FIRST® Robotics Competition 2019 Game

In DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE, we joined two competing alliances collecting samples on Planet Primus. Unpredictable terrain and weather patterns make remote robot operation essential to their mission on the planet. With only 2:30 until liftoff, the alliances must gather as many cargo pods as possible, secure the cargo into cargo bays using hatch panels, and prepare their spaceships before the next sandstorm arrives.

Game Overview video:

Game Manual:
firstfrc.blob.core.windows.net/frc2019/Manual/2019FRCGameSeasonManual.pdf

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Our 2019 Season

In the Fall, we got right to work fundraising, learning, and reaching out to the community. In our most successful event of our team's history, we put on an amazing raffle and auction spirit night at the Dunwoody Tavern that brought in over $10,000 in funds that went towards building, traveling, and competing. 

​After fundraising, our mechanical, electrical, programming, and strategy sub teams collaborated to design, build, wire, program, test, and compete with a world-class robot in just 6 weeks. We attended the Gainesville and Dalton qualifier competitions, and then the State competition.

Because of our driver's excellent skills, our team was part of the winning alliance in the Datlon qualifier. Although we did not advance to the World competition, our team used this year as a learning year. Therefore, our team is set up to build our most advanced robot in the upcoming 2020 build season.

You can learn about last year's success here.
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Our Competitions

Gainesville Qualifier
March 1 – 3, 2019

Dalton Qualifier
March 7 – 9, 2019

State Championship
April 3 – 6, 2019
LakePoint Champions Center
Emerson, Georgia

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​Click here to see the stats for each of our competitions and videos of every match.

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Our 2019 Sponsors

Platinum	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Georgia Tech RoboJackets	GPS Hospitality	Vision Metals	Yogli Mogli
	Spiced Right Rib House	Griffith Engineering	Knapp
		One Eleven Farms	Brookhaven Family Dentistry
		Galla's Pizza	Dunwoody Tavern
		AYG Inc	Katie Bell
		Meadows Montessori School	Anderson Legal Counsel Association
		24x7 Workout	Ken Fairbanks
		Farm Burger	Carolyn Watson
		Vision Metals	Steve Brake
		The Wommack Family	Clifford E. Stacy
		The Mano Family	Jamish Caldwell
		The Wilkie Family	Zeyulen Fayngold
			Vickie Volan
			Todd Hammer
			Nick Brecker
			Dr. Orlando Cussay

We want to express our sincere gratitude to all who are supporting our team this year. We are always looking for new sponsors. If your company is interested, click here.

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The 2019 Team

Student Leadership Committee

Noah Covey - President and Programming Lead	Chloe Lowe - Pit Lead
Reid Spencer - Engineering Lead	Thomas Wommack - Electrical Lead
Leighton Chen - Business VP	Jacob Dane - Driver
Stephen Alayli - Strategy Lead	​Sam Volan - Business Lead

Team

Ethan Anderson - Electrical
Aditya Barot - Mechanical and Media
Rueben Covey - Mechanical
Scott Edler - Electrical
Evan Garber - Programming
Spencer Hopkins - Programming
Ian Hopkins - Programming
Seung Lee - Mechanical/Spirit Lead
Sabrina Leong - Mechanical
Sarah Liu - Mechanical
Raj Mano - Mechanical
Elijah Nicpon - Media Lead
Sam Phillips - Programming
Brennan Speaks - Mechanical
Jonathan Stewart - CAD/Mechanical
Sam Wassell - Mechanical
Adam Wilkie - Mechanical
Dylan Woolsey - Electrical/Finance
Sophie Zhang - Marketing Lead
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The Georgia Tech RoboJackets

WildCat 5e was mentored again in the 2019 season by the Georgia Tech RoboJackets.
​They were  . . .

Jacob Allen	Michael Benben	Kristaps Berzinch
Dallas Downing​	Matthew Ellett	Tristan Gaskins
Soohyun Kim	Jessie Liu	Varun Madabushi
James O'Connor	Suhani Patel	Kyla Qi
Alexis Skidmore	Sarah Storer	Myles Sun
Joshua Viszlai	​	​

Coaches and Mentors

Dough McMahon ​Head Coach	Rose Thomas Coach, ​Teacher Sponsor
Monique Lowe Fundraising Mentor	Diane Grant Assistant Coach
Paul Spencer Programming Mentor	Angela Womack Fundraising Mentor