---
title: FRC Team 254
team:
  type: FRC
  number: 254
  name: The Cheesy Poofs
  rookie_year: 1999
  location: San Jose, California, USA
  sponsors:
  - NASA Ames Research Center
  - Apple
  - Google
  - Innovation First International
  - Analog Devices
  - AMEX Plating
  - BAE Systems
  - The Wong Family
  - Brin Wojcicki Foundation
  - Lockheed Martin
  - West Coast Products
  - Qualcomm
  - Intuitive Surgical
  - Cisco
  - Gilbert Spray Coat
  - Applied Welding
  - Dropbox
  - Orange Vise Company
  - Four-D Metal Finishing
  - Vivid-Hosting
  - Bellarmine College Preparatory
  links:
    Website: https://www.team254.com
    GitHub: https://github.com/Team254
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/team254robotics
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/team254
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/254cheesypoofs
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/team254
robot_code:
  2011:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2011
    - C++
  2012:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2012
    - C++
  2013:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2013
    - Java
  2014:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2014
    - Java
  2015:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2015
    - Java
  2016:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2016-Public
    - Java
  2017:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2017-Public
    - C++
  2018:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2018-Public
    - Java
  2019:
  - Robot:
    - https://github.com/Team254/FRC-2019-Public
    - Java
---

The **Cheesy Poofs** are a FIRST Robotics team from San Jose, California. They are a member of the FIRST Hall of Fame. They are well known for their consistently high level of performance, as well as for their many side projects.

## History

The NASA ARC Robotics Team, the Cheesy Poofs, competes in the FIRST robotics competition as Team 254\. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a national organization that focuses on inspiring students about math and science. FIRST (www.usfirst.org), among other things, runs a national robotics competition; this competition involves students, adults, and engineers in the challenging and multifaceted robot design and construction process.

The Cheesy Poofs Robotics Team, 254, has evolved over the past seven years from the smallest program in the country in 1999, at a struggling high school, to a large program based at the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC). While the team's student members have changed, the Cheesy Poofs have continued to flourish.

From the modest beginning of Team 254 in the fall of 1998, NASA engineers Bob Holmes and Steve Kyramarios joined teacher Jason Morrella in exciting students about robotics and about teamwork. This spirit of team work continues today, in spite of the downsizing of Broadway high school, to the subsequent transfer of the program to Bellarmine College Preparatory in the fall of 2000, to what it has evolved to here in 2009\. With the support of mentors and teachers Cory McBride, EJ Sabathia, Travis Covington, Kirk Oden, Jakub Fierdovicz, Rob Janke, and Jim Urhausen, as well as additional volunteers, we are looking forward to a great year.

In the past, 254 has started numerous teams on the West Coast and has collaborated with teams 22, 60 and 968.

## Robots

- Cartman - 1999
- Rocky - 2000
- Holmz - 2001
- Ecko - 2002
- Mario - 2003
- The Bionic Poof - 2004
- Kara - 2005
- Black Knight - 2006
- Raptor - 2007
- Barricade - 2008
- Devastator - 2009
- Onslaught - 2010
- Slipstream - 2011
- Skyfire - 2012
- Overkill - 2013
- Barrage - 2014
- Deadlift - 2015
- Dropshot - 2016
- Misfire - 2017
- Lockdown - 2018
- Backlash - 2019