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 Four
Please pardon our lack of content: we are still compiling our archives!
Our 2002 robot was Gus 4, which was "slow but steady". On both ends of the robot, there was an insanely over-engineered goal grabber, used for controlling both mobile goals.
Quick Stats
Drive Train
Speed: 5 ft/sec
Motors: 2x CIM motor
Setup: 4WD, 4x 8" Skyway wheels
Offense
Secondary: Get back to the home zone
Capacity: Can control two mobile goals at once
Defense
Drive Team
Driver: Ryan Morin (freshman)
