OHS 'Oly Cow Robotics

01/18/2016

theRefs #8548 wins the interleague championship Inspire Award to move onto the Washington State FTC Championship!! Good job to everyone who made this feat possible!! ALSO, the robotics class team at OHS "Care Bears" took a promising 2nd place alliance captain to move onto state as well! GOOD job to everyone!

08/20/2015

Many people have asked to look at our engineering notebooks in the past. Here is a link to a PDF slideshow of our main engineering notebook from the 2014-2015 season. Stay tuned for PDF versions of our business notebook and meeting logbook.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byuu3cMz2c7ERkQwclE5dXBUemM/view?usp=sharing

08/19/2015

It is sometimes difficult to quantify the amount of time we spent on robotics. To give you a rough idea, our main Facebook group chat (the longest of roughly eight chats that we've used for robotics-related brainstorming) recently surpassed 100,000 messages. If you printed out the entire chat onto a sheet of paper, you would have a lot of explaining to do to your parents.

07/03/2015

Curious about where our team members are headed next year, or what the future of robotics at Olympia High School looks like? Read our latest (and last) blog post!

https://olycow.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/the-end-of-team-oly-cow/

Yes, it's true. April not only marked the end the 2014-2015 season, but also the last month of robotics for team 6424. All nine team members graduated from Olympia High School on June 12 and will n...

06/24/2015

Start making the popcorn. As of today you can watch our feature-length documentary in its entirety for free on our YouTube channel.

Wondering how we get our ideas, put them together, and have no life, then check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FilPYyxQOWM

A feature length documentary assembled by our team about the cascade effect season. Apologies to team 4625 for shooting some of their team members. ---------...

06/14/2015

Thank you to all of our teachers, sponsors, partners, opponents, judges, referees, families, and fans for three great years of FTC and four great years of high school. Because our entire team graduated on Friday, 'Oly Cow is no longer, but stay tuned for the release of a feature-length film we made about our final season. It will be out in a week.

Not pictured: Levi Bisonn, Riana Hoagland, Addie Elwood

03/28/2015

Day one of Superregionals is complete! Qualification matches start tomorrow morning; check out the live stream if you get the chance! We're in matches 2, 12, 19, 30, 41, 46, 57, 71, 79
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/997722/events/3909510/player?width=560&height=315&autoPlay=true&mute=false

And with that, here is a video of what our mentor, the one and only Mr. Steinkamp, has been up to in the hotel recently

03/26/2015

On our way to Oakland. The competition starts tomorrow!

03/26/2015

The West Super Regional Championship is this weekend and tomorrow 'Oly Cow will head to Oakland, California to compete with the best teams from the west coast for a spot at the World Championship.

Check out this video of the robot and stay tuned for updates from the competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcZ569DGMH8

A little video we made just before the west super regional. ------------------------- The 'Oly Cow: Outstanding in our field.

03/12/2015

Sensory Overload: coming soon to a robot near you! Ignore the overall sketchiness of the wiring.

02/27/2015

Seeing as it's Thursday and we're looking for ways to procrastinate from doing homework, here's a throwback to the first match we ever played!

02/19/2015

Stay tuned.... change is coming.