Please excuse our dust, we're remodeling! You will probably find partially complete pages, missing pictures, and mis-spellings as you move through our new website. We're completely remodeling and are not quite finished yet. However, we thought it was important to put the site up specifically because the footer bar contains an updated list of our major sponsors for the 2012 season.

Welcome! We are Team 1718, The Fighting Pi. We are a FIRST Robotics Competition team. We are based out of the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences in Armada, Michigan. This is our seventh year as a team. The team is composed of about 30 students from four rival school districts: Richmond, Armada, New Haven and Memphis.

Our team focuses on being financially savvy, promoting science, engineering and technology in our community, and drawing students from multiple school districts to the FIRST experience. These goals are met by keeping a close eye on the team budget, giving sponsor presentations, and starting FIRST Lego League and Robotics teams in the local area. In order to ensure our business is successful, welcoming, and has a giving environment in which to learn, both at competitions and as a cooperative, the Fighting Pi donates time, money, and energy to charitable causes in hopes of strengthening bonds among team members, parents, volunteers, mentors, and sponsors.

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Rebound Rumble. is played by two competing Alliances on a flat, 27 x 54 foot field. Each Alliance consists of three robots. They compete to score as many basketballs into their hoops as they can during a 2 minute and 15 second match. The higher the hoop in which the basketball is scored, the more points the Alliance receives.

The match begins with a 15-second Hybrid Period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs. During this Hybrid Period, one robot on each Alliance may be controlled using a Microsoft Kinect. Baskets scored during this period are worth extra points. For the remainder of the match, drivers control robots and try to maximize their Alliance score by scoring as many baskets as possible.

The match ends with robots attempting to balance on bridges located at the middle of the field. In Qualification Matches, a robot from each Alliance will also try to balance on the white Coopertition bridge to score additional ranking points for each Alliance. Scoring for the match is summarized below.