SF UNITY Robotics
#9038
Our Purpose
We are a rookie FIRST Robotics Competition team based in San Francisco that aims to promote STEM outreach in schools. SF UNITY has members from multiple high schools in order to further connect our community.
Our Story
SF UNITY was founded by Leyton Lin and Kyle Young, two high schoolers with an ambitious idea to start a FIRST robotics team. Our goal was to expand the network of people interested in STEM from outside our high schools. Instead of creating private teams within each of our schools, we wanted to conjoin our community and unify San Francisco. We also hope that SF UNITY will encourage a lot more students to join the STEAM community, as well as create stronger bonds between high schools.
OUR TEAM
SF UNITY is made up of a group of diverse, high school students spanning from freshmen to seniors, across multiple high schools in the Bay Area. We are all very motivated to contribute to this team and get this rookie team off the ground and flying.
Our 2023 Robot
Meet Karl, Team 9038’s first robot! Karl’s named after the wonderful fog of San Francisco. Being SF UNITY, we wanted to embody San Francisco and become the iconic fog. This is a modification of the 2023 Everybot.
January 6th, 2024
April 21st, 2023
April 6th, 2023
GOING TO WORLDS! After competing at the San Francisco Regionals, SF UNITY won both the Highest Rookie Seed and prestigious Rookie All Star Awards, catapulting us to Houston for the World Championships!
March 18th, 2023
February 19th, 2023
Complete! After a lot of ordering parts, waiting, and building…Karl works! The intake system was completed last week and installed onto the superstructure, which was installed a few days ago. After attaching and wiring everything, Karl can now fully function with its arm and drive movement!
January 28th, 2023
Movement! Through persistence and lots of problem solving,we’ve gotten the drive chassis moving and up on the Charged-Up plate! Looking forward for the arm!
August 11th, 2022
June 22nd, 2022
June 11th, 2022
Officially signed up for FIRST! We created an official FIRST team and had a couple of members join it. We also got our temporary team number #202300049! Some of us have also started working on some grants as well, with more to come in the fall.
First team meeting! This was the team’s first introductory team meeting where we explained what FRC is all about and how SF UNITY would work as a united team.
We have a space! Kyle and Leyton toured a maker space called HUMANMADE who has generously allowed us to use their space to host meetings and use their advanced facilities! It’s so much more than what we had hoped for and we look forward to working with them!
San Francisco Regional! SF UNITY competed in the San Francisco Regionals this past weekend and won 2 awards: Highest Rookie Seed and Rookie All Star. We finished rank 14/42 and were in the 6th alliance. Thank you to Team 649 and 8793! The Rookie All Star Award is the highest honor a rookie team can receive, celebrating our team exemplifying a young but strong partnership as well as implementing the mission of FIRST to inspire students to learn more about science and technology.
First Grant Received! BOEING was generously able to grant us money that covered majority of the registration expenses!
August 29th, 2022
2nd Grant Received! After much time and effort spent on creating diversity and business plans, we were able to receive another grant, surpassing our registration fee!
November 9th, 2022
All Grants Received! Thank you to all of our sponsors for helping fund the registration fee and our memberships to our workspace - looking forward to the season!
December 13th, 2022
Team 9038! We are now officially a FIRST FRC team - go team 9038!
TEAM UPDATES
FIRST World Championships! 9038 competed in the Archimedes division and competed very well as a rookie team. SF UNITY also won the Rookie Inspiration Award! This prestigious award celebrates a team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers within our community. We are so proud!
Crescendo Kickoff! Officially a veteran team now, 9038 kicked off the season with more than double the amount of members from last year. Already we’ve been generating dozens of design ideas and look forward to the rest of the season!
September 30th, 2022
January 7th, 2023
Kickoff! Official start of the season and tons of people showed up to help. We were invited to a kickoff event hosted by team 841 and were able to set up the coding software, build a chassis and the bumpers, as well as learn how to wire the electrical board. Good hopes for the rest of the season!
January 21st, 2023
2 Weeks In! After a couple weeks into the season, we’re going strong. We’ve finalized a design for our robot and ordered parts to start building. Hoping to get the drive base up and running soon!
Contact Us
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