Salt Lake City Maker Faire

Our team was invited to participate in Salt Lake City Maker Faire by the Leonardo Museum. This was another fun opportunity for our team to be out in the public and teach people about what we do.  We had a lot of fun speaking to members of the community and helping them run the robot!

We had also had a table out with Legos on it for smaller kids to play and learn more about engineering basics.

The Maker Faire was a lot of fun!

Lessonde Studios

Our team was invited to attend the ground breaking ceremony of the Lessonde Studios at the University of Utah. This was a fun experience for our team members.

We had a couple of issues with the internet when we first got there. Thankfully we have excellent and dedicated coaches that were able to help us get going!

We had the opportunity to speak to new crews, engineering students, and others that are willing to help with STEM related education.

Our team also had the opportunity to listen to a few influential people in the state of Utah, including the president of the University of Utah.

We always have fun showing off the robot. It is fun to get out in the community and talk to people about what we have learned and inspire them to be more interested in FRC. We love our team and we have fun!

 Thanks to those team members and mentors that were able to come to this ground breaking! 

Team Skills Meeting

First, we have the best coaches and mentors out there! We are grateful they are willing to spend their time (even during off season) to train us!

 Today we had a team skills meeting. We worked on several different things!  We learned some basics of engineering.

 We spent time working on the web site and we are excited to launch it soon!

We really enjoyed learning about some of the tools and experimenting with them.

Thank you coaches and team members for all of your support and willingness to make 2015 our best year yet!

Comic Con Salt Lake City 2014

PrototypeX was invited to help with the FIRST robotics competitions at ComicCon. This was a great experience for team members. Our team helped set up the field and take down the field when the games were over.

We were able to talk to MANY people from the community about the importance of FIRST and STEM related activities for the youth in our community. We had a lot of fun running the robot again!

Here are a few comments from some team members:
Corrine: I went to Comic Con Sept. 4th. I got to drive the robot for the first time, and I got to be a human player, which I really liked. It was cool to drive on the real field. I think one of my favorite parts was to talk to people about FIRST and see them be interested in our robot. Because I'm a new team member this was my first time going to an event like this. I'm glad I got to go!

Jakob: I enjoyed the opportunity to drive the robot again; it renewed the wonderful memories I made at the Salt Lake Regional and the World Festival last year. I was glad that PrototypeX and FIRST were able to hold a booth at the Comic Con and that there were many people who watched our matches. I am glad I had the opportunity to introduce people to FIRST and get them excited about STEM.

Adam: I enjoyed going to Comic Con because it was the first event I got to attend as an intern on the team PrototypeX. It was a great chance for me to get to drive the robot and do all the other jobs. I am really excited for competition this year!

We want to thank all of our team members, mentors, coaches, and parents for making Comic Con a great success for our team and for FIRST in Utah!

A Game Of Assists

FRC World Championships!!

We made it to St. Louis MO!!  All of the team and most of the families traveled to St. Louis for the world competition. We played on the Currie Division field. It was so much fun to be with the other teams at worlds.

Our team worked hard to keep the robot in working condition. We tried out some new bumpers and that helped things a lot. It was much easier to use the slip covers this time!

We have the best fans in the entire world! We may have the smallest team, but we have the loudest cheering section!

We went up against the team that won the ENTIRE THING in our very first round. We didn't go as far as we had wanted to, but it was a great experience for the team.  We learned a lot for next year.

 Watch out world, we are comin' back!!

Salt Lake Regionals 2014

March 13-15, 2014 were the Salt Lake City Regional FRC competitions. The competition was held at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah.

 For most of the team, it was their first time to see the robot for PrototypeX in competition! It was so exciting!! We had a fun weekend. The pit crew did a great job keeping the robot in working condition.  They also greeted lots of visitors interested in our awesome robot.

The team spent a lot of time moving the robot on and off the field.  They spent WAY more time than they wanted changing bumpers depending on if they were with the red alliance or the blue alliance.

 Here is a pregame strategy session.  Things were moving so fast between matches! There was not a lot of time to change bumpers and talk strategy with other teams.

 Ready to play?! Our robot was awesome! It got its points during the autonomous period most of the the time. He is a pretty consistent robot!

SCORE!!!

 During one of their last matches, the playing was pretty rough. Our poor little robot got beat up pretty bad. It threw a track. Keith (coach) had told his team captain to let the judges know that we would not be able to compete any more. Just as the team captain was headed off, one of the boys said "stop!"  All the pit crew followed with a few tools a lot of determination to get their robot back on the field.  A team on the opposition gave us their time out so we would have time to make needed repairs. Without our track, the robot couldn't move and we were dead. GAME OVER.  Another team came to Keith (someone we beat) and said they had a guy that was a "track expert" and he fixed our robot in no time at all.  Yea for awesome people doing amazing things!  We continued on! Our goal was to take first place and  head to worlds competition. PrototypeX came in 2nd. Everyone's hopes were dashed. We had so many sad and disappointed faces in the crowd.  We expected to go to St. Louis, MO to compete in worlds. Wait... what?!  They announced that PrototypeX had won the Engineering Inspiration award!!  We were going to St Louis!!  It took a few moments for the whispers to spread throughout the team. As each person got the word that we were really going there were cheers rippling throughout our section of the stadium! St Louis, HERE WE COME!!! Here is Team PrototypeX Recieving the Engineering Inspiration Award at the Salt Lake City Regionals 2014.

 Congratulations team! You all did such a great job!  Thank you to the coaches and mentors! We could not have done it with out all of your time and late nights!