BLACKBEARD

FTC#17019

IN MEMORY OF NOA HAYAT

ABOUT

"Be the change you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi

In 2019, we opened in our school, in Haifa, Israel; a Robotics team in memory of our school athlete Noa Hayat RIP, named BLACKBEARD #17019.
We compete at the First Tech Challenge competition of the First Organization, an organization that encourages children and teens to be interested in science, technology and more. Furthermore, FIRST creates a contributing and powerful technological scientific community in Israel and all around the world. Every year there is a national competition where hundreds of children from many areas of the country, are participating and presenting their solution to the annual challenge.
In order to fulfill the group's vision - to build a broad community of children and teens who are interested in science and technology; we expose children to the technological worlds and motivate them. We create young robotics groups from elementary schools in Haifa, competing in the FLL program.
In 2022 we won the Israeli Competition's Promote Award, And in 2023 the Israeli Competition's Control Award and Winning Alliance Award.

NOA HAYAT MEMORIAL 

 Noa Hayat that graduated from our school, was the Israeli champion in field runs and road.
In addition, Noa has been Haifa's stairs champion in the last four years of her life.
On August 15th 2018, Noa was killed in a terrible car crash by a faced car, while riding her bike down a road. She was only 20 years old.

MECHANIC TEAM

The Mechanic Team is responsible for building the robot.
Team members learn how to use diverse equipment, and useful tools.
The construction process includes building a prototype and examining it in the process of experimentation and improvement.
Team members learn how to plan 3D models in a software named SolidWorks.
The planning process includes reference to the mechanism's functioning requirements, reference to competition limitations, as well as reliability, efficiency and safety of the final product.

PROGRAMMING TEAM

The Programming Team specializes in programming the operation of the robot.
Team members learn to program in JAVA language, practice software changes in robot simulations. They are also Responsible for programming the robot's movement on the field, reading his sensor data, operation of mechanical mechanisms, image processing, using neural networks (TensorFlow) and an augmented reality environment (Vuforia) and autonomous operation.

MARKETING AND COMMUNITY TEAM

The Marketing and Community Team is responsible for the group's budget, recruiting sponsors, advertising the group on social networks and writing the engineering notebook and portfolio.
In addition, the team is responsible for volunteering in the group's community and mentoring young robotics groups.



FIELD TEAM

The Field Team consists of: 2 drivers, a coach and a human player.
The team learns the rules of the season and trains for the competition games. Along the way, the team identifies problems and returns the robot for an upgrade.
The role of the coach during the season is to manage the training. In competitions, he coordinates with the allies the tactics of the team game and guides the drivers to accuracy.

HISTORY

  • SKY STONE

  • ULTIMATE GOAL

  • FREIGHT FRENZY

  • POWER PLAY

  • CENTER STAGE

PRIZES

2023 WINNING ALLIANCE

"If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney

2023 CONTROL AWARD

"May the shabbota be with you" - Or Vaisman

2022 PROMOTE AWARD

"It always seems impossible until it's done" - Nelson Mandela

SPONSORS

"Faliure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough" - Og Mandino 

Casa Capital

Donated 10,000 NIS to us in 2019-2020. With the help of their donation we could buy mechanical equipment to build the robot.

Google

Donated us 750 dollars with the help of the FIRST Organization. With the help of their donation we were able to buy another kit from FIRST which was helpful for the group's functioning and sustainability (during the trainings).

Haifa municipality

Donated NIS 5,000 to the group through our school. With the help of her donation, we were able to subsidize part of the price of the trip to the country, thus allowing all members of the group to join the trip at a low price. In addition, her donation helped us purchase clothing for the group.

Haifa Rotary Club

Donated 1,500 NIS to the group. With the help of your donation we could purchase more bolts and nuts.

M Power

Donated 2,500 NIS to the group. With their help, we were able to transfer money to the P.R.O.M team for marketing and community, purchase accessories for our Pit and costumes for the competition.

Gobilda

They gave us a 25% discount for buying from their website. With the help of this discount, we could buy mechanical equipment cheaply.

Ministry of Education Isreal

Thanks to you we were able to register for the competition.

 
 

OUR CAPTAINS

Dafna Ketter

Current

Tamar Rabinovitz

2023

Sean Misgav

2021 - 2023

Mia Tal

2020 - 2021

Ethan Nussinson

2019 - 2020

THE DUTIES OF THE CAPTAIN

CONTACT US

  • ביכורים 19, Haifa, Israel

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