• Team History

    In August, 2008, a group of Boeing employees met with a career technical education teacher from a local high school at the local Round Table Pizza. What was born that day was Team Jack in the Bot , Team 2910. A few months later our team was in front of a live NASA broadcast being presented our first robotics challenge. We pumped hours upon hours of our time into crafting a robot that, in our opinion, would have an actual chance against the veterans in the FIRST Robotics competition. While bolting pieces of metal to each other, we had to organize team communication, team rules, and team funding. However it was a task that we accomplished with a combination of hard work and community support.

    At the Microsoft Seattle Regional our team was commended for our team spirit combined with our roles in spreading FIRST in our school, community, and local businesses. We were awarded the Rookie All-Star Award, the most prestigious award for rookie teams, that earned an invitation for our team to participate in the FIRST World Championships. The FIRST World Championships gave us the opportunity to compete against the best robotics teams in the world and create a vision for the future growth of our team.

    Team Impact

    Before the club even started at my school, Henry M. Jackson High School, I thought that First Robotics Competition would be a great addition to my schools community. Below are the thoughts I had about it:

    Students that participate in First Robotics Competition will have many valuable experiences: real world problem solving, teamwork, deep investigations (electronics, math, writing, advertising promotions, computer science). Through each of these experiences students will explore and be intrinsically involved in the standards for math, science, communications and work based readiness skills. However these are only the academic standards the human quotient; the factor that spurs us to move forward in life is not listed and is the most valuable factor in this experience for all of the students. Students that participate in First Robotics Competition represent a higher percentage of students completing college majors in the areas of Math, Science and Engineering. Students that participate are changed for life as they realize their own capacity to create a dream, overcome obstacles, work hard and enjoy the process.