Wigginz
This is Wigginz, our 2013 Ultimate Ascent robot. He started off as just a concept, but Dark Matter brought him to life and turned him into the competitive robot he is today.
Ultimate Ascent
This year's FRC competition is Ultimate Ascent, the objective of which is to gather and shoot frisbees into targets. The second objective is to climb a 3-level metal pyramid.
Dark Matter
An FRC team in San Jose California, Dark Matter is comprised of students from Santa Teresa High School. Every year we compete in the FRC competition and learn new skills along the way.
About the Team
Dark Matter is an FRC team in San Jose, California. Founded in 2008, Dark Matter builds a robot every year to compete in the annual FRC game. This year the game is Ultimate Ascent, the goal of which is to accurately shoot frisbees into goals and to climb a metal pyramid. Dark Matter has had a tremendous improvement, going from a team that placed last at an FRC competition to a team that got into the final round at CVR.
Our Goal
The goal of Dark Matter is to spread the interest of science and engineering throughout our community and to prepare students for their future careers. Everyday, all of our members learn real life skills such as engineering, time management, and software development. These skills have applications even outside of robotics.
FIRST
FIRST is the organization that makes all this possible for us and thousands of other teams.

FIRST has the same goal as us, to teach real life skills to students, but does it on a much larger scale.
Our History
Dark Matter started with Gunderson High School in 2002. Santa Teresa High School joined Gunderson in 2005, making the Grizzly Saints. In 2007, we participated in our first FIRST Robotics Competition. In the 2010/2011 season, we changed our name to Dark Matter.

Everything costs money, especially robots. We would like to thank our sponsors for their financial assistance.

We will be attending CalGames 2013. It will be on October 4-5th at Fremont High School. It will be hosted by team 3501, the Firebirds.

Dark Matter had its end of the year swim party on Sunday, May 19th at the Rancho Santa Teresa Swim and Racquet Club. This officially marks the end of a great year, and we hope all of our members have a good summer.