our school in terms of the number of students who attend it and the time commitment required. However, the joy of companionship, the expanding of intellectual and creative horizons, the fever of competition, and the satisfaction of victory are what make it worthwhile to be part of the robotics team.
About the St. Mark's Robotics Team
team awards
- 3rd Place Dallas BEST 2009
- 1st Place Dallas BEST Game 2009
- 2nd Place Founders Award Texas BEST 2008
- 2nd Place Dallas BEST 2008
- Most Elegant Dallas BEST 2008
- Best Notebook Dallas BEST 2008
- Best Website Dallas BEST 2008
- 3rd Place Dallas BEST 2007
- 3rd Place Dallas BEST 2006
- Dallas BEST Award 2006
- Represented Dallas BEST at Texas BEST since 2003
- 4th Place Texas BotBall 2006
- 2005 Texas Botball State Champions
- Most Elegant Award at Dallas BEST Hub 2004
related links
St. Mark's School of Texas Website
Headmaster Arnold Holtberg
Science Department Chair Stephanie Barta
Mentors Webb Horn and Andrew Kovacs
Coaches
Head Coach Doug Rummel
Assistant Coch Fletch Carron
The St. Mark's Robotics Team was started in 1993 under Richard Abbondanzio. In 1994, the team won Rookie of the Year for the FIRST competition. The Lions teamed up with various partners over the years for the FIRST contests: University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, and Lennox Industries, while attending the National Championships through 2000. In 2001, the Lions started participating in the local BEST contest sponsored by Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Boeing, and Accenture. Doug Rummel has been the lead robotics coach since joining St. Mark's in 1998. Fletch Carron has been assistant robotics coach since 2000, but took a leave of absence to coach with Hockaday for 3 years in 2001. He has been back with us since 2004.
Team Members:
Max Weisbrod - Team President
Seniors:
Max Weisbrod
Ndungu Muturi
Peyton Randolph
Will Johnson
Juniors:
Blake McCartin
Cole Wright
Spencer Williams
Sophomores:
Adam Rawot
Arjomaan Mozumder
Brian Vodicka
Cameron Mendoza
Michael Gilliland
Milan Savani
Noah Goetz
Shivum Agrawal
Travis Garza
Zach Alden
Zach Burdette
Freshmen:
Ali Ahmed
Chase Squires
Dylan Altschuler
Lance Bock
Vivek Kupparajan
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