2006 - End of an EraIn 2006, Charger Robotics made a huge push to do it all. We made advances on all fronts in an effort to win Chairman's. Unfortunately, Chairman's did not come our way. We did, however, win the St. Louis Regional with Team 71 and Team 547. After the St. Louis Regional, we attended the FIRST ever Wisconsin Regional. Our alliance was not able to do as good as at St. Louis, but we still won the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award. During nationals, the team continued to do well in our matches, using our advanced scouting program to prove oursleves as an alliance leader. Sadly, we were disqualified in our final qualifying match for entering too far into the side goal. We were not selected for the elimination rounds and returned home dissapointed.2006 was the last year our Team Co-Lead John Budish helped with the team. He accepted a job at Franklin High School and left our team in the unproven hands of Lori Hinytz. Click here to view pictures of our team from this year Game - Aim HighThe 2006 game Aim High was the first game in awhile that scoring took place during the match. The objective of Aim High was to score poof balls in one of 3 goals on the opponent's end of the field. After the 15 second autonomous period, each alliance had one offensive and one defensive period before the final all out period. The game was fast pace with some teams scoring above 100 points in a round. The Aim High game animation can be viewed at the 2006 NASA kickoff webpage: http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2006_kickoff.php Robot - ScreechOur 2006 robot was unofficially named Screech because of the awful noise the collector made while operating. Screech featured a moderate traction drivetrain, a collector to pick balls up off the floor, and a shooter to shoot balls into the top goal (worth 3 points).  The robot functioned almost flawlessly in competition. The chain on the drivetrain had a small tendancy to come off during the match, but this problem was fixed after St. Louis. Between the St. Louis and Milwaukee Regionals we changed our shooter to use 2 motors instead of one. During nationals our driver's began to really use our robot's advantages to come out ahead in more than half of our matches. Mentors and Volunteers
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