About
Technophobia
Technophobia is a five-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. And now four new 8th graders and freshmen have joined to keep the team alive for another generation.
In order to make sure everybody has fun, and is able to learn new things we created a JV team consisting of the younger generation. That builds a robot but doesn't compete as a learning experience. While the Varsity team gets to compete and do what they want with their last years.
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.
Awards & Performance
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
Zachary Alt
Hi, I am Zachary Alt. I go to school at East Peoria Community High School, and I am a senior. This is my fourth year in FTC. I am a builder and enjoy designing, building, and driving the robots that we use in the competitions. This year, I hope place first in our division and hopefully state.
Evan Atterberry
Hello, my name is Evan Atterberry, and this is my fourth year of FTC. I am on the build team, and I am excited to see if we make it to state, or potentially even further. I also want to do whatever I can to help get us there. In addition, I was in FLL for four years, and mentored that team for the two years.
Thomas Bashusen
Hello, I am Thomas Bashusen. I attend East Peoria Community High School, and I am a senior this year. I am a builder, driver, and strategist for the team. This will be my second year in FTC. This year I hope that we make it to state and can be ranked very highly throughout the season.
Andrew Dallinger-Eaker
Hello, I am Andrew Dallinger-Eaker. This is my 2nd year in FIRST and in FTC. Since last year, I am more experienced with Java and looking forward to what we will accomplish this year.
Matthew Dalllinger-Eaker
Hello, I am Matthew Dallinger-Eaker. This is my 2nd year in FIRST and in FTC and I am part of the programming team. I go to Robein Grade School and I am in 8th grade. 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.
Brooklin Heeren
Hi my name is Brooklin Heeren this is my third year on FTC robotics team and I am in 11th grade and I currently go to East Peoria Community High School. I mostly enjoy hanging out with friends and working out and listening to music. I like to play sports. I am currently in best buddies, key club, soccer and I am also in Young life and robotics. I like being on the robotics team because I am in charge of outreach and planning too. I am also in tennis, school choir, and revive and I am a state ambassador for best buddies
Mia Atterberry
Hello, my name is Mia Atterberry, and this is my First year of FTC. I am on the JV build team. I'm excited to learn more about FTC and some more tricks for building. In addition I was on a FLL team for five years.
Aidan Copeland
Hello, my name is Aidan Copeland. This is my first 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
Hello, my name is William Nottle and this is my first 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.
Quincy de Groot
Hello, my name is Quincy de Groot. This will be my first year of FTC, and I am one of the JV Builders. I did 4 years of FLL on Korey Atterberrys team "The Bricks Awaken", having been a builder. I am excited to take what I know from FLL and use it here to benefit the team.
The Robots
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)
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...)
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.*