FIRST Team 1452: Omnicats was founded by a small group of students and teachers at Windward School in 2004. Since then, our FRC team has grown tremendously and so has the rest of our our school's robotics program. Over the course of our time as a team, we have also branched out and delved into other types of robotics such as VEX robotics, which we compete in during the FRC off season, and First Lego League robotics for middle school. These other competitions and types of robotics allow us to gain experience as a team and to mentor perspective students looking to join our robotics program. This mentorship is shown at it's peak when each year Windward's VEX and FRC team members volunteer at our First Lego League tournaments so we can help make these early robotics experiences more pleasant and help spark a hopefully lifelong interest in robotics.​​​​

Our motto, "Student Designed, Student Built." truly​ reflects the way things work around here. As our motto states, our students completely design and build our robot.  So far this year, at the Canadian Pacific Regional the team made it to quarterfinals and won the Gracious Professionalism Award, Pit Safety Award and were a runner-up for the Industrial Safety Award.  In 2018, the team won the Safety Award at the Utah Regional FRC and the Los Angeles Regional FRC, as well as making it to semifinals with Nerd Herd and Spartatronics.   In 2016, the team were finalists at the Los Angeles Regional FRC with teams 330: Beach Bots and 294: Beach Cities.  In 2010, the team won the Los Angeles Regional FRC with Team 1717 the D'Penguineers and team 330 the Beach Bots.  The team was awarded the Rookie Inspiration Award at the Los Angeles Regional FRC in 2004. We have also won various awards in other leagues and competitions like VEX and FLL.​