Coral Academy of Science - Robotics Club -

The Coral Academy Robotics team was started in 2003 by a group of students who wanted to participate in FIRST robotics competitions.

In 2003, our team members visited Silicon Valley and Arizona Regional Finals to meet the other team members and exchange ideas for future competitions in 2003. After getting inspired by the event, with the help of school’s science teacher, Mr. Acar, the team members started to form a team to participate in next year’s competition. In 2004, the team got partnership through University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada NASA Space Consortium and some private organizations and corporate in 2004. Our team successfully participated in Silicon Valley Regional in 2004. This season our team has a partnership with NASA, Coral Academy of Science and some corporate sponsors.

In keeping with this vision, our team will have no boundaries - cultural, geographic, ethnic or otherwise. Our team is made up of exceptionally bright high school students from across the Washoe County.

The singular and all-important goal of Coral Robotics: Robotics Education. With an ever-growing need for such skills in the workplace, the Coral Robotics program will become increasingly indispensable. The guiding principals of Coral Robotics are simple, but yet have proved to be so important:

Provide a professionally guided technical experience
Reach as many young people as possible with this vision
Provide invaluable real-world experience
Bring adults into the world of robotics
Bind the community and participants with a sense of civic pride
Bring local corporations together and integrate into community
Make the program available to all
Bring the vision of Dean Kamen and FIRST into Coral Robotics

Our team is student driven. This means the students are actively involved in every aspect of design and building. While we rely heavily on guidance from our corporate engineers, we believe that students learn by doing. FIRST is about a hands-on engineering experience. It is an opportunity for students to work with professionals in a real world setting. Our goal is to create a robot the students know inside and out, built from the collective efforts of each member of the team - students, corporate engineers and technicians. Accordingly, we are looking for corporate sponsors to guide and mentor us through the design and building process, and to work along side us at the competitions. In short, we are looking for a true corporate partner.

To finish among the top 8 finalists in all FIRST Regional Competitions in which we participate;
To finish among the top 16 finalists at the 2004 FIRST National Competition;
To win the 2005 Website Excellence, Best Website, AutoCAD Visualization and Invention Awards;
To win one the Judge’s Awards at the FIRST National Competition; and
To organize a FIRST LEGO League Local Competition in Reno, Nevada.

... 2005 Official Sponsors

.. 2004 Website

www.coralacademy.org/robotics/robotics2004