Welcome to the IRS. This is the official web site for Issaquah High School's robotics team, the Issaquah Robotics Society. We are FIRST Robotics Team 1318.
News: We won the 2008 Portland Regional Chairman's Award! Whoo! Great job 1318!!!
We are a group of students and mentors who meet at Issaquah High School to learn about and build robots. We compete in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, in which we get 6 weeks to design, build, and program a robot to compete with and against other high school teams at a 3-day regional event. The challenge is different each year, but our skills continue to grow as our team gains experience.
We meet weekly during the school year (and daily during the build period). Look for us in room N-2 after school. See our team page for additional details.
Our high school ran a regional qualification event for FIRST LEGO League (FLL) middle school teams. That competition, for students 9-14 years old, has team members build and program LEGO Mindstorms robots and present a report on their research of a topic related to the competition's theme. Read about Issaquah Middle School's team for this year, and the team's accomplishments for 2006 and 2005.
2008 season
The FIRST Robotics 2008 Competition kicked off on Saturday, January 5 2008. The archives of the kickoff are located at http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/2008_frcwebcasts.php .
Team 1318 was awarded the Portland Regional Chairman's Award! As a result, we will be attending the Championship Event in Atlanta, Georgia in April.
We placed 2nd out of 31 teams at the Microsoft Seattle Regional and our alliance with teams 488 and 1696 was 3rd. We also won the Judges Award.
2007 season
The FIRST Robotics 2007 Competition kicked off on Saturday, January 6. You can view archives of the presentation and the game animation at http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2007_kickoff.php.
Read our daily log to follow along with our team's progress before and during the build period.
We had great fun and success at the Pacific Northwest FIRST Regional on March 1 - 3!
We placed 13th out of 54 teams during the qualifying rounds, and joined the 5th-seeded alliance for the elimination rounds. We partnered with teams 488 and 1595, who are also Washington teams.
Our alliance won two quarter final matches to advance to the semi-finals, where we used our scouting information to let us know to roll out our secret weapons: an autonomous defense, and our awesome defensive abilities during the match. We fought hard, winning a match and tying another before giving up a second loss.
This link will show a video of our robot (5 MB) at the 2007 FIRST Pacific Northwest Regional. You will need QuickTime (free download) to view this.
Our 2007 robot, as rendered from the CAD:
2006 season
The FIRST Robotics 2006 Competition kicked off on Saturday, January 7. You can view archives of the presentation and the game animation at http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2006_kickoff.php.
Read our daily log to follow along with our team's progress during the build period. New! The log has been updated with details of our experiences during competitions, starting with the Pacific Northwest Regional.
2005 season
At the kickoff on Janunary 8, we got the description of the 2005 challenge. Read the daily log to follow our progress creating the robot and competing in the Pacific Northwest Regional in Portland, Oregon.
2004 season
We had a great showing in the robotics competition at the Pacific Northwest Regional (March 4-6 in Portland, Oregon), ranking 5th out of 36 after the nine seeding matches. That earned us the privilege of heading one of the eight three-team alliances in the finals. What a great accomplishment for a rookie team!