Stack Attack

The year of the Stack Attack was the most sucessful year for Team 230.  We had patienly built up a susanable organization over the pas four years and were the most active in our community out reach in the teams history.  This along with a stroke of luck that Team 236, the Techno ticks, decided to bypass the Connecticut Regional for their Chairmans Aword submission opened the door for us to win the Award this year.

Stack Attack stated out being an exciting game where constructing stacks for points out of plastic bins seemed like a winning stratagy.  230s low profile, grabbing arm, platform raising robot was a master at this craft and it it carried us through the qualification matches to the quater-finals in New England.  By the time we attended Philadelphia the game had degenerated into a box smashing, king of the hill, battlebots pushing match.  Despite re-designs  It proved too little, too late for us to be a contender.

2003 Events

·         Philadelphia Regional – Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA March 27-29, 2003

o   DaimlerChrysler Team Spirit Award

·         The Championship Event – Reliant Park, Houston, TX April 10-12, 2003

Team Awards

·         Founder’s Award – Rick Vogl

·         Unsung Hero Award – Jen Vogl

·         Engineers' Scholar – Alica Cox

Community Events

·         Gaelhawks Dinner & Auction 2002

·         Adopt-a-Family – Providing Christmas to local families in need

·         Relay for Life - 2003

·         Special Olympics of Connecticut 2003

Off-Season Competitions

·         4^th Annual Bash@theBeach - Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School, Old Lyme, CT October 26, 2002

·         UTC Scrimmage – Suffield High School, Suffield, CT