About our Robot
Team 228 at a Glance
Location: Meriden, Connecticut, USA
Team Size: 25 Students, 10 Mentors
High Schools: Platt, Maloney, and Wilcox Tech High Schools
Rookie Year: 1999
Team Mantra: Contagious Enthusiasm!
Learn more about our history!
From our rookie year of 1999 until the present, Team 228 has continued to grow, expand, and introduce and inspire an ever increasing number of students and mentors to FIRST through the FIRST Robotics Competition, the FIRST Vex Challenge, and the FIRST LEGO League. Read more...
Learn more about the history of Team 228!
Each year as part of the FIRST Robotics Competition, Team 228 must build an entirely new robot from scratch. Six long weeks of designing, machining, fabricating, wiring, and programming go into the creation of our team's robots. When the robot is shipped at the end of each build season, we are hardly done. We always seek to improve our robots, to add new features, to make our drive trains faster, our arms more powerful, and our programming more extensive during the official Fix-It windows or after the competitions during the post-season.
Learn more about Gus 10.1 and Gus 10.2
We are currently still building both of our robots (the competition robot and the practice robot) for this build season. We will update this information with more specific information after our first official competition.
Quick Stats
Drive Train
Speed: 9 ft/sec
Motors: 4x CIM
Setup: 6WD, 6x 5"x2" Colson Wheels, Live Axle
Offense
Secondary: Driving around the course
Rate: Fastest lap time: 12 sec, Hurdling TBD
Loading: Can pickup trackball from floor, or catch in air from other another robot's hurdle
Capacity: TBD
Autonomous: TBD
Defense
Autonomous: TBD
Drive Team
Coach: TBD
Driver: TBD
Operator: TBD
Human Player: TBD
