About Us

                The Crescent Valley High School Robotics Team (FRC Team 955) was founded in September 2002 by engineering teacher Mark Baldwin, an applied arts teacher at Crescent Valley High School. We are now a 16-year-old FIRST Robotics team and have grown from just twelve students in 2002 to a family of over 40 diverse students in recent years. The team is a club activity at Crescent Valley High School in Corvallis, Oregon and is a part of the NASA sponsored FIRST program. Each year we participate in community education and outreach activities and compete in local robotics competitions and the worldwide FRC challenge.
                To spread the word about robotics, the team participates in local science and engineering fairs as well as various other community events. From the Da Vinci Days Scrimmage to the County Fair, the students teach community members about the program. The team also goes to local middle schools and attends elementary school science fairs to encourage the students to explore science and technology, and possibly join our team when they go into high school.
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Fabrication working on the robot.
                Since our rookie year, when we earned the Motorola Quality Award at the Pacific Northwest Regionals, we have maintained a history of quality and craftsmanship. Below is a list of some of our accomplishments so far:

  • 2002: Motorola Quality Award, World Championships Qualification
  • 2003: PNW Regional Finalist, World Championships Qualification
  • 2004: Sacramento Regional Winner, Autodesk Visualization Award, World Championships Qualification
  • 2006: Sacramento Regional Finalist, PNW Regional Finalist, Website Award
  • 2011: Entrepreneurship Award
  • 2013: PNW Regional Winner, Industrial Design Award,
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    Gen with the Entrepreneurship Award for Power Up.

    Industrial Safety Award, World Championships Qualification

  • 2014: Entrepreneurship Award, Industrial Design Award, World Championships Qualification
  • 2015: Winners of Philomath District event, Winners of PNW District Championship, World Championships Qualification
  • 2016: Entrepreneurship Award, Second Place District Event, World Championships Qualification
  • 2017: Finalists of Wilsonville District event, Industrial Safety Award, Judges Award, World Championship Qualification
  • 2018: Entrepreneurship Award

SOME OF OUR GOALS

                We constantly strive to increase the amount of time we spend volunteering, primarily by going to elementary schools to actively engage younger students in science and technology education. This extends to middle schools as well. This is a way to spread the FIRST 
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Us doing Outreach Events.
message while recruiting inspired students for future years. We highly value promoting enthusiasm for science and technology in younger students.
 A goal of ours is also to streamline fundraising methods that allow the team to work towards providing funds for our program while still allowing students to focus on participating in robotics. We hope that by establishing annual community fundraisers, such as Mother’s Day flower sales, our program will become sustainable and decrease

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Clecos!

the overall time we spend fundraising to allow for more robotics activities.

 We aim to increase the number of partnerships within the local community to promote investment in FIRST and its programs. This will allow the team to exert less effort in fundraising, and put a larger amount of effort into community outreach programs, like Da Vinci Days. Such partnerships link us to our community, and maintaining these partnerships increases the sustainability of our program in future years, as well as raise the current level of awareness of all sub-team activities within our team. This will allow our team to better function as a whole, and create less miscommunication between sub-teams, like coordinating team activities that involve all members; including fundraisers, or even competition deadlines.

 

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