The 2015 Season

The 2015 season was a great year for the AdamBots. The game for 2015 was Recycle Rush. The game consisted of stacking totes and recycle bins in order to increase the team’s average in order to advance throughout competition. The AdamBots’ solution was Anastasia, a robot with internal and external mechanisms designed to stack totes and pick up recycling bins.

Howell District Regional Event

We got off to a rocky start with 6 losses and 3 wins in the qualification rounds. but after making an alliance with Team 3357, the Comets, and Team 3668, the Trobots, we were able to make it to the semi-finals! The CyberCats were picked by the number two seeded team – Team 4004, the M.A.R.S. Rovers. The AdamBots won the Imagery Award while the CyberCats won the Rookie All-Star Award!

Traverse City District Event

This was our most successful competition of the season, and the place where our robot got a chance to shine! We stayed as the number one seed throughout most of the competition and never dropped below third place.  We were the 1st alliance captain, which allowed us to be first to invite team 1711, The Raptors, to our alliance. We were joined by team 5692, the Chief-bots, a rookie team. The three of us worked together like clockwork to stack our way to district Champions. along with being the event champions, the Adambots also won the chairman’s award, which is considered to be the most prestigious award that FIRST offers. Because of the points gained from the Chairman’s award and winning the finals, we qualified for the state championship, where we would compete against the best robots in the state of Michigan!

Michigan State Championship

This year, the FIRST Michigan state championship was held in Grand Rapids. Because of our earlier accomplishments, we were the first pick of the captain of the 16th alliance- the Petoskey Paladins! We made it to the eighth-finals and our overall score was high enough to earn us a ticket to the world championship in St. Louis. During the competition, our pits and drive team were able to meet  FIRST founder Dean Kamen and Michigan governor Rick Snyder!

 World Championship in St. Louis

The Adambots traveled to St. Louis for the 2015 First World Championships. During one of the qualification matches, the AdamBots scored their highest match of the season with a score of 262! In alliance selections, the AdamBots were picked as the fourth robot by the 7th alliance. The AdamBots had lots of fun playing with teams 365, MOE, 494, the Martians, and 1477, Texas Torque! Unfortunately, our scores were not high enough to advance to the semifinals.

Brief Recap

Howell District Regional

• Imagery Award
• Semi Finalists

Traverse City District

• Chairman’s Award
• Champions

Michigan State Championship

• Met Governor Rick Snyder and FIRST founder Dean Kamen!
• Eighth-Finalists

St. Louis World Championship

• Quarter-Finalists