Team 2473:

The Goldstrikers

Cupertino Robotics FRC Team 2473, The Goldstrikers, is the competitive robotics team at Cupertino High School. Each year, our students design, build, and program an industrial-scale robot to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Through this experience, students gain real-world engineering, leadership, and teamwork skills while embracing FIRST’s core values of Gracious Professionalism® and Coopertition®.

Our team brings together students with diverse interests — from machining and software to business and outreach — creating a rich environment for learning, creativity, and impact.

Team Mission

At its heart, Team 2473 exists to:

  • Empower students through hands-on STEM learning

  • Build confident, capable future engineers and leaders

  • Foster collaboration, resilience, and innovation

  • Give back to the community through outreach and mentorship

What We Do

Every FRC season follows an exciting rhythm:

  1. Kickoff & Strategy
    The season begins in January with the FIRST challenge reveal. Students immediately begin analyzing the game, brainstorming strategies, and defining robot goals.

  2. Design & Prototyping
    Students use CAD tools to design mechanisms and test ideas quickly, exploring multiple paths before locking in a strategy.

  3. Build & Integrate
    Over two months, the team manufactures, assembles, and iterates on the robot. Electrical, software, and mechanical systems come together through daily collaboration.

  4. Test & Refine
    With drive practice, autonomous tuning, and alliance strategy sessions, the robot and team are battle-tested before competitions begin.

  5. Competitions
    We compete with teams across the region, showcasing our robot and learning from others while demonstrating teamwork and gracious professionalism.

Team Structure & Subteams

To succeed both on and off the field, the Goldstrikers are organized into student-led subteams, each with distinct roles and responsibilities:

🔧 Hardware

Designs and builds the physical robot structure and mechanisms. Students learn machining, fabrication, assembly, and system integration. Hardware is further divided into Design and Manufacturing subteams, allowing students to sharpen certain skills through additional specificity.

💻 Software

Programs robot systems including teleoperated control, autonomous routines, sensor integration, and dashboard tools.

🔌 Electrical

Designs and implements wiring, power distribution, and control systems, ensuring the robot runs reliably and safely.

📣 Business & Outreach

Supports the team through fundraising, sponsorship communication, media, community events, and mentoring younger students.

🎥 Awards, Media & PR

Creates our social media presence, team videos, photography, and year-end recap materials to tell the story of the team and the season.