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Welcome to Team696.com! This is the site for Clark Magnet High School's robotics team. We participate in the FIRST (For Inpsiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition.

Our team is located in La Crescenta, California and has been competing since 2001. While visiting our site, you can learn about our team's history as well as current activities.

UPDATE: Our Kickstarter campaign was successful!
Thanks to everyone who pledged support.

Read student biographies! Gain an insight into our current team members.

Read about our robot for 2011, Reptar!

Perspectives on FIRST: Read some personal views on FIRST from Team 696 graduates.

Upcoming Events

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5/31/11 - La Canada Fiesta Days Parade

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Photos and videos from Build Season
As the clock ticks, the team gets more and more done each day because let's face it; some people get their best work done under pressure. For Mr. Black's sake, however, the team is putting all their effort, time, and focus into building this year's robot. If you want to get a glimpse into what we've been doing so far, the media team has set up a Shutterfly account that you can access by clicking the link below. Enjoy!

Team 696's Shutterfly
Posted on January 28, 2012 by Megan
Finals are Over...Back to Work!
Finals week is over (we're all relieved) and Robotics is back in the engineering lab, carefully racing to get the robot built before Stop Build Day on February 21st.Which unfortunately means no relaxation time for now, but it can wait till after competition.
We're already halfway through the 6-week window for building and the team has done quite a large amount of work. However, we're still under a time crunch. At the moment, Mr. Black is shooting for at least one week of practice time. Meaning the team is going into overdrive this weekend in order to finish the robot. Designs need to be finalized, manufacturing needs to be done, etc. The business team is going out today to visit potential sponsors and we just finished our design for the Team 696 dog tags (I'm sure you're excited for those!).
We also want to thank those of you who've supported us so far this year. No matter how you've done it (feeding us, helping out around the workshop, getting us to school, donations, Kickstarter, or even DonorsChoose), we truly appreciate your dedication to our team.

Check back soon for another Team 696 update (:
Posted on January 27, 2012 by Megan
Turboencabulator
For a number of years now our team has been working on the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

Now basically, the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motions of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magnetoreluctance and capacitive directance.

The original machine had a baseplate of prefabulated Amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzel vanes so-fitted to the ambifacient lunar wane shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the up-end of the grammeters.

The Turbo Encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and is being successfully used in the operation of nofer trunnions. Moreover, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.

It's not cheap, but I'm sure the government will buy it.
Posted on January 20, 2012 by Will
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