Our history

Nuts and Bolts Robotics was founded in 2018 out of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, CA. Since then, we have worked to inspire students to become leaders in the STEM field, grown our team, built technically competitive robots, and encouraged community involvement and exploration of robotics. 

The team competes in FIRST Robotics Competition, a worldwide organization facilitating a hands-on approach to STEM in a competitive setting. As a team, we embrace the core values of FIRST, including Gracious Professionalism, which encourages healthy competition, respect, and high-quality work. We also extend this to executing another key facet of FIRST - spreading STEM education and passion for technology. So far, we have assisted in mentoring FLL team 461: Terminatorz at our local middle school, running a summer camp for kids in elementary and middle school, and appearing at local events.

As 2019 Rookie All-Stars at the Monterey Bay Regional, we were also invited to compete in the FRC World Championship in Houston, TX. This pushed us to better our team and work towards even greater future success. We are excited to continue growing, competing in events, and working to inspire future engineers.

 

Previous & Current Seasons

2018 - 2019 (our first FRC season)

  • Program Manager: Ethan Hanlon

  • 2019 Game: Destination: Deep Space

  • Robot: Freedom 7

  • Won Rookie All Star at the Monterey Bay regional

  • Went to Houston, TX for world championships

  • Started FLL summer camp

  • Participated in 4th of July parade, Christmas parade

2019 - 2020

  • Program Manager: Thomas Emerton

  • 2020 Game: Infinite Recharge

  • Robot: Tonk

  • Held socially distanced, safe FLL summer camp

  • Started mentoring FLL Team Terminatorz (Britton Middle School)

2020 - 2021

  • Program Manager: Grace Taira 

  • 2021 Game: Infinite Recharge

  • Robot: Tonk

  • Hybrid meetings

2021 - 2022

  • Program Manager: Tejal Oza

  • 2022 Game: Rapid React

  • Robot: Slaybot

  • In-person meetings at Live Oak 

2022 - 2023

  • Program Manager(s): Susan Kirchhoff & Camila Romo

  • 2023 Game: Charged Up

  • Robot: Pistachio

  • In-person meetings at Live Oak