About Us

The Metal Mustang Robotics, FRC Team 2410, was founded by senior Josh Fried after approaching the woodshop teacher, Daniel P. Ritter III, who had previously coached other robotics teams.  Josh and Mr. Ritter urged the administration to approve the creation of an FRC team. Once it was approved, the team was advertised throughout the school, and attracted students from all grade levels. The team consisted of 14 boys, who throughout the year attempted to create a robot.
The season started with preliminary training, and during the fall of 2007 the team began learning how to work in the woodshop and work together as a team. They learned how to work with metal by constructing stage props for the school play and started building the pit and the crate in which the robot would be shipped. During the build season, the students began to learn how to work with the robot parts and with the help of the first team mentor, Mr. Navickas, the students began to learn how to program and work with electrical systems. There were arguments on the design of the robot and how it would be built, but slowly the robot came into shape. A showcase for parents and teachers alike was organized and the robot was presented before the competition.

The team headed to St. Louis for their first regional. The team experienced multiple problems with the robot and had difficulty getting the robot to work, but slowly the team overcame adversity and began to do better at the competition. For their efforts, the team was awarded the Rookie All-Star Award, qualifying them for the national championship in Atlanta. The team did better in the Kansas City Regional, advancing to the elimination matches. At Atlanta, the team competed and did well, but did not make it to the elimination matches.

The next year, Spencer Hobson-Gutierrez was delegated as the team captain.  The new season heralded a diversification of the team’s roots, as girls joined the team for the first time. The team expanded its numbers as well, as the success of the team had spread throughout the school. The year included a whole new FRC control system, and the team once again had to relearn how to incorporate the new software and electrical system into the robot. The team’s identity began to form, as the newly formed image team began to focus full time on building the team’s image and colors; new talent in art allowed the team to create an official logo and further establish itself in FIRST.
The team’s robot included a much more intriguing and complex design with more functions and better control than the first robot had. The team worked better together and communicated in a fashion that allowed the team to do better than they had done the year before. The robot consisted of a spiral and a ball intake and shooter. The team headed to the Kansas City Regionals, where they finished strong in the quarterfinals of the competition after a crisis occurred with the programming. The program was updated, but the update had rendered the code useless. The programmers worked all day reprogramming every component of the robot, and finally managed to finish everything by the end of the day.  The team was able to rebound from its setbacks, but the team did not qualify for the national competition. Following Kansas City, the team went to Denver to compete. Like Kansas City, the team finished strong but did not qualify for the national championship.

Despite not qualifying for the national championships, the team did far better than it had done the year before. The team did a better job at communicating and working together, and built relationships that would last a lifetime.

                This year, the team has diversified and expanded even more, and now consists of 27 students, 4 mentors, and 1 team coach. The team has gotten more organized and has developed its identity even more than it has in the past two years.
The team is currently working hard on finishing up the robot and is improving in all aspects. With more students, more talent, and more experience, the team hopes to do better than it ever has at the Greater Kansas City and Oklahoma City Regionals this season.

 

Our Website

All of our content here on our website is 100% original. Those awesome looking banners? Most definitely. Our logo was designed by our team member, Rahul Sharma. Everything else was made by me, the Webmaster. Using Dreamweaver and a CSS code system, the files are uploaded using our domain provider. For more information involving our website, you may e-mail me. The pages are all made on Adobe Dreamweaver with orginal content from yours truly and all the other public relations team. If you like what you see, you may also send us an e-mail. We'd love to hear what a great job we are doing!

 

Team Members

 

 

Future Members/ Honored Guests

We are always eager to welcome new members! Our knowledge is here to be shared with others and we love to share our passion of robotics and teamwork as well.

If you are interested in becoming a member or visiting to see our team in action please e-mail us HERE!