Prototyping continued this week with the team working on different projects to learn skills that will be combined to build one robot during build season. On Thursday, a group worked on the test frame. The wheels are on and the Spikes have been mounted. We are waiting on a new part that we ordered to  [ Read More ]

I could not be at the meeting on Thursday (Nov. 7th), so mentor Zach wrote this up for the blog: On Thursday, we had a small crew and finished prototyping some ball shooter mechanisms. Nick and Ricky worked on the multi shooter, Carter and Evan worked on the Colson shooter, and Corey and Alan finished  [ Read More ]

Since we have several new members, the Gearheads decided to run a mock Kick-Off this week. We used 2017, Steamworks, a favorite of our Coach. We had the students watch the game reveal video a couple of times so that they understood the nature of the game. We began by discussing the pros and cons  [ Read More ]