PHRED's Story

 

In 2002, a group of Philomath High School students discovered FIRST robotics. Team 847's first robot, LEET bot, was named to commemorate the team's engineers. Every year since then the bot has been named PHRED after the team that built it, to keep their first creation special.

Our team has learned from each build season, and improved its teamwork and robot-making skills for 7 years.

The colorful and spirited team PHRED is known even to teams with whom it's never competed, and their distinctive black and yellow bot is always a favourite on the field.

Summary:

Here's a reference of what bot goes with which game and year. Click on the picture to learn more about that year's game and robot. For a full history of the FIRST games, please visit the Game History page on the FIRST website.

Bot/Year Overview Awards
LEETbot
2002
  • FIRST Game: Zone Zeal
  • Official Name: LEETbot
PHRED II
2003
  • FIRST Game: Stack Attack
  • Official Name: PHRED II
PHRED III
2004
  • FIRST Game: Raising the Bar
  • Official Name: PHRED III
 PNW Regional:
  • Chairman's Award
  • Leadership in Controls
Tetra on the field
2005
  • FIRST Game: Triple Play
  • Official Name: PHRED IV
  • Unoffical Name: Tetrabot
 PNW Regional:
  • Team Spirit
Ballbot and Terrance the Cone Head
2006
  • FIRST Game: Aim High
  • Official Name: PHRED V
  • Unoffical Name: Ballbot
 PNW Regional:
  • Team Spirit
Ladderbot 2007
  • FIRST Game: Rack and Roll
  • Official Name: PHRED VI
  • Unoffical Name: Ladderbot
 PNW Regional:
  • Team Spirit
PHRED VII poses for photos before retreating into the crate
2008
  • FIRST Game: FIRST Overdrive
  • Official Name: PHRED VII
  • Unoffical Name: Speedybot, the debated cheese wheel
 Oregon Regional:
  • Gracious Professionalism
  • Autodesk Visualization

2009
  • FIRST Game: FIRST Lunacy
  • Official Name: PHRED VIII
  • Chrysler Team Spirit
PHRED IX
2010
  • FIRST Game: FIRST Breakaway
  • Official Name: PHRED IX
  • Unofficial Name: Bernoulli Bot
 Oregon Regional:
  • Regional Finalists
  • Imagry Award
  • Regional Animation Award
  • Website Excellence Award

Ancient History

Our Story Begins

LEETbot
Team 847's first robot, Leet-bot: made for the 2002 game, Zone Zeal.

The FIRST team at Philomath High School had its first meeting in the spring of 2001 to discuss forming a team to compete in the 2002 season. The interest was there, and that fall the team was officially founded. The chief mentor, Doug, spread the word that the team needed engineers as mentors. Since he worked at Hewlett-Packard, Team 847 got Hewlett-Packard engineers to mentor. The team originally had two-hour meetings every Friday starting in September of 2001. Two LEGO Mindstorms kits were donated to the team by a student and the robot building was on. During the Friday meetings students divided into two teams to accomplish a task with the LEGO kit. They progressed from simple drivetrain robots, to arms that could manipulate objects and robots that could follow a line using the infrared sensor. During these Friday meetings the team devised a name; Philomath High Robotics Engineering Division: PHRED.