Our Team
We are Team 3089 – Subaru and the Hebrew Reali High School from Haifa, Israel, and this is our second year participating in FRC. Nowadays, the team consists of an average of twenty students of our school that are competing in this year’s game, Breakaway, with our robot.
Our team was founded towards the end of 2008, prior to FRC 2009 competition, by Assaf Shulman – a physics teacher at our school and a lecturer in the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). Then we had approximately twenty students and five mentors.
Until the FRC 2009 kickoff arrived, our team had initially forged its team spirit and learned about usable tools for managing a robotics team and building a robot. We chose a captain, and split to three main sub-groups: Mechanics, Programming and Strategy. Right after watching the kickoff for the 2009 game Lunacy, we had been building the robot called Prism for 6 weeks and then, in February 17 – we shipped it to the regional event in Tel Aviv.
The regional competition of Lunacy started officially one month later (March 18), and we got some impressive achievements: reaching the quarter finals, getting the 3rd award for best sketching and an excellence award for the website.
In September 2009 the team began its preparations for 2010 season, dealing with retirement of students and mentors. We found new energetic members, elected Mor Beer (11th grade student) as our new captain and chose Baruch Bakalo as the leading mentor replacing Shulman. In addition, the senior students taught the new ones necessary skills in order to work in each of the three sub-groups.
Kfar Yona - Team 3339
During fall 2009 we competed in FRC 2009 Off-Season (An exhibition game Of Lunacy), and got to know there a rookie team from Kfar Yona (team 3339). We had been keeping in touch with them, and after a while we hosted them at our school in order to help them becoming integrated in the FIRST community.
In January 2010 we watched together FRC 2010 Kickoff and were announced about 2010 soccer-like game – Breakaway. Since then, we have been working, even harder then 2009 Building Season, in order to build a new successful robot.
We look forward to contributing as much as we can towards the society as FIRST and competing teams have contributed to us.
Good luck and see you at the competition!
Subaru and the Hebrew Reali High School
