Achievements

Event Awards
2012 Silicon Valley Regional - Imagery Award
2012 San Diego Regional - Regional Chairman's Award, Woodie Flowers Award
2011 North San Diego VEX Regional (1538W) - Champions
2011 Battle at the Border - Champions, Quality Award
2011 SCRRF Fall Classic - Champions, Quality Award, Peer Favorite Award
2011 Indiana Robotics Invitational - Mentor of the Year
2011 World Championship - Motorola Quality Award
2011 Silicon Valley Regional - Regional Champions, Motorola Quality Award
2011 San Diego Regional - Regional Chairman's Award
2010 Utah Regional - Finalists, Excellence in Engineering, Coopertition Award
2010 San Diego Regional - Regional Chairman's Award, Excellence in Engineering
2009 Fall Classic - Champions, Judges Award
2009 Indiana Robotics Invitational - Imagery & Design, Mentor of the Year
2009 Las Vegas Regional - Imagery Award
2009 San Diego Regional - Regional Chairman's Award, Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, Finalist
2008 Fall Classic - Highest Scorer
2008 Los Angeles Regional - Xerox Creativity Award, Engineering Inspiration
2008 San Diego Regional - Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, Imagery Award
2007 Fall Classic - Finalist
2007 Las Vegas Regional - Imagery Award
2007 San Diego Regional - Delphi's Driving Tomorrow's Techology Award
2006 Las Vegas Regional - Imagery Award

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Other Accolades
California Department of Education - Visit by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson (October 15th, 2011)
City of San Diego - Mayor's Decree: "FIRST Robotics Day in San Diego" (October 15th, 2011)
City of San Diego - Mayor's Decree: "FIRST Robotics Day in San Diego" (October 17, 2009)
City of San Diego - Visit with Mayor Jerry Sanders (May 2009)
San Diego County Sheriff's Department - Letter From Sheriff Bill Kolendar (March 2009)
United States Senate - Visit & Letter from California Senator Barbara Boxer (February 2007)
United States Department of Commerce - Visit from Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez (February 2007)

Current Season

The 2010-2011, Logomotion season has been one of the most successful years that the Holy Cows have experienced. The team has been under new leadership with Stephen Whiting, as the Director of Public Relations, and Chris Lutze, as the Director of Engineering, and the team grew to 64 members. The team also continued their community outreach by completing 4,000 hours of community service, for a total of 10,000 in the past three seasons. The team were champions of the 2011 Silicon Valley Regional and won the Motorola Quality Award, as well as, Regional Chairman’s Award Winners at the 2011 San Diego Regional. Moving on to the FIRST Championships, the Holy Cows won their first championship level award in the form of the Championship Motorola Quality Award.

Daisy Maize – 2011 (LogoMotion)

Features:

  • Physical Spec: 98.2 lbs, 59” tall
  • Drive train: 6 wheel west coast drive, single speed transmissions.
  • Max speed: 18.5 ft/sec
  • Lift: Arm could reach all 3 heights to score; arm could be raised from ground to top peg in 1.2 seconds. This made us a formidable opponent because we had the ability to achieve much higher scores than only on the high rack.
    Mechanism: Active roller claw; rollers made out of Delrin and covered with rubber grip tape. IR sensor allowed for continuous tube acquisition control.
  • Mini bot Deployment: Servo holds a spring loaded pivoting arm. Arm drops down when released and mini bot rolls on a ramp to the tower. The ramp allows the mini bot to gain momentum before vertical inclination. The ramp consisted a horizontal bar with a strip of galvanized steel secured to it. The steel allowed our mini bot to be magnetically attracted to it. The ramp acted ultimately as an extension of the pole. This extension transported the mini bot to the pole at the traveling speed of the bot; instead of a comparatively slow retractable sliding deployment.The mini bot employed a two roller design in which it magnetically coupled to the pole, and then used two rollers to propel it.
  • Chassis: Uni-body aluminum frame to reduce weight and improve alightment. Rails and mounting brackets on the side in order for the motors and bearings to mount. Mounting hole on the back for magnet.
  • Propulsion Mechanism: The mini bot was propelled by two aluminum rollers with 1/2” outside diameter surgical tubing lining them for grip. The rollers were direct driven to two Tetrix motors.
  • Deployment: The mini bot had tubes that would mate with matching pins on the main robot; the mini bot was held in place with a servo activated clamp on the main robot. When activated the minibot would push off it’s garage and would automatically activate and turn on the mini bot. At this point the motors would activate propelling the mini bot up the pole.

Driver: Ethan Chan
Operator: Jeremy Howe
Human Player: Wyatt Schulz, and Chris Lutze
Coach: Jon Jack and Kiet Chau

Chairman’s Presenters: Stephen Whiting, Kristin Olson, and Jocelyne Rubio

BAE Systems Scholarship: Stephen Whiting
Senior Scholarship: Chris Lutze
Rookie of the Year: Connor Worley
Founder’s Award: SAIC