Our Team

“Our mission is to provide a positive high school team experience through robotics while inspiring intellectual creativity, fostering a passion for science, technology and engineering, and developing critical thinking, problem solving and team building skills.”

We are a rookie FIRST Robotics Competition Team.  We formed in September, 2009 with a handful of students, two teacher advisors and several mentors.  We spent the preseason recruiting members, fundraising, developing a marketing and business plan, and learning as much as we could about FIRST and robotics.  We divided ourselves into six sub-teams: programming, design, fabrication, and business, marketing and logistics.  We met twice a week to build our skills and grow our team.  As of kick-off, January 9, 2010, we have 58 student team members, ten mentors and two teacher advisors.

Our official team name is Canyon Crest Academy Robotics Team 3128, but we are more affectionately known as the Aluminum Narwhals.  Our team motto is “Pointing the Way to Robotics”.  Our team colors are Royal Blue and Silver and our team cheer is “BLAAARRRGG!”

We would also like to give an official SHOUT OUT to our mentor team San Dieguito Academy Team Paradox.  They set the bar for great mentor teams.  Their eagerness to share and their enthusiasm for robotics is contagious and we gratefully acknowledge their support.