About Us

The AstroBruins Robotics Team (19819) is proud to be a community-based team, with many of our members coming from the Santa Clara High School’s 49ers STEM Leadership Institute. While we are rooted in this incredible program, we welcome members from all across the community, united by our passion for robotics and innovation.

Our mission is to create an inclusive, diverse, world-class team that is able to cooperate efficiently and productively to make an innovative, top of the line robot. After a successful season last year, we are looking forward to this year’s challenge!

Within our team, there are established sub-groups which specialize in different tasks that maximize our collective efficiency and productivity. All members are part of multiple subgroups which fosters an environment where everyone is able to grow and glow.

We hope to use the opportunities presented to us by FIRST to the fullest extent and inspire fellow students with similar interests. FTC was initially a chance to try something new and different and we hope to inspire others to do the same.

Our Motto: Dream. Build. Inspire.

Team Achievements

#1 NorCal Team Two Seasons in a Row! 🔥2023-2024 & 2024-2025

INTO THE DEEP
(2024-2025)

Inspire Award 2nd Place at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Inspire Award 1st Place at NorCal Regional Championship
Dean's List Award at NorCal Regional - Serena Gandhi

FREIGHT FRENZY (2021-2022)

Inspire Award at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Design Award 3rd place at NorCal Regionals

CENTERSTAGE
(2023-2024)

Inspire Award at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Inspire Award at NorCal Regional Championship
Control Award 2nd Place at FIRST Championship

SKYSTONE
(2019-2020)

Connect Award at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Inspire Award 2nd Place at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Connect Award 2nd Place at NorCal Regional Tournament

POWER PLAY
(2022-2023)

Inspire Award 3rd Place at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Think Award at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Inspire Award at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Winning Alliance - 1st Team Selected at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Motivate Award 2nd Place at NorCal Regionals

ROVER RUCKUS (2018-2019)

Collins Aerospace Innovate Awarded NorCal Qualifying Tournament, Control Award sponsored by Arm, Inc. 2nd Place at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Design 3rd Place, Inspire Award 2nd Place, Motivate 2nd Place, Connect 3rd Place, Control Award sponsored by Arm, Inc.
Winning/Finalist Alliance - Captain at NorCal Qualifying Tournament
Inspire Award at NorCal Qualifying Tournament

Our Team

Within our team, there are established sub-groups that specialize in different tasks that maximize our collective efficiency and productivity. Members are not restricted to one leading subgroup. In fact, many members overlap within these subgroups. We are all responsible for what our team achieves and do our work with this belief in mind. Our team is working towards the same goal, and by putting the concept of sub-teams in place, we are expediting our progress toward that goal and improving the quality of our work.

Our Team Structure

Robot design and build

Software

Robot design and build

Robot Build

This team leads robot-building sessions, devises gaming strategies, creates new robot mechanisms, prototypes the robot and its functions and parts, and communicates continuously with the Programming team to have the robot function coalesced with the developed code.

Software

This team develops code, runs controlled trials with the robot to ensure it is functioning at maximum efficiency, monitors and records trial results with the intent to enhance the robot's overall efficiency, keeps a detailed understanding of the game's point system, keeps track of competition rules, and leads bug fixing efforts.

Robot Design

This team handles the ordering of team goods and robot parts, manages the team's budget, creates business plans, researches and follows up on sponsorship opportunities, and works with sponsors to be accurately represented by the team.

Journal

This team documents all team meetings, logs the work of each sub-team into our journal, manages our engineering journal's overall organization and maintains a detailed record of all critical team decisions. This team maintains a technical and non-technical journal to ensure that all aspects of the group are well-documented.

Outreach

This team focuses on opportunities related to the community, researching opportunities to advocate STEM core values, spreading FIRST ideals, creating community outreach plans, and coordinating events with communities, companies, teams, and other groups.