Science and Engineering Council

Octobots: The New First Robotics team at Dos Pueblos High School

September 11 2024
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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Octobots Robotics (Team 9084) will demonstrate their 2024 robot–nicknamed “OCTAVE”–and explain how they designed and built it to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). Get an up-close view of the robot and learn how they solved design challenges. This team is based at Dos Pueblos High School, but is not part of the Engineering Academy. Students on the team gain valuable engineering experience through hands-on tasks performed with mentors and student leaders choosing their focus on the team, from CAD, code, wiring, assembling, business, management, and more to help the team’s success.

Speakers: Students on the Octobots team

In their first year (2022-2023), the Octobots won the Rookie All-Star Award and the Innovations in Controls Award and made it all the way to the World Championship Competition in Houston, where they won the Highest Seed Rookie Award in their division. Last school year, they competed in three regional competitions and won the Industrial Design Award at one competition. Their robot’s performance earned them a prestigious invitation to the exclusive off-season competition, Chezy Champs, where teams from all over the world gather to give new team members a taste of competition at the highest level. The team is excited to learn the details of this school year’s FRC competition, titled “DIVE,” when the challenge rules are released in early January!

 

Location: Our speaker will present in person at Community West Bank conference room at 445 Pine Ave. off Hollister Ave. in Goleta, and on Zoom. When you register, we send a confirmation email containing Zoom data, directions to the in-person location and meal details.

 

About our Meetings:

  • Our monthly meetings are now hybrid meetings! You may attend either in person or via Zoom. Some speakers will be presenting in person and others remotely. When you register, you can add payment for lunch if you plan to attend in person. Lunch will be a buffet with a selection of sandwiches from Three Pickles, chips and cold drinks. If you have special dietary concerns, please contact Cheryl Ebner at [email protected].
  • Renew your SEC membership or join SEC when you register, to attend 2024’s meetings with no non-member fee.
  • See our YouTube channel, which contains our growing archive of recent presentations!
  • Have an idea for a future meeting? Please contact program chair Yvonne Degraw at [email protected].

 

Upcoming SEC meetings:

  • October 9: Dr. Alyson Santoro, “Engineering Biodegradable Plastics for Tomorrow’s Ocean”
  • November 13: Dr. Spencer Smith, UCSB ECE, “Ways Brains Can Still Outperform Our Best Computing Machines”

 

Tech Talks Around Town:

Virtual Attendance: Yes

Location:

Community West Bank Conference Room, and Zoom

445 Pine Avenue
Goleta CA 93117