History of 5431
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2024
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2023
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2022
This season we have joined The Open Alliance on Chief Delphi. Open Alliance is a group of FRC teams who openly share their process of building robots and connections between FRC teams. We have met with an FLL and FTC team to demonstrate our bot and mentor. Attending both the Waco and Irving district events in Texas we left with a greater appreciation for thee teams around us who work together to share practice fields and parts. Our team has also realized how impactful our Imagery and Spirit is to our team and our STEM community.
For future years we hope to reach out to organizations and events like Ski Plano and Night At The Ballpark in order to demonstrate our robot and the benefits of FIRST. -
2020-21
During 2020, 5431 helped find a cure for COVID-19 through a process called “folding@Home” along with making over 200 masks. Over the past three years, we’ve developed various resources to help teams with awards, growing a strong parent community, programming, scouting, and CADing. We even hosted a “learn the game” night for our parents in collaboration with 6171. We were also fortunate to attend the Plano District tournament before the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely cancelled the Infinite Recharge season. At this event, we ranked 6th and won the Chairman’s award.
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2019
Our first district event was very impactful to our team. An alumni of our team had passed away before this event. In honor of his memory, we dedicated this season to him by changing our team name to “Titan Robotics in memory of Jordan Grant”.
We played each match to the best of our ability, winning each match (and tying in one). At Plano District, when the judges started calling winners for awards our team was shocked. First it was the Safety Award, then Event Winner, finally Chairman's Awards. We won a second safety award at the Greenville District. At States we won the Chairman's Award and performed just as well during matches.
With Chain Reaction, 6171 (now Wildcat Robotics) we co-hosted 2 new summer camps alongside our original Battle Bots camp;Intro to FIRST LEGO League and Intro to Engineering. -
2018
PowerUp was a challenge that pushed our engineering capabilities. During the ideation phase, our team came up with two great designs for a possible robot. Scorpios, a catapult on a drivetrain, was one of our original designs. We later changed the design and renamed the robot to Ophidian, which used a collapsible ladder system as both an intake and a climbing mechanism.
That year we had our second Dean’s List Finalist, Liav Turkia. He was the programming lead and developed our Titan UTIL Library. This library laid out templates, classes, and methods that the programming team could use for years to come. Our team also won the Creativity Award and the Imagery Award.
We volunteered and competed in both NTX and STEM Gals, hosted this year by 5417, Eagle Robotics. Titan Robotics also hosted our first summer camp! We taught kids ages 9 to 14 about STEM by using LEGO Mindstorms and fun challenges. -
2017
In 2017, our team walked into the Dallas regional with our robot, Themis. Due to bag-and-tag day, we had been unable to work on the physical robot, but we weren’t idle. We used this time to design a new lightning-fast robot named Thrice, and we used our 30-lb part bag to transform Themis into one of our best robots yet.
Thrice focused on scoring gears in the airships at high speeds and finishing matches with a blink-and-you’ll-miss it climb. This design choice paid off. With Thrice, we ranked 25th and tenth in the Dallas and Brazos Valley Regionals respectively. Our team also earned spirit and imagery awards, and Usaid Malik, one of our talented programmers, was a Dean’s List Finalist.
After our season, we started the North Texas Tournament of Robots (NTX) with FRC 6171: Wildcat Robotics, FRC 1296: Full Metal Jackets and FRC 5417: Allen Robotics. Together, we’ve created and sustained a tradition of friendly competition and engineering excellence demonstrated each year. -
2016
In 2016, we experienced our second year of growth and change through Stronghold. We were no longer the only FRC team in Plano - we had a sister team over at Plano Senior High School, FRC 6171: Chain Reaction Robotics (now Wildcat Robotics).
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2015
When the Plano Academy High School (AHS) opened in August of 2015, three students had a goal of creating a robotics team. These three students asked our principal for her permission to start an FRC team. She said NO!
So they worked together to start the Titan Robotics Club, building a robot to compete in a local BEST tournament. This only made the team want to join an FRC team more. This only made the students want an FRC team more, so they found mentors and coaches to grow into FRC 5431 Titan Robotics.
The first week of the 2015 competition season brought our team to the Dallas Regional. Competing with world champions like 118, 148, 1477, and 2848 was definitely exciting as 5431 came in 10th place, earning us an invitation to the third place alliance! Being the highest ranked rookie seed got us a spot to the St. Louis Championship! The seed started to sprout and we wanted to share it with our community!
