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Technophobia
Technophobia
Technophobia is a seven-year-old team, founded in the summer of 2018 during the Rover Ruckus season. Originally, there were four members of the team, all juniors in high school. For the following year, many new members were added, including five freshmen, to keep the team alive after the seniors graduate, and to share the knowledge of STEM and FIRST to them. This year we have 1 senior, 5 juniors, 4 sophomores, and 1 eighth grader. We also have three new members this year to keep the team alive for future generations.
In order to make sure everybody has fun, and is able to learn new things we always make sure that everyone will have a task to do for the meeting from building the robot, programming, and for the end of the season our portfolio.
Throughout the year, the team not only makes a robot to compete in FTC, but also performs numerous forms of outreach both within and outside of the STEM community. This is done in an effort to educate people about FIRST and STEM, and to get more people interested in the organization.
If you are interested in: joining the team, learning about FIRST, or just robotics in general, feel free to contact Technophobia.
Into The Deep
Center Stage
Finalist Alliance - 1st team selected at IL Peoria Western Qualifier
Control Award - Qualifier
Power Play
Innovate award at Qualifier
2nd runner up for Control award at Qualifier
Set state record score at 1st competition (163), 3rd competition (242)
Winning Alliance, 1st picked team at IL State Championship (Binary Bullets, Techno, Newton Busters)
3rd place for Innovate Award
Advanced to World Championship!
New personal best score of 244 in Finals Match 1
We hold 4 of the top 8 scores in IL
Freight Frenzy
Winning Alliance Captain at Peoria/Northwestern qualifier
Think Award at qualifier
2nd runner up for Design Award at qualifier
Set state record score at 3rd competition (254), 4th competition (292), and state championship (307)
Highest ranked in-person team in IL heading into state championship
Captain of 2nd alliance at state (we were selected by #1)
Control Award at state
Voted #11 on FIRST Updates Now Top 25 list
Ultimate Goal
Top ranked team at Southern/Central/Western League Tournament
Control award 2nd place at qualifier
7th in state at IL State Championship
Woodie Flowers award
Voted #12 on FIRST Updates Now Top 25
Skystone
Connect Award at qualifier
2nd runner up for inspire at qualifier
Ranked 7th of 27 in regular season in Peoria League
Runner up for connect at State Championship
Rover Ruckus
Ranked 3rd of 25 in Peoria League Championship
1st selected team in Finalist Alliance
The Members
The Members
Matthew Dalllinger-Eaker
Matthew Dalllinger-Eaker
Hello, I am Matthew Dallinger-Eaker. This is my 6nd year in FIRST and in FTC and I am part of the programming team aswell as the build team. I go to East Peoria High School and I am a senior. I am much more experienced with java this year than I was with my first year, and I can't wait to see what we can do for this season.
Aidan Copeland
Aidan Copeland
Hello, my name is Aidan Copeland. This is my third year of FTC, and I'm on the JV programming team. I am excited to learn more about java. I did FLL for 3 years; 2 years on The Bricks Awaken, and 1 year at Glendale.
William Nottle
William Nottle
Hello, my name is William Nottle and this is my third year of FTC. I am one of the JV Builders. I did four years of FLL and I am excited to use what I have learned from that alongside the new things that I will learn from FTC.
Isaiah Walker
Isaiah Walker
I'm Isaiah Walker and I am a sophmore at Pekin Commuinty High School. This is my first year on Technophobia. I have experience in CAD (computer Aided Design). This enables me to help in 3D design which allows me to create and print things that are needed for the robot.
Ava Alt
Ava Alt
I'm Ava Alt and am a junior in high school. I've been on Technophobia for 2 years as a builder. I currently go to East Peoria Community High School.
Bre Heeren
Bre Heeren
Hello, my name is Bre Heeren. I go to East Peoria Community High School. This is my second year in FTC. Something I am excited for this year is going to competitions. I was also on a FLL team called Bricks Awaken for three years.
Mia Atterberry
Mia Atterberry
Hello, my name is Mia Atterberry. I go to East Peoria Community High School and I am a Junior. This is my third year of FTC and I'm on the build team and I'm part of the art crew. I'm excited to see what we can accomplish this year. In addition I was on a FLL team called the Bricks Awaken for five years.
Abby Keith
Abby Keith
Hello, my name is Abby. I go to East Peoria Community High School and I am a Sophmore. This is my second year of FTC.
Lydia Jasinski
Lydia Jasinski
Hello, my name is Lydia. I go to East Peoria Community High School and I am a Junior. This is my first year of FTC. And i'm excited for new experiences and making new friends.
Quincy DeGroot
Quincy DeGroot
I'm Quincy DeGroot I've been here for 3 years.
Camden DeGroot
Camden DeGroot
My name is Camden. This is my second year of FTC.
The Robots
The Robots
This is our "Into The Deep" robot, designed for the 2024-2025 season, our last competition we went five wins for five wins utilizing this robot
Hadrian (Robot 1)
Hadrian (Robot 1)
This is our first robot that we designed for the 2019-2020 season. This was created as a prototype bot for the first few competitions. By using this robot, we were able to spend most of our time developing our final robot, Hadrian v2. The robots are named Hadrian after one our our sponsors, Fastbrick Robotics (FBR). They designed a bricklaying robot meant to construct buildings. We figured that the stones in Skystone are similar to bricks, and therefore our robot is also a bricklaying robot.
The first robot is capable of a small autonomous (moving the foundation and parking), a strong tele-op (stacking skyscrapers an average of 5-6 stones high), and a reliable end-game (capping the skyscraper, moving the foundation, and parking in the corner). This robot has successfully qualified Technophobia to the state competition, where the second robot will be used.
*More information can be found on the "Robots" page of our website by clicking the tab at the top of the page or the button below.*
Hadrian v2 (Robot 2)
Hadrian v2 (Robot 2)
This robot is the second one that we have designed for the 2019-2020 season. Our first robot was used for ideas and as a test; this robot is taking the best parts of the old design, while implementing new mechanisms as well. This robot has not been competed with yet, as it is being set up for the Illinois State Tournament. It will be capable of moving Skystones in autonomous, stacking skyscrapers up to 13 stones tall in tele-op, and will be able to do everything in endgame. Most of this robot was designed with a CAD software: Autodesk Fusion 360, Tinkercad, and PTC Creo.
*More information can be found on the "Robots" page of our website by clicking the tab at the top of the page or the button below.*
Ring Robot (name pending...)
Ring Robot (name pending...)
This is our 2020-2021 Ultimate Goal season robot. This robot can deliver a 71 pt. autonomous. During teleop, it can cycle through an average of about 5 or 6 sets of three rings into the top goal, scoring 90-108 points. In end game, it can shoot down all three power shots, as well as deliver both the wobble goals to the drop zone. The end game score can add up to 85 points, so our potentially highest score (if everything goes right and we get 6 cycles in) is 260 pts. However, the highest we have ever scored is 280 pts.
*More information can be found on the "Robots" page of our website by clicking the tab at the top of the page or the button below.*
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