Audrey 3 at Greater KC Regional - 2014
When Jaguar Robotics is at a competition, we get noticed! Our robot chassis is fabricated mostly from PVC. Our drive train is a belt system with pulleys designed and created by our team that are currently sold on AndyMark. They are available to all FIRST teams with the proceeds supporting our fundraising efforts.
Our designs have won the Xerox Creativity Award and Industrial Design Award for a number of years. Our lead mentors, Gary Hannah and Mary Beth Mattingly, are Woodie Flowers Finalists.
Our robot is always as unique as our team members. In the past 7 years, over 30 team members have graduated and gone on to study engineering and science cirriculums at MIT, K-State, KU, FIT, and Missouri S&T. The experience they
have gained from robotics and FIRST has prepared them for a promising future. In 2012 one of our members, Chris G., became a Dean's List Finalist.
As of 2020, it will be our 15th season being involved in FIRST Robotics. In 2005 the Kauffman Foundation sponsored high schools in the area to start FRC teams for a grant to cover fees.
At the beginning of our team's existence, we built out of Mattingly's room, but since then been granted 3+ rooms for both Mill Valley and DeSoto High School students to work in. We have built over 15 robots including a t-shirt cannon, Carrie's Canon, dedicated to sponsor, mentor, and robotics mom Carrie Molz who passed in 2018. Carrie's Canon has brought many experiences and joys since being built.
We have had very innovative ideas and functions on all robots, and every year they become greater. To acclimate to the challenge of climbing with Mater for Ultimate Ascent, our skilled programming team created a function to make it to where at the press of a button Mater could ascend the tower and dump discs programmed by
Ethan B. With the need for speed to grab the ball in Aerial Assist, Audrey 3 had a three-sided pickup mechanism featuring two 90 degree gearboxes designed by Brandon H. and others. For FIRST Steamworks, our climbing mechanism was designed entirely by senior mechanical member Jacob T.
