Clark Magnet High School - Robotics

Robotics

FIRST Robotics Team 696 (The Circuit Breakers) is based at Clark. Since the team's foundation in 2000 and rookie year in 2001, members have created eleven fully functional robots in the six week time period allotted. With the help of several mentors, including employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and various other mentors, the team, composed of high school students (grades nine through twelve), has competed at FIRST Robotics regionals in Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. In the 2007 season, after taking finalist in the Los Angeles Regional and winning the San Diego Regional, the team attended the international championships in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time in the team's history. In 2012, the team took quarterfinalist and the Motorola Quality Award at the Los Angeles Regional, held in Long Beach, California, with their robot Queen Hannah's Revenge.