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2010 - Breakaway

The game is called Breakaway.
 
  Click here for a resource page on this year's game "Breakaway".
  Clikc here for a YouTube animation briefing of the game.
 
  Clicke here for a very important YouTube Safety Video.
 
About our robot, Meshach 6.0:
    Click here for an evolving spec sheet on our robot (PDF)
 
Team 1629 was featured on An Engineering Mind at the 2010 World Championships!.  Click here for the clip.
Team 2818 (FTC, a Garrett County team with shared FRC team members) was featrued on An Engineering Mind at the 2010 World Championships!  Click here for the clip.
 
  Testing Clips
  Click here for an early test of our "Uber" Kicker.
  Click here for a YouTube clip of our 'Kicker Trials'.
  Click here for a YouTube clip of testing three goals in autonomous mode.
 
  Chesapeake Regional Clips
  Click here for a YouTube clip of Meshach6.0 in the 2010 Chesapeake Regional Qualification Match #90.
  Click here for a YouTube clip of Meshach6.0 in the 2010 Chesapeake Regional Quarter Final Match.
  Click here to see the Chesapeake Regional Announcement of Team 1629's winning the Chairman's Award.
 
Looking for Alliance Partner Cooperation...
 
  Team 1629 has added ramps to our robot!  Click here for a PDF with pictures.  Care to come aboard?  Touch base with us at the competition to work out the details...
 
 
Our Competitions
    Chesapeake Regional (March 11-13, 2010)
        Quarter Finalist
        2010 Chairman's Award winner!!
    Buckeye Regional (March 25-27, 2010)
        2010 Engineering in Excellence Award (Fri, Mar26, 6:10pm)
        #1 Seed going into Elimination Rounds (Sat, Mar27, 12:15pm)
        #1 seeded Alliance (1629, 291, 1014) (Sat, Mar27, 12:45 pm)
        Quarter Finalist (Sat, Mar27, 1:05 pm)
            All three Red Alliance (ours) robots experienced signicant computer, software, and electronic challenges,... all of which were collectively overcome.
            Thank You Team 2665!  Talk about Gracious Professionalism,... they loaned us their computer so we could continue forward!
        Semi Finalist (Sat, Mar27, 3:02 pm)
            Sometimes, the planets just don't align right.  We gave it our best, tried our hardest, and built our character...
    FIRST Championships (April 15-17, 2010)
        Archimedes Division
        We gave it our all and did our best...
        It just was not meant to be...
 
2010 Competiton Results
  Go to The Blue Alliance match archives for details...
 
Meshach6.0
 
2010 Team Members (19)
 
Aaron Beitzel  Sophomore
Andrew Beitzel Senior
Dylan Beitzel  Senior
Brian Bramande Senior
Jake Bramande Junior
Domonic Dolan Junior
Kevin Haenftling Sophomore
Emily Huxford  Sophomore
Aaron Lantz  Sophomore
Levi Lantz Freshman 
JP Law Senior
John McGettigan  Senior
Nick McGettigan Sophomore
Aryne Riley  Senior
Rosemary Rosser Sophomore
AJ Storck Senior
Brandon Tichnell  Freshman 
Jeff Trautwein Junior
Addi Varndell Sophomore