Last year FIRST suprised it’s teams by announcing the name of the games in all 4 of it’s programs at the Championships ceremonies in Houston. The games also had a common theme (FIRST Launch). This year they repeated that strategy by announcing the game names and the common theme. They have not given many details, [ Read More ]
After a couple of weeks to rest up, and for our students to get caught up on their homework, the Gearheads met this week to plan for the next few months. We have a fairly busy late spring and summer planned. Our next big project is to build a showbot for parades, assemblies, and similar [ Read More ]
The Gearheads competed at our annual regional competition in Williams Arena on Mar. 28-30. The team competed with 62 other teams. We are proud to share with our followers that we ranked as high as 6th and finished qualification matches ranked 12th. We were selected by the 8th ranked alliance to play on their alliance. [ Read More ]
The Gearheads finished our practice day today with plenty of opportunities to gain on the field practice for the drive team. We won our first match, and were able to start on level 2 of the hab, which is worth a couple of extra points. We were also able to pick up hatch panels that [ Read More ]
This week the Gearheads will pack up our robot, tool box and carts and head to the University of Minnesota for our competition at Williams Arena. We leave Wednesday and set up the pit, Thursday we will compete in practice matches, Friday and Saturday morning will be the qualification matches. Friday afternoon will be the [ Read More ]
They say that a picture is worth 1000 words, so this week we are giving you 3 pictures (3000 words) plus a few more to spare. We added a rail to our cart to hold our bumpers. We are also installed some new robot supports. We made some improvements to our drivers station. We also [ Read More ]
On Monday the team received our new button press. Natalie, Hannah, and Kaylin, with the help of Barb, got a good head start on the buttons for the regional. We also mounted our hatch pickup device to our practice bot and pre-wired it so it will be easy to affix it to the competition robot. [ Read More ]
This week the team wired up the testbot chassis to test out our floor pick up mechanism. It will be part of our 30 lbs. that we can add to our robot at competition. We hope to pick up some of the hatch panels that other teams drop on the field. Above a picture of [ Read More ]
