Kodiak Robotic Industries
The Phoenix College Robotics club aim is to spread awareness and raise interest within our school and our community about robotics and robotic competitions. Club members will work with educators and other clubs to earn valuable life experience with robotics, technology and science
The PC Robotics Club is a student organization at Phoenix College. We are a group of people who enjoy building things and learning about how they work. We also create, program, run robots and robotic devices. If this sounds interesting to you, you belong in our group.
Vex U 2016-2017 Season Results
11/5/2016 Arizona Vex U Robotics Competition @ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona
Phoenix College sent 3 teams to this tournament, and while we did not win, we did learn a lot, had a lot of fun and made some new friends.
Vex U 2015-2016 Season Results
On Saturday March 5th the Phoenix College Robotics Club participated in the 2015-2016 Vex U Robotics Southwest Tournament, hosted on the ASU, Tempe campus. The Vex competition nothing but net is played on a 12' x 12' field. Two teams compete in matches with two robots each with an autonomous period of 45 seconds and a driver controlled period of 45 seconds. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing team by scoring balls and bonus balls in your teams low and high goals and by elevating robots in the climbing zone.
The PC Kodiak Robotic Industries (KRI) took four robots and competed against 9 other teams: the University of Colorado at Boulder, Embry Riddle University Blue and Gold teams, the University of Advancing Technology, New Mexico Tech, Northwest Nazarene University, Scottsdale Community College, Utah State University Eastern, and an unaffiliated team, the Automata LemonBot Alliance. The RoboBears got off to a good start by beating sister college Scottsdale Community College 62 to 60. The bears then suffered a defeat by the robots from Utah State 88 to 71. This first loss of the tournament was followed by a crushing defeat by the LemonBot Alliance 127 to 79.
After a midday break, the bears resumed their winning ways by destroying the robots from New Mexico Tech, 89 to 36. The bears then suffered another loss to the Emby Riddle Blue team, 113 to 43. That meeting between Embry Riddle Blue team and KRI was the third time the two teams faced off this season and with the win, the Eagles held a slight edge in head-to-head meetings 2 to 1. After some coding adjustments and wrench turning, the bears resumed their winning ways by taking out their frustrations against the team from Northwestern 85 to 15. KRI finished the qualifying matches going 3 and 3 and headed into the quarterfinals as the 6th seed and on collision course with the 3rd seeded Embry Riddle Blue team.
The format switched to the best two out of three for all finals matches and the eagles had to be feeling pretty confident as just a few hours before they beat the RoboBears easily (113-43). The RoboBears pulled off the first, and only upset of the day, by by beating the Embry-Riddle blue team 122 to 43 in their first match of the quarterfinals, and 101 to 71 in the second match. The win put the bears into the final four and matched them against the No. 2 seed from the University of Colorado. KRI's Cinderella run ended with two losses to the Buffaloes, 157 to 82 and 210 to 101. It was a great season for the KRI who have finished in the top 4 at the state tournament three times in four trips.
Team Members: Alex Almazan, Ainsley Chapman, Liliana Gutierrez, Lucas Jarman, Jazmin Luna, Ben Owens, and Cel Parra
Vex U 2014-2015
This was the year the robots were attacked by gremlins. We must never speak of this season.
Vex U 2013-2014 Season Results
On Saturday, March 1st, Phoenix College participated in the state VEX-U robotics competition that was hosted by ASU. There were more than a dozen PC students that participated in robotics this season. The Phoenix College Robotics Club built 3 remotely controlled robots for this years competition. The robots were required to score by moving 5 inch buckyballs and standard beach balls from various locations on the field to 3 different scoring areas. The college competition consisted of teams from ASU, Embry Riddle, Phoenix College and Scottsdale Community College. PC went into the elimination matches ranked 3rd but was able to make it into the title match by beating ASU by two points. Once in the finals the bears suffered a tough loss to SCC for the second year in a row to finish second. The bears were able to shake off the tournament defeat and pulled together to beat SCC and take 1st place in the programming skills challenge. This challenge is designed to test a team’s ability to design an autonomous scoring program for their robots. With the win the Phoenix College Robotics Club moved into a 5 way tie for 19th place in the VEX World Programming Skills Ranking for the collegiate division. Currently there are 270 registered VEX-U teams in the world.
The robots were built and programmed by Mark Hernandez-Schilling, Ainsley Chapman, Alanna Chapman, Jennifer Engle, Paul Ronquillo, Jorge Gallegos, Edwin Guerrero, Jakeb Denison, and Guadlupe Granado. The club mentors include Josh James, Symeon Larson, and Amanda Chapman.
Vex U 2012-2013 Season Results
On Saturday, March 2nd 2013, Phoenix College participated in the Arizona State Championship Vex Tournament - Collegiate Division that was hosted by ASU. The Phoenix College robotics club built 2 remotely controlled robots (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor) this semester for this competition. VEX Sack Attack is played on a 12’x12’ square field. Two teams – one “red” and one “blue” – composed of two robots each, compete in matches consisting of a sixty seconds autonomous period followed by sixty seconds of driver- controlled play. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing team by Scoring Sacks and Bonus Sacks in your colored Floor Goals, Troughs and High Goal, and by having the most Robots of your color Parked at the end of the Match.There were more than a dozen PC students that participated in the build with 8 students & several staff sponsors present for the competition. The robots were required to score by moving beanbags from the floor to 3 different scoring areas. The college competition consisted of 4 teams from ASU, Embry Riddle, PC and SCC. PC took 2nd place with a final record of 3 Wins & 3 Losses after being narrowly defeated with a score of 32-30 by SCC in the final round.
Ursa Major and Ursa Minor were built and programmed by Robert Cook, Daniel Dickinson, Myla Fairchild, Mark Hernandez–Schilling, Edwin Maya, Yany Ochoa, Kristina Richardson, Gilberto Vizcorra, and Zach Zeeman with mentors Joshua James, Symeon Larson, and Amanda Chapman. Half of the team did not have any robot building experience. As such, if you are putting off joining our club because you do not have any experience with robots do not let that stop you.