TACOBOTS ROBOTICS TEAM
2016 Norcal Champions
First place winner at the Northern California Championships.
2016 CORE VALUES AWARD
Winner of the “Core Values” award at the Niles Qualifier.
About Us
We are a FIRST Lego League team based in Fremont, CA. Our team number is #15821.
We formed our team in Spring of 2015. We didn't all know each other when we first got together, but we do all go to Mission San Jose Elementary school. We are a group of 9 kids ranging from 9 to 12 years old, from 4th grade to 6th grade. Four of us have competed in FLL last year, while for the rest of us, the 2015-2016 season was our very first year in FLL.
We hope you find our website interesting and informative. We also have an old site that you may wish to visit at Clash of Trash.
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rowdy
We're a little wild... after all, we're still kids.
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hard work
But we work hard, because we want to do the best we can...
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fun
...but not too hard, because we're 100% fun!
MEET OUR TEAM
Ryan
Mrinaal
Carolyn
Abhi
Amelie
Vikrant
Jeffrey
Prakrit
Ishan
Our Sponsors
The Tacobots would like to thank our wonderful sponsors.
Please support these businesses as they have supported us!
We are always looking for additional sponsors. Would you or your organization like to help us? If so, please visit our GoFundMe site. We also have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, so if you prefer to sponsor us directly, please contact us via email at: sponsorship@tacobots.org.
Latest news
Thanks for a great season… see you next year!
This FLL season is over and we had a blast! From last summer to now, we have really grown as a team, learned a lot about robotics, and had a lot of fun. The hard work we put in was well worth it. Thank you coaches and parents. See you all next year!
Visit to UC Berkeley
As a part of the FLL outreach program, our team wanted to visit universities and companies that were working in the robotics field. The Tacobots sent out several requests to outreach programs and were lucky enough to be invited by the University of California at Berkeley’s Robotic labs. We were super excited to see research and innovations at[…]
Proclamation from the Mayor!
This past Tuesday we received a proclamation from the Mayor of Fremont, Bill Harrison. Thank you, Mayor for recognizing our achievements! Also, thank you Councilwoman Sue Chan for all of your great support and help in finding sponsors for us. Last but not least, special thanks to our sponsors from Republic Services. Republic Services has[…]
Tacobots in the News!
Wow! We’ve been getting a lot of press lately, check us out in these news articles: San Jose Mercury News Tri-City Voice Siliconeer The World Journal India Currents We’ve also been working hard on getting sponsorships and donations as we prepare to go to St. Louis. If you or your company would like to help[…]
We’re going to the World Championship!
The Mission San Jose Elementary FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Robotics team Tacobots has won 1st place competing against 43 other teams in the Northern California Championship in Sacramento on Saturday, January 16th. The Tacobots will now advance to the FIRST LEGO League World Festival and FIRST Championship in St. Louis in April 2016. The World[…]
Norcal Championships here we come!
On Saturday, January 16th, the Tacobots competed at the Northern California regionals in Sacramento. There were a total of 44 teams at this competition, representing some of the best FLL teams in Northern California. We were set up in lucky booth #13. We had a pretty good start to[…]
Tacobots compete at the Niles Qualifier
On Saturday, November 21st, we went to the Niles Discovery Church for our very first FLL competition. We did quite well at the event. Our robot had the second highest score. And we won the award for Core Values!
Outreach at MSJE
Thanks to Principal Graves, the Tacobots were invited to give a presentation at Mission San Jose Elementary School. We presented our project, “Smart Trash” to a full auditorium.
Taco Party!
We Tacobots don’t just sit around and build and program robots all day… we also like to eat tacos!
Setting up Trash Trek Mat
This year’s FLL challenge is called “Trash Trek”. We received our mat back around the time school started this year. We were very excited to see what challenges lay ahead of us, but little did we know the challenges we faced required many sleepless nights. Nonetheless, all the hard work we put in will pay[…]