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 Nine
We are currently compiling information from the 2007 season, and expect to be done soon. Thanks!
Quick Stats
Drive Train
Speed: 9 ft/sec
Motors: 4x CIM motors
Setup: 6WD, 6x custom machined 5.5" aluminum traction wheels
Offense
Secondary: Deploy a ramp in the home zone to get robots above 12"
Rate: 2-4 Tubes per match
Loading: Floor loading
Autonomous: Drive-by Scoring on the Rack
Defense
Autonomous: None
Drive Team
Coach: Ben Piecuch
Driver: Arthur Dutra IV
Operator: Ben Chuong / Josh Gibbs
Human Player: Jessica Morin
