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2022 - "Nyx"
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2022 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Kettering #2 District Event
Event Finalists
Industrial Design Award Winners

Belleville District Event
Excellence in Engineering Award Winners 

FIRST in Michigan State Championship
Innovation in Control Award Winners

FIRST World Championship Houston Texas
Newton Division FINALISTS
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OFF SEASON COMPETITIONS

The Big Bang! - Event WINNERS

Kettering Kickoff
Day 2 - Quarter Finalists

2021 - "Eris"
FIRST Infinite Recharge at Home Skills Challenge runs Playlist
2021 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

***State Rank estimated - 2nd
***World Rank estimated - 13th
(based on Skills Challenge results)

FIRST Infinite Recharge at Home
Tin Group - WINNERS
Judged Robot Awards - Autonomous Award (2020 Robot)

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OFF SEASON COMPETITIONS
***using updated 2020 robot "Erebus" playing Infinite Recharge game

FINite Recharge - Indianapolis, IN - Event FINALISTS
1st seed alliance with Captains Team 3538 RoboJackets and Alliance Partner, The Argonauts

Kettering Kickoff
Day 1 - WINNERS
Day 2 - WINNERS


Lapeer Robotics ROBOCON Competition
Day 1 - FINALISTS
Day 2 - WINNERS

2020 - "Erebus"
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2020 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

*Final state rank not accurate due to season cancellation and many events and teams having not played*


Kettering #2 District Event
Event Winners
Engineering Inspiration Award Winners
Dean's List State Championship Semi Finalist Winner - Aiden Storts

Lansing District Event
*did not compete, but certain awards were given*
Chairman's Award Winners 

2019 - "Aether"
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2019 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Ranked 18th in the state out of 542 teams


Kettering #2 District Event
Event Finalists
Chairmain's Award Winners

Marysville District Event
Event Semi-Finalists
Autonomous Award sponsored by Ford


Traverse City District Event
Event WINNERS
Autonomous Award sponsored by Ford


FIRST in Michigan State Championship
Consumers Energy Division Finalists 

FIRST World Championship Detroit
Curie Division
8th seed Alliance Captains
Division Quarter-finalists

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OFF SEASON COMPETITIONS

Indiana Robotics Invitational  - Our 1st time being invited! 
Excited to compete with 67 other elite teams. Ranked 25th after all qualifying matches. 
Auctioned off our 2019 manipulator for charity while there. 

ROBOCON  - Event WINNERS 
1st seed alliance with captains Team 3538B (9998) The "B" Team and partners Team 6085 Green DevilBots and Team 7056 The F.A.S.T Team. 

Washtenaw Robotics Competition  - Event Finalists  
3rd seed alliance with captains Team 3655 Tractor Technicians and partners Team 7066 The Byting Irish
Winner of the "Best Robot Feature (Engineering Excellence)"


MidMitten Robo Rodeo  - Event Finalists  
1st seed alliance with captains Team 4130 The Blue Devils and partners Team 9988 Blue Deviled Eggs (4130B) 

Great Lakes Bay Bot Bash  - Event Finalists 
1st seed alliance with captains Team 5216 E-Ville Empire & Team 9996 
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Kettering Kickoff - Event Winners
1st seed alliance with captains Team 4362 Gems and Team 107 R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S
Winner of The Cornerstone Award as voted on by our peers



2018 - "Nemesis"
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2018 accomplishments:

Kettering #2 District Event
Event Semi-finalists 
Creativity Award Sponsored by Xerox
Dean's List Semi-Finalist - Gavin Storts


Marysville District Event
Event Winners
Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation


FIRST in Michigan State Championship
DOW Division Quarter-finalists
Excellence in Engineering sponsored by Delphi


FIRST World Championship Detroit
Curie Division
8th seed Alliance Captains
Division Quarter-finalists

Industrial Design Award sponsored by GM - Curie/Darwin Divisions


OFF SEASON COMPETITIONS

ROBOCON  - Event Finalists. 2nd place after all qualifying matches. 2nd seed alliance captain with our partners, Team 5460 Strike Zone and Team 818 Steel Armadillos

Kettering Kickoff - Event Finalists. 2nd place after all qualifying matches. 2nd seed alliance captain with our partners, Team 2337 EngiNERDs and Team 703 Phoenix.  Received the "Magnificent Machine Award" for our robot. 

Great Lakes Bay Bot Bash - Event Winners! 1st seed alliance with Team 9996 (1506B), Team 1250 Gatorbots and Team 5203 Volatile Chaos Inhibitors
Received the "Hottest Bot Award" from host Team 703 Phoenix. 

Bloomfield All Girls -  Event Semi-Finalists.  7th place after all qualifying matches. 

2017 - "Artemis"
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OFF SEASON COMPETITIONS

The Big Bang  - 1st place after all qualification matches.  1st seed alliance captain.  Event Finalists with our partners, Team 862 Lightning Robotics and Team 280B TnT Divas

Kettering Kickoff - 8th seed alliance with partners Team 1506 Metal Muscle and Team 910 The Foley Freeze.  Quarter-finalists.  Our mentors also competed and came in 2nd place.

Great Lakes Bot Bash -  1st seed alliance along with captains, Team 2619 The Charge and Team 9832 Livonia Warriors 2.  Event WINNERS!  Also given the award "Hottest Bot" 

Bloomfield All Girls - 6th seed alliance captain, event semi-finalists.



2016  -  "Rocky"
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2015 - "well..."
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2014 -  "Thor"
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    The 2014 FIRST Robotics season was a lot more challenging than previous years, mainly for the fact that it required a much larger amount of teamwork and cooperation than a lot of the other competitions. In addition, coordinating three teams to work together can be quite the task on its own, but it is only all the more difficult when each team has little to no experience with the other teams, and each team has their own ideas and strategies for completing the objective. As such, we designed our 2014 robot to handle a wide variety of gameplay mechanics and tasks so that we could deliver outstanding performance in any competition role that was required of us. From its monstrous 12-wheeled drive-train to its dual-facing intake system and thunderous kicking wedge right on down to its ability to change its front/back orientation, our robot was designed with power, precision, and personality in mind.
- Connell Howard Senior 2014

For more on the 2014 FRC season and other team events click here!

​2013 

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2012  -  "Tank"
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Rebound Rumble was the name of the game and “Tank” dominated the courts. The challenge in 2012 was to create a robot that could play an altered form of basketball. At the end of the match robots could balance on bridges to gain extra points. Our robot featured a double-sided pickup system. It was able to drive over a ball and instantly pick up it up without slowing down or changing course. Once it had the ball it was able to lock on to the reflective targets and easily score all three shots. The robot was also designed to easily cooperate with other robots during the end game balance segment. Its wide body and front “Skis” allowed the bridge to be quickly tipped and fit multiple robots on the bridge (more robots on the bridge meant more points). Our robot was designed to be an extremely reliable and robust machine. It rarely broke, and when it did it was usually a quick fix. In fact, “Tank” is still operational today, years after its completion.  - Troy Willmer Junior 2012

For more on the 2012 FRC season click here! 
2012 Off Season Project "BroncoBot" 
Broncobot was a fun project created in only a matter of hours in order to bring some robot fun into the Lapeer Days parade of 2012, whose theme was "The Wild West". So in the dining room of one team member, BroncoBot came to life. It drove through the parade a week later and has been slowly improved on ever since. - Amie Barker Sophomore 2012

2011  - "The Claw"

The FRC challenge of 2011 was to gather inflatable tubes in the shape of a triangle, a square, and a circle and place them on pegs, there were three sets and each set was placed at differing heights,  to form the FRC logo, hence the name "LogoMotion." This years FRC represents two challenges; to accurately and effectively grab the game pieces (the tubes) and raise the game pieces vertically so the game pieces can be placed onto the pegs. To overcome these challenges we designed our robot with a claw, hence its name "The Claw," that would grab the tubes and we mounted that claw onto a plate which we designed to elevate upward or downward to change the affective range that our claw had at grabbing tubes and placing tubes onto the pegs. Our solution to the 2011 FRC challenge was a simple one, but effective.
- Brad Berlinger Junior 2011
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Previous games our team played before our name was changed to The Chimeras.
We were "The Alchemists" or "Lapeer East Golden Eagles"

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