2012

• Team 4099 was founded!
  • Group of students from SMCS came together and formed the team
  • Raised funds, recruited staff mentors, and formed a team of dedicated students to compete in their rookie year
• Won Rookie All-Star award at the Washington DC Regional
  • Rebound Rumble robot
• Attended FIRST Championships in St. Louis and finished in the middle of the pack in the Galileo Division

2016

• Won Innovation in Controls award at a district event for developing a unique Linux driver for the Microsoft Kinect

2018

• Made the elimination rounds at both of its district events and advanced to the FIRST Championship in Detroit
• Began RoboCamps
• Huge expansion in our budget
  • 6k last year —> 50k
• Began RoboBadge
  • In-person sessions to help local boy/girl scouts earn their robotics merit badges by teaching them engineering concepts and engaging in friendly competition
• First year participating in Poolesville Day
  • Community event where our team runs a booth to allow people to experiment with driving VEX IQ robots and see our competition robot in action
• KID Fest
  • Ran a station to showcase our competition robot and VEX IQ mini-robots

2019

• Built their most advanced technical robot
• Made it DCMP for the first time
  • After 2015 switch from regional —> district format in Chesapeake
  • Regional: Scoring well in regionals and/or winning a top award boosted you directly to the FIRST Championships
  • District: Scoring well in district events and/or winning a top award (eg. Impact, then called Chairman’s) allowed you to compete in the District Championships (DCMP), and doing well and/or winning a top award in DCMP boosted you to the FIRST Championships
• Began mentoring Team 64840C Robo-Barons
  • Mentored Team Robo-Barons on how to design, build, and program a robot using materials from pre-designed kits to compete in an engineering challenge
  • Provided them financial sponsorship to help them purchase materials throughout the season

2020

• First year we did full CAD before building the robot
  • Learned a lot of design principles through planning in CAD
  • Contributed to us making quarterfinals at Haymarket week 1 competition
  • Allowed us to ensure all mechanisms meshed well with each other and there was no clipping, accurate model/dimensions mech could work off of
• Moving out of room 199 into the church across school
  • Larger work and meeting space
  • Metaphorical and physical expansion
  • Taking advantage of local connections