Category: Older Classes

Today was the first meeting after the build season kickoff, and we’ve launched into a flurry of activity. The build team, having the details of this year’s challenge, has divided into subgroups based on the various engineering challenges presented by the new course. One  such group is working on the robot’s self-lifting mechanism, and are…

Today, we advanced several of the projects we began last weekend. The build team finished constructing the table and sanded it, and organized the shelves. The electrical team constructed the bottom of the robot, attached the electronics board to a wheel setup, worked on wiring it up, and then bolted the whole thing together. This…

We spent this meeting in a whirlwind of activity gearing up for the January build season. The build team prepared for the season by setting up a new drive station, dividing into teams, organizing their work space, setting up tables for later on. The new tables will be especially helpful; the ones we’d been using…

We have done a myriad of things this week. Our business team has continued working on creating the video required as part of the chairman’s award. That includes planning, preparing and conducting interviews. We interviewed lots of team members and mentors as well as teachers and parents. The interviews are going very well, it’s great…

This week has been incredibly productive in terms of building and programming. Our build team finished our chassis, and a team has been working on building our elevator. The programming team has been working out all of the bugs within our code. Thanks to them, we have a robot that actually runs! We were all…

We spent this week workshopping the issues we had in the design we had created on Kickoff. The lift that we had thought would be used on our robot had too many moving parts, and seeing as we wanted to minimize the risk of disaster, we needed to change the lift. A few of our…

We are really looking forward to hosting Dover Shockwave from Dover High School and The RoboSaints from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School for a season kick-off party on January 7th at New Heights. We will have food and fun activities along with a live stream of the challenge release!  New Heights is located at 100…