Team 451 - The Cat Attack

Welcome to FIRST Robotics Team 451!

Team 451 - The Cat Attack

FRC Breakaway Kick Kat
2010 Game: Breakaway
We have built "Kick Kat"
Next Mayberry in 1 Days
2010 Record: 13-12-1

About FRC 451: The Cat Attack

FIRST Robotics Competition(FRC) DANA Team 451, The Cat Attack is a group of about 30 teens from local high hchools, including Sylvania Northview and Southview. Founded in 1999 as the I-Questers at Sylvania Northview, the team has won numerous awards, many for Darkside, the 2006 robot. That is the brief history of FIRST FRC Team 451, The Cat Attack

Summer Is Here - Jul 11

By: PatrickP
We are starting on our summer projects, including a motorized robot car, mecanum wheels, CAN bus, and the community service robot.


Want to join the team? Although our open house has passed, you can still join the team. Simply come to one of our meetings, 5:30PM every Tuesday, at 6201 Trust Dr. Holland OH. Wait at the door next to the docks to be let in.

Open House Today! - May 25

By: PatrickP
Our open house is today, between 6 and 8PM. We are located at 6201 Trust Dr. Holland OH (map)

We will have food, information, and fun, so come see what we are all about!

Open House! - May 13

By: PatrickP
Come to our open house May 25 between 6 and 8 PM at our workshop for food, fun, and information about us. You can even drive our robots!

We are located at 6201 Trust Drive, Holland OH

Look for the big Dana sign at the end of the road, that is where we are.

Robot Eye Video - Apr 04

By: PatrickP
This year, like last year, we used our camera to make videos. This year, unlike last year, we saw it live on our ZomB Dashboard as well. This year, we got more than 3 videos, we got 13!


View them all @ http://thecatattack.org/media/2010/RobotEye%20Videos/ Most videos have a 5-15 second delay while we wait for the game to begin

Cleveland Pictures Posted - Apr 01

By: CWood
Some of our pictures from the Cleveland regional have been posted in the media section. You can find them here.

More pictures will be uploaded soon, so be sure to check back!

Cleveland Regional - Mar 28

By: PatrickP
The Cleveland Regional was just as exciting as Pittsburgh. On Thursday, we fixed Kick Kat's chain, and a few other issues from Pittsburgh, as well as adding a ball cam video feed. Friday we started out good, and we were flipped on our side, and things started to go downhill. we then died on the field three times before the day ended. On Saturday we fixed our dying issues, and jumped up to 8th seed before the seeding matches were over. We became the 4th alliance, but were knocked out in the quarter finals

Pittsburgh posted - Mar 18

By: PatrickP
Most of the photos for Pittsburgh have been posted at http://thecatattack.org/media/2010/Pittsburgh/.
Videos will be posted soon
Kick Kat now has a page (http://thecatattack.org/about/robots/kickkat/), and Pittsburgh also has a page (http://thecatattack.org/about/Year/2010Pittsburgh)

Pittsburgh Day 2 - Mar 14

By: PatrickP
Not quite as good as day one, we dropped to the 6th seed, and had numerous chain issues, which killed us, along with an alliance partners battery issues, in the quarter finals.


we have not placed this high since 2003, and never done this well in our first competition!

Pittsburgh Day 1 - Mar 12

By: PatrickP
What an exciting day, Pittsburg is off to a good start. We are currently the 3rd seed. Good Job to our drivers, Cameron and Patrick. We won the Imagery Award, the Website Award, and Tom O'Neil got the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award.


Today was a good day for Kick Kat!

We're on Fox! - Feb 24

By: PatrickP
Fox Toledo has their video of us on their website: http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/local/Cat-attack-robotics. Media night was a success!

More photos and videos have been posted here as well: http://thecatattack.org/media/2010/



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