Here is the link to our current website : Norman Advanced Robotics
Here are some pics through the years. NHS Robotics started in 1999. The pictures start in 2005 with our regionals and trip to San Jose for the Nationals. I am looking for pics from 1999 – 2004. If you are reading this and you have one or two, please email them to me at daskeyemac@me.com
- Botguy . . . you sexy beast.
- Future legend John Romanishin as a 9th grader. He was scary smart even then. Been building bots since he was in 2nd grade. He still is. Just graduated from MIT.
- An early 2004 bot.
- Our first state championship 2005. We came in 3rd in the regionals in 2003.
- San Jose 2005. Kent Miller (works for Apple), Jorge Vilatoro (another NHS legend), Zac White (now owns his own Software company in San Fransisco, and the other Macbook is mine.
- San Jose 2005. The beginning of a dynasty. The core members. Too much brain power for one table.
- Brenna Wallach. Brenna was the glue that held the team together for four years. A steadying calm influence. Now graduated college.
- After winning regionals in 2007.
- We did all kinds of things to raise money. HUGE garage sale, candy sales, football raffles, going door to door, etc. . .
- Our planning dinner for Hawaii 2007.
- First I buzzed Mr. Lifsics.
- Then Mr. Lifsics buzzed me.
- Mr. Lifsics buzzed me after graduation so that we could hold up our end of the deal. The team raised $3000. If they had raised $5000, I would have had to get a mohawk. Mr. Lifsics supported me by buzzing his hair. Pretty noble thing to do considering it was his first year as a sponsor.
- Shaving your head is weird.
- Hawaii 2007.
- Jamie and I in Hawaii 2007 after we ended up coming about 25 mm away from winning a 3rd straight World Championship. Oh well, it was A LOT of fun!
- Nils and John in Hawaii. Nils is now wrapping it up in Engineering Physics at OU and John has just graduated Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
- At the our 2007 headquarters on the 36th floor of the Ala Moana. We got an identical suite this year for our team headquarters.
- We took the bus everywhere in Hawaii in 2007. Probably do the same in 2012.
- Hawaii 2007
- Hawaii 2007. Wow, these are really out of order.
- Legendary builder and biker John Rom (Now getting ready to graduate MIT)
- back of 2009 tshirt
- Lifsics and Askey’s boys . . . Washington 2009
- Washington D.C. 2009. Future Norman Advanced Robotics members. Oh, by the way, they won the World title pretty much on their own. Now they prepare to dominate the world once again in Hawaii 2012.
- Marin Nitzov (graduated NHS 2002, Princeton 2006) now works for Citadel in Chicago). Marin has been our #1 contributor over the years.
- I think Garrett was a freshman here. Already showing signs of greatness.
- Was this 2010 or 2011? I get them mixed up.
- Jeff’s camera bot
- 2011 bot.
- Programmer extraordinarie Nafis 2011
- Aquabot 2011
- Cleaning up at Regionals 2011
- Regionals 2012 material. They gave us the list. We bought it, cut it and then tried to predict how they went together.
- Regional team 2011.
- At GCER in Los Angeles (2011). We ended up third in the world.
- I’m surrounded by enough brain power here to start a company that would dominate the world within 10 years.
- Marty leads a class in programming.
- Jake building a bot.
- Yemi (from the 2005 world championship team) came by to finish a painting of a robotic tiger he started 6 years ago.
- Our flying drone. The future of Botball?
- Dalyn and Ben after their perfect score in Documentation.
- Jeff and young Stephen set up the bots for one of the rounds at the 2012 Regionals.
- Our pit area at 2012 Regionals
- The final match with SW Covenant.
- Bots and hardware after the sweep.
- After sweeping Regionals. Not only did we go undefeated, no team scored a point against us.
- Garrett and Dane do much needed cardboard surgery on Lola prior to our return to Hawaii.
- Spring 2012 at the celebration dinner after sweeping Regionals.
- Spring 2012: Pancake Breakfast
- Spring 2012: With Representatives Martin and Virgin.
- Spring 2012: Team captain Garrett Sickles addresses the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
- Spring 2012: With state Senator Sparks.