At the start, there was a robotics team known as Team 460; XBN. J. Michalicek had finally received authorization from the kingdom of B.V.M. (School heads) to create her own club at Xavier College Prep. A robotics team. The first order of business for this new team was to form an alliance between the North faction and the Brophy faction, thus the name of the team XBN. This alliance was under the adult leadership of a J. Beringer, A. Michalicek and D. Mnichowicz. The XBN alliance received a grant from the kingdom NASA to compete within the annual FIRST competition. After the six week period of building a robot, the XBN alliance traveled light-speed towards the San Jose Regionals. The alliance was also attended National point of competition at EPCOT in the Disney World Kingdom as guests of the team known as the �Gila Monsters�
Later the team did something completely out of the FIRST compeition and competed at a BOT BASH held at Confederate Air Force Hanger at Falcon Field on the planet Mesa, Arizona.
The next year rolled by and the North faction decided to leave the alliance, thus the team became known as XB Robotics. Another grant found it�s way from NASA, and along with other funding, from the allegiances such as Motorola the BX team found itself at the Southern California regionals, and again at the National level of competition, as a competitor not just a guest.
As 2002 came to roll by, Brophy faction took the helm as the leader, thus the name switched letters, becoming BX rather than XB. The team number also changed with this switch, number 991. Rules within the FIRST competition changed thus stating that the only people who could go to Nationals were those whose team number was even with even years, odd with odd years, or those who won at regionals. Sadly the BX team did not fit in either of those categories.
Then, in the year 2003, Brophy decided to leave the alliance. The team became known simply as Team �Blue� and returned to the original number 460. Up to that point, the only regional that the team was assured in competing within was the Phoenix Regional, which was kicking off its first year as a FIRST regional. Competition date came closer and closer, and then the robot the Blue team went on to win the Arizona regional! A wonderful accomplishment for this practically rookie team (because all new members were found with the split with Brophy). The team even went on to the National competition in Huston, Texas where we placed 42 in our devision out of 70 teams.
Now the year is 2004, and we faced even more trials than last year. This year, Xavier couldn't support us as a club and we had to find anothing place to continue our Robotix mission. We were lucky enough to have our wonderful president, Cassy, who worked extremely hard with mentors and other members to find us a facility at Microchip. We are now know as team caution, creating for ourselves an identity among the FIRST community and now we are on to return to the Arizona regionals at the FIRST community team, Xavier and PCDS students combined.
Wish us luck.
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