Team History
This Tacoma innovative high school is where our team was first started
What is the Tacoma School of the Arts (or SOTA)?
This (old) sponsor trained our team in CPR for free
What is the Tacoma Fire Department?
Previously known as the chairman's award this is the most prestigious award in FRC awarded to teams for their community service
What is the impact award?
This outreach event happens every January in various elementary schools through Tacoma where students teach kids about energy and physics.
What are classroom visits?
This is one of the founders of FIRST WA who runs interviews at DCMP with impact teams
Who is Kevin Ross?
This year was the SOTAbots Rookie Season
What is 2008 or FIRST Overdrive?
We work at this previous sponsors dog shows
What is the American Kennel Club?
Previously known as the Entrepreneurship award this award is given to teams for their sponsor and fundraising efforts, and recently for their environmental initiatives
What is the Sustainability award?
The SOTAbots volunteer at these museums to introduce kids and families to FIRST programs and the SOTAbots
This Founder of FIRST WA was a mentor for the SOTAbots and 360, and won the Woodie Flowers award at World Champs. He can be seen walking around in kilts.
Who is Stokley?
This is the organization that the SOTAbots created with FRC 360 in 2011 that provides a practice field for local teams
What is the Tacoma Robotics Alliance (or TRA)?
This sponsor does our team banner
What is Zumar?
This award is frequently known as the "2nd place impact award" and if won at DCMP NASA pays for the winners entry fees to world champs
What is Engineering Inspiration Award (or EI)?
What is FIRST Legislative Day?
These mentors founded the team and just retired last season. They have two corgis!
Who are the Luthy's?
This mentorship system is unique to the SOTAbots and known through the PNW for its Star Wars theme
What is the Jedi Padawan system?
This sponsor is owned by Jim Gow
What is Puget Sound Marine Services
Students write an essay to nominate their mentors for this award
What is the Woodie Flowers Award?
This is about how many people the SOTAbots reached last season
What is 5,000?
This Alumni started Ginger Gears, mentored our team, and had a video made about them on the FIRST Washington youtube channel
Who is Jay Kelley?
This year the SOTAbots won the Engineering Inspiration award at World Champs
What is 2019 (or Deep Space)?
This sponsor is from the state of Washington and is a grant we apply for
What is the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (or OSPI)?
This award celebrates the rookie team exemplifying a young but strong partnership effort, as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.
What is the Rookie All Star Award?
In 2023 the SOTAbots helped run this outreach event with Way Out Kids
What is the Teched Out Summit?
These two city of Tacoma council members work closely with the SOTAbots
Who are Kiara Daniels and Joe Bushnell?