Janky 101
What is our mission?
Empowering girls to explore STEM via Robotics
What was the programming language we used before Java?
C++
What year did Bootcamp start?
2013
What does FIRST stand for?
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
Ms. Carrillo
How many students on the team have been FIRST Leadership Award Finalists?
6
What did the Business Committee used to be called?
Marketing
What was our role/title in the m.e. FIRST initiative last year?
District Coordinators of Northern California
How long has FRC existed and who started it?
1992 by Dean Kamen
Which mentors have been nominated for Woodie Flowers?
Mr. Mulla, Ms. Carrillo, Alvin, Tamara, Coach Aidan
Which year did we win CalGames?
2016
Could be: Miriom, Hatsune Miku, Kimchi,
What is an old outreach event that we discontinued?
Name one: Sunday Friends, Mentoring FTC team @ ND Belmont, Lowell Program, Toys for Tots
Who coined the term Gracious Profesionalism
Woodie Flowers
What middle school did Emma graduate from?
St. Martin of Tours
How many students were on the team when it first started in 2005?
12
What were the two original sub-committees that became combined into the Mechanical Committee?
Chassis and Game Components
What were two of the engineering fields that were represented at the 2025 YWES?
Name two: civil, environmental, electrical, software, biomedical, mechanical
(all have the word engineering after)
Name FOUR field names at Worlds
(hint: they're all scientists)
Name 4: Daly, Curie, Galileo, Archimedes, Milstein, Einstein, Hopper, Johnson
Which mentors have students that graduated from ND or graduated themselves? Name 4.
Tamara, Emma, Ms. McPeek, Mr. Mulla, Ms. Carrillo, Mr. Santos, Mr. Shaikh
What percent of Jankster alumni have gone into STEM fields?
70-80%
Before GitHub, programming used to save their code by copy-pasting it into Google Docs. How many pages did the complete robot code take up?
96
What does L.E.A.D. stand for?
Learn, Empower, Act, Discover
What was the name of the game piece for the 2021 FRC game?
Power cells
What was one of Alvin's crazy hairstyles?
-Pineapple Hair
- Lizard Hair
-Card Suits Hair