Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs
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| The Cheesy Poofs | |
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| Rookie Year: | 2008 |
| Inactive Years: | {{{inactive}}} |
| Location: | San Jose, CA |
| School: | Bellarmine College Prep |
| Approx. size: | 50 |
| Team Website: | http://www.team254.com |
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General Information
Team 254, The Cheesy Poofs, has evolved over the years from the smallest FIRST Robotics program in the country in 1999, at a struggling high school, to a well-established organization based at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC). The team started at Broadway High School in 1998 and became an FRC team in 1999. In 2001, upon Broadway's closure, Team 254 moved to Bellarmine College Prep, where it has stayed to the present day. While the team's members have changed, the Cheesy Poofs have continued to flourish.
VRC Team 254 first began competing in the 2008 FTC season as Team 567. Upon FIRST's decision to switch to a new robotics platform, the team transitioned to the Vex Robotics Competition for the 2009 season and expanded to form multiple 254 teams. Despite entering only its third season of VEX competition, VRC254 continues to grow because of its commitment to character-oriented, student-driven success.
For the most part, this site is a summarized version of the VRC sections of www.team254.com. Please visit our website to learn more about Team 254 and its work in the local and national community, in both Vex and FIRST Robotics.
Sponsors
We would like to acknowledge our sponsors for their continued support of 254's VEX program:
Bellarmine College Prep - http://www.bcp.org
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) and the Robotics Alliance Project (RAP) - http://www.robotics.nasa.gov
Specialized Packaging Solutions, Inc. (SPS) - http://www.spsinc.biz
Moderators
Although VRC254 is a completely student-driven organization, we owe a lot for the time and lobbying of our two team moderators:
- Rob "Gray Squirrel" Janke, Robotics Head Moderator, Bellarmine Physics Teacher: rjanke@bcp.org
- Jim "Ur-Dawg" Urhausen, Robotics Assistant Moderator, Bellarmine Counselor: jurhausen@bcp.org
Team List
For more detailed information about our various teams, such as member, robot, and tournament listings, please visit their individual pages. Note: each ★ indicates a tournament victory. A double colon separates different VEX seasons.
254A ★ :: ★ :: ★★★★★★★
- Note: Team 254A competed in the '08 FTC season as Team 567.
254B ★
254C ★★★★
- Note: Team 254C competed at the 2009 All Star Championship as Team 254S.
254D ★
254E ★ :: ★
254S (★)
254Z ★
Additionally, Team 254 has created a growing number of robots that cannot clearly be accredited to any of the above teams. These are the Team 254 Failbots and Screwbots.
Contact Information
Please direct any inquiries to the respective team captains. We would like to hear your comments and will gladly explain any ambiguous bits of our bots.
Team 254: bcpvex@gmail.com, or John Mueller, jmueller.bcp@gmail.com
- 254A: John Mueller, jmueller.bcp@gmail.com
- 254B: Drew Willner, drew.willner@gmail.com
- 254C: Derrick Dominic, derrickdominic@gmail.com & Co-Captain Roshan Patel, roshan.patel11@bcp.org
- 254D: Erik Anderson, erik.anderson11@bcp.org
- 254E: John Paton, john.paton10@bcp.org
- 254F: Kendall Searing, kendallsearing@hotmail.com
- 254S: Nick Eyre, nick.eyre11@bcp.org
Alumni
Radley Angelo '09 (254A) - UC San Diego
Daniel Braunstein '09 (254A) - West Valley College
Michael Chrisman '09 (254A) - University of the Pacific
Tyler Santos-Matson '09 (254A) - UC Irvine
Bellarmine Bay Area VEX Robotics Tournament
Each year, Team 254 and Bellarmine College Preparatory host a VEX Robotics Competition qualifier. For the Clean Sweep season, the tournament was held on October 31, 2009. To see the tournament results, please visit the RobotEvents.com event listing.
