The Team

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Who Are We?

The Aragon Robotics Team is a student-run, student-built, and student-based robotics team centered at Aragon High School in San Mateo, CA. We usually meet every Tuesdays and Thursdays after school until around 5:00 pm, and occasionally on the first Wednesday of every month. Our current members and mentors are listed below. Alumni are soon to be listed.

History

The Aragon Robotics Team started in year 2000-2001 when a group of students came together and decided to create the team. It as started with only several members and now it has grown to around 25 members.

Now with more experienced members, ART members are able to pass down their knowledge during their stay at robotics to the newer members. While the veterans teaches the new members their skills, the new members continually surprises the veterans with their enthusiasm and fresh ideas.

Mission Statement

Aragon Robotics Team (ART) is an organization that brings together students, teachers, parents, and private contributors to encourage intelligent, innovative, and collaborative activities in young people as Aragon's students. ART is truly a team in which our members work together, which is especially evident in our culminating project: constructing a robot able to complete certain tasks in the annual U.S. FIRST (stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology") Robotics Competition and W.R.R.F. California Robot Games.

Though projects are developed and built entirely by the students, ART welcomes professionals and mentors to help teach and cultivate pertinent skills, not only those applied technically in the field, but also skills in management and team dynamics.

Awards and Distinctions

  • 2001
  • 2007 FRC Silicon Valley Regional: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award
  • 2007 FRC Silicon Valley Regional: Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award

Current Members

Members:

  • Wilson Chan
  • Kelvin Chen
  • Lara Cheng
  • Nelson Cheung
  • Keith Chin
  • Jeff Chow
  • Brian Duddy
  • Victor Hung
  • Parsia Keynejad
  • Kasper Kuo
  • Cynthia Lee
  • Benjamin Li
  • Kristina McOmber
  • Matt Ngai
  • Andrea Schwartz
  • Mark Sherwood
  • Max Shulaker
  • Kevin Thich
  • Andrew Tong
  • Heather Yee
  • Kevin Yip
Faculty Advisers:
  • Bill Faustine
  • Katie Ward
Mentors/Parents/Alumni:
  • Victor Cheng
  • Geary Chew
  • David Leibs
  • Lydia Leibs
  • Dirk De Mol
  • Peter Yim
  • Arnaud Dazin
  • Bernice Yau

 

What Is FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition?

"FIRST is a multinational non-profit organization, that aspires to transform culture, making science, math, engineering, and technology as cool for kids as sports are today." —excerpted from FIRST
The FIRST Robotics Competition is a multinational robotics event in which teams, consisting of high school students and their mentors and advisors, tackle challenges designed by the FIRST community, in form of different team competitions, each year. Six weeks are given between the unveiling of the game and shipping date to design, program, and build a radio-controlled robot capable of scoring in that year’s game, whether it be hanging on a nine-foot high bar, pushing and stacking boxes, or transporting and launching balls. FIRST Website »

Accomplishments

2002 FIRST Highest Rookie Seed Award 2002 WRRF Rookie Award for Excellence 2004 FIRST Imagery Award 2006 WRRF Cal Games - Finalist

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