2021: Game Changers
2021 was a 100% virtual season, and the rules were set so that each team could compete their 2020 robot or a completely new robot.
We elected to compete our 2020 robot Kyber for the Skills Challenge and a new robot Bahkar for robot design awards. We were part of a "field" called Cobalt for these competitions and completed the season as the WINNER for the skills challenge. We were also the Chairman winner for the PCH District Columbus competition for the FOURTH year in a row and multiple other awards. And after comparing robots across Georgia, CSP had the highest scoring robot for the 2021 season. We also had our SECOND Dean's List finalist in our history. 
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Awards:
Winner - Skills Competition (Cobalt Division) Quality Award (Cobalt Division) Finalist - Innovation Challenge Engineering Design Award - Game Design (Beryllium Division) Chairman's Award (Columbus Qualifier) Dean's List Semi-Finalist (Columbus Qualifier) FIRST Dean's List Finalist (Maggie F) 
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2020: Infinite Recharge
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This year, we had three new FTC teams, and two of the teams qualified for the State tournament. We are thrilled to have made such progress in such a short amount of time.
FRC, however, had a unique season that changed everything. We won the Gainesville event for the first time ever! It was a great start to the season, especially since we were also selected as the winners of the Excellence in Engineering award, sponsored by Delphi. The day before Columbus shut down the season. PCH Championships were cancelled, with only Woodie Flowers, Volunteer of the Year, Deans List Finalists, and Chairman winners being named in the spring. We competed for the Chairman award, as a result of our Columbus win and Maggie F competed for Dean's List, however we weren't selected for 2020. |
Awards:
Winner (Gainesville Qualifier) Excellence in Engineering (Gainesville Qualifier) Chairman's Award (Columbus Qualifier) Dean's List Semi-Finalist (Columbus Qualifier) |
2019: FIRST Launch |
2018: FIRST Power Up |
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The 2019 season is a great new adventure, because CSP won the Columbus Chairman award for the second time, but also the PCH District (State) award! This allowed CSP to go to the World Championships to compete in the Chairman competition for the first time ever. We had our largest senior class, too. It was an amazing year full of changes.
We were moved from Marshall Middle School to a new facility - one under control of Muscogee County to start the season. It's the STEAM Center, which we call HQ.. We have a full building, including a full field in the gym. We then started with training of our members - all fifty of them! A formal training program was instituted and formalized as part of the program. We also started the CSP Space Cadets, who went to STATE in their first season! We also flew DREAMS-29 this spring, which included Wilber the pig from FRC1902. We knew that pigs could fly! In the middle of the fall, we are always excited to go to GRITS. This year, we got to head to Gainesville for a full weekend in October. We had a good weekend. But in the end, we unfortunately didn't win == in fact, we were 2-5 but allowed to join the first alliance and WON. We did win the Spirit Award, also getting us one of the cool Automation Direct trophies. 
Awards:
Finalist (Gainesville Qualifier) Safety Award (Gainesville Qualifier) Chairman's Award (Columbus Qualifier) Safety Award (Columbus Qualifier) Chairman's Award (PCH Championships) |
Did we even HAVE an offseason? It's debatable. We finished up the 2017 season, finishing as part of the Houston Newton Alliance (Finalists). And we weren't satisfied to just walk away. We were contacted in early June by FRC, inviting us to join the winning Houston alliance at the FIRST Festival of Champions! Wow! That was so unexpected. After returning from New Hampshire, we still weren't finished. The TOTAL Solar Eclipse was coming. Prep for the eclipse started right after school started. The eclipse was an amazing opportunity. We traveled to Kentucky, where we launched two balloons, complete with sponsor materials (and more importantly four experiments being tested in totality).
Week one was the Gainesville competition. The weekend was a whirlwind and a great first step out. Breakout was introduced to the world via our newest Reveal video. During awards, we received both the Safety award and the Engineering Inspiration award, qualifying us for the District Championships in Athens in April. It was a pretty good start to the 2018 season (PowerUp!). The Columbus event is special each year, especially because our friends and families get to see us compete.. And, we saw amazing success on the awards side. This weekend, we won the Chairman's Award for the first time in our history. The second Deans List semi-finalist in our history (Skyla B) was announced this weekend as well. PCH added a fifth event this season -- Duluth event, which we joined. We also took over the Georgia FIRST social media. We were psyched that Chris Tucker attended the event, and best of all he signed BREAKOUT! 
We even got to see Chris Tucker again this week, and encouraged him to support a team in Atlanta. For the second year in a row, we were in the playoffs on Saturday, finishing as semi-finalists on Roebling. We didn't get to Einstein, but we got to spend good time together for the rest of the weekend, with involved and dedicated parents.
Awards: Engineering Inspiration (Gainesville Qualifier) Safety Award (Gainesville Qualifier) Chairman's Award (Columbus Qualifier) Dean's List Semi-Finalist (Columbus Qualifier) Finalist (Duluth Qualifier) Finalist (PCH Championships) |
2017: FIRST SteamWORKS
The second year of district play in Georgia was something beyond anything we'd imagined. We started the season with a week 1 competition in Gainesville. We competed as first pick for the first seed alliance, and were selected as the Engineering Inspiration winner for the competition. We were excited because the season was progressing beautifully. A couple of weeks later, we were back in Columbus to compete. We were selected to join the alliance with OTTO and finished as finalists. We also managed to get our first Pit Safety award. What a start! The week later, we returned to Albany.. There, we allianced with Walton to WIN the event (and get another Safety Award). That new pit layout was definitely working, and our cheesecake was a favorite for everyone who tried it. We were excited to go into District Championships on a winning streak.
At championships, we finished as the finalists, losing to two of our previous alliance captains: RoboBibb and OTTO. That's nothing to be ashamed of. Better still, we had our first Dean's List Finalist and our first Engineering Inspiration District win! What a way to go into World Championships at Houston! We were scared and excited to see we were returning to the Newton field, playing with powerhouses like Robonauts (team 118) and Citrus Circuits (1678). And what a fortuitous placement that was! In fact, those teams selected us as their third robot for the playoffs. And that was just the beginning! The first seed alliance on Newton (yeah, that was us!) won!!! We along with two other PCH teams progressed onto the Einstein field. Can you believe it? Destination Einstein came true. And, better yet, CSP finished as the finalists of the entire Houston Championships! We never imagined we'd be disappointed to come in second in the world. :-) But believe it or not, we weren't finished. At the beginning of June, we were contacted by FIRST. Turns out one of the teams on the champions alliance for Houston was unable to make the inaugural Festival of Champions competition in New Hampshire and who do you think they picked to replace the team: Yeah, us! Houston finished the season in July in New Hampshire as the finalists for FoC. Wow! can it get better? Oh we hope so. Awards:
Engineering Inspiration (Gainesville Qualifier) Finalist (Columbus Qualifier) Pit Safety (Columbus Qualifier) Quality Award (Columbus Qualifier) Dean's List Semi-Finalist (Columbus Qualifier) Winner (Albany Qualifier)) Quality Award (Albany Qualifier) Safety Award (Albany Qualifier) Engineering Inspiration Award (PCH Championships) FIRST Dean's List Finalist (Hallie R) Finalist (PCH Championships) Championship Subdivision Winner (Newton Field, Houston) Championship Finalist (Houston) |
2016: FIRST Stronghold
The first District Qualifier in Georgia was held right in our hometown of Columbus, Georgia We were proud to win the event as part of the 4th seed alliance.. Week 4 took us to the inaugural Rocket City Regional, in Huntsville, Alabama, where we were excited and anxious to compete because we'd be seeing teams from eleven states, including the legacy team Bomb Squad (16) and the reigning World Champions Robonauts (118). Eventually we captained our third seed alliance to a tough playoff, with our eventual loss in the Finals. Since Bomb Squad and Robonauts were already qualified for Worlds, that opened up two Wildcard spots -- and they went to us and our alliance partner, team 364.
The District Championships in Athens was a great learning experience and a terrific opportunity to take some chances and push ourselves. On Friday night, we were excited to find out that head coach Mr. Richardson was selected as the Peachtree District Woodie Flowers Award finalist!!! What a great way to earn our fourth banner (second this year)! We didn't end the competition like we wanted but we were happy with our new banner, our second qualification for the World Championships. A few weeks later, we joined the Curie field to compete at the Championships for our second year in a row. Awards:
Winner (Columbus Qualifier) Innovation in Control (Columbus Qualifier) Engineering Inspiration (Albany Qualifier) Finalist (Albany Qualifier) Finalist (Rocket City Regional) Woodie Flowers Finalist (PCH Championships) 
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2015: Recycle Rush |
2014: Aerial Assist |
The 2015 Season was the season of Worst to FIRST! We attended the Perry Regional competition in week 1, ending up 42nd out of 42 teams! We went home, reviewed our strategy and used our DE field to practice. Four weeks later, we went to the Peachtree regional in Atlanta. After round one, we were in FIRST! We went into the playoff selection in 2nd. From there, we continued to improve, thanks to our amazing alliance partners! A month later, with the help of several new sponsors and the support of our local media and political partners, we headed to St. Louis for Worlds. At first, it looked like an ugly repeat of Perry. After day one, we were struggling mightily. However, day two in the first match of the day, we had an amazing turnaround. In the end, we were selected to join an alliance in the playoffs. That was the end of the road for us, but what an experience!
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The 2014 team was a great success, though it changed from a community team back into a single school team -- not by choice but by chance. All of the members came from Columbus High School, except one who was a middle school student. Finding mentors from other schools became a problem. We also moved around to new workspaces a lot this year. We did, however, make it to the runner-up alliance at Peachtree Regional, missing World's by 10 points!!!
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2013: Ultimate Ascent |
2012: Rebound Rumble |
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In 2013, we saw our largest team to date, with members from eight schools around Columbus. Probably our favorite thing about this year was that we reached out to students who normally don't participate in STEM activities and got them involved. One of our drive team came over every day after football then basketball practice to participate. From this team, we had four students who would eventually go on to be their school's STAR Student (highest SAT) score.
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Technically, 2012 was our rookie year, and included our most recent MIT InvenTeams selections. We were a new team, made from two previous teams from Northside High School and Columbus High School, and including Spencer High School. It was meant to be a community-wide team. We had team members from multiple schools, but mostly Northside and Columbus. At the Peachtree Regional, we were awarded with the Rookie All-star Award, awarding the team with a trip to World's in St. Louis.
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