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The Fort Worth Christian Robotics team - known as team 3696 Robocards - spent three days in Houston over Spring Break competing in the largest high school robotics competition in the world. Teams from all over the United States and Mexico came together for the First Robotics Lone Star Regional competition. Over a three-day period, the 120-pound robots formed alliances of three robots each and competed against other alliances for the opportunity to advance to the world championship in St. Louis.
Nine students from FWC spent the three-day period applying their engineering and competitive skills as they worked in the pits to ensure that they had a working robot. While some worked in the pit, other students scouted other teams and set up alliances to compete in the 10 rounds on the field. The team's robot, dubbed the Cardinal Claw 5.0, stood up to the test, surviving high speed collisions, jammed arms, and broken drivetrains, to continually place a competitive robot on the field for each round.
Even though rookie teams usually don't perform well in their first showing at competition, the Robocards took the field like veterans, scoring, defending, and showing that they belonged as a valuable member of an alliance. Besides surpassing most of the rookie teams, by the end of the day, the Robocards had upset 18 veteran teams to take 26th place overall. The FWC rookies showed they were a force to be reckoned with for years to come.
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