2019 - DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE
2010 - BREAKAWAY
2010 - BREAKAWAY
2010 - BREAKAWAY
2010 - BREAKAWAY
Our latest creation, BanTOR III, is one powerful machine. The telescoping climber never failed to raise this beautiful bot. This robot also featured an unstoppable 6 Neo west coast drivetrain, that quickly zipped this little machine across the field. BanTOR III utilized a 5 ball autonomous mode to rank 3rd at the 2020 Los Angeles Regional and went all the way to the finals with teams 5124 and 2576. Unfortunately, this robot never got to compete at Champs (Thanks COVID, love you), however we did take our first-ever Chairman's Award at the cancelled Sacramento Regional.
Our latest creation, BanTOR III, is one powerful machine. The telescoping climber never failed to raise this beautiful bot. This robot also featured an unstoppable 6 Neo west coast drivetrain, that quickly zipped this little machine across the field. BanTOR III utilized a 5 ball autonomous mode to rank 3rd at the 2020 Los Angeles Regional and went all the way to the finals with teams 5124 and 2576. Unfortunately, this robot never got to compete at Champs (Thanks COVID, love you), however we did take our first-ever Chairman's Award at the cancelled Sacramento Regional.
Our latest creation, BanTOR III, is one powerful machine. The telescoping climber never failed to raise this beautiful bot. This robot also featured an unstoppable 6 Neo west coast drivetrain, that quickly zipped this little machine across the field. BanTOR III utilized a 5 ball autonomous mode to rank 3rd at the 2020 Los Angeles Regional and went all the way to the finals with teams 5124 and 2576. Unfortunately, this robot never got to compete at Champs (Thanks COVID, love you), however we did take our first-ever Chairman's Award at the cancelled Sacramento Regional.
Team 1197 has also won the following awards throughout our team history:
2020 Sacramento Regional
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Regional Chairman's Award
2020 Los Angeles Regional
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Regional Finalist
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Quality Award sponsored by Motorola Solutions Foundation
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Championship Wildcard
2018 Central Valley Regional
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Regional Finalist
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Championship Wildcard
2018 FIRST Championship (Houston)
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FedEx Innovation Challenge Winner
2018 Battleship Blast
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Competition Winner
2016 Los Angeles Regional
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Regional Finalist
2016 Arizona West Regional
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Quality Award sponsored by Motorola Solutions Foundation
2016 FIRST Championship (Houston)
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Championship Galileo Subdivision Winner
2015 Los Angeles Regional
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Regional Finalist
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Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation
2014 Los Angeles Regional
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Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox
2011 Los Angeles Regional
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Regional Winner
2011 Las Vegas Regional
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Engineering Excellence Award sponsored by Delphi
2010 Los Angeles Regional
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Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox
2009 Las Vegas Regional
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Regional Finalist
2004 Southern California Regional
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Regional Finalist
TorBots provides a variety of opportunities to grow as leaders and advocates for STEM. After participating in the 2016 World Championship, TorBots hosted a symbolic bill signing event to honor teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to launch towards space, with a commemorative coin. After several years of advocacy by the FIRST community, the Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act of 2019 was passed by Congress to celebrate Christa's legacy as an educator. The 2021 Christa McAuliffe Silver Dollar is now on sale in remembrance of the 35th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. A portion of proceeds from coin sales benefit FIRST, helping to inspire more students to pursue STEM careers, and TorBots is proud to have played a small role in advocating for this bill in our community.
The event, held at the Toyota Automotive Museum in Torrance, was attended by our Congressman Ted Lieu, sponsors, FIRST representative Cassie McIntyre, and many FRC and FLL teams in the South Bay region: Beach Cities Robotics (FRC Team 294), Beach Bots (FRC Team 330), Phantom Cats (FRC Team 2637), Vitruvian Bots (FRC Team 4201), West Torrance Robotics (FRC Team 5124), Sea Kings (FRC Team 5285), and the Widgets (FLL Teams 1458, 1459, 1460, 16123).
“I’m so honored to be here to support their legislation that would create the commemorative coin for Christa McAuliffe. Proceeds for that coin will benefit all FIRST programs, including these robotics programs. Our country can compete in sectors such as robotics, technology, biotech, health care, the entertainment industry … and they require STEM. It’s very important for people to learn those skills. What you’re doing here is so helpful. Not only for your own livelihoods, but for the future success of our country.”
- Congressman Lieu of the 33rd District