The clock is ticking and we can all feel February 18th creeping closer and closer. There were a lot of things still to be done and not much time left to do them. The goal set out for the week was to get the competition bot driving and begin driver training and shooter practice. To […]
Week four began with a team meeting where we discussed some of the non-robot-building aspect of our season, including assisting students with scholarship applications and mentoring with any courses they may need. Before diving back into the work space the team held a students-only meeting to discuss which mentor they wanted to nominate for the Woody Flowers Finalist Award. After
Another week gone – another week closer to bag and tag day. So much work left, so precious little time. So let’s get right to it: One of Tuesday’s projects was re-cutting an old set of bumpers to fit our newly-built kit bot. Since we used the square-kit chassis specs that the awesome folks over at FRC3847 published for the kit
To kick off week two of build season we focused on making some good progress on upgrading our build space and machine shop. This included making table toppers for a handful of tables as well as constucting a mill cart from scratch. We’d like to give a huge ‘THANK YOU!’ to our friends FRC1817 RoboRaiders, and their mentor
Build season comes and goes in a blur – so we needed to get right to work to be ready for our first in-season meeting only three days away! After our kickoff day festivities wrapped up we headed over to team mentor Steve Smith’s humble abode for the first of many evening strategy meetings. We
Our team returned after the holiday break rested and ready for the new season. An early wake-up call on a Saturday was no problem and the team arrived eager to learn what challenge FRC had for us this year. (Though the promise of donuts and coffee certainly didn’t hurt.) With so many team members never
Our fourth meeting was held on October 31st, and we were excited to announce our roster for the Fall robotics club! The engineering challenge for this meeting was an old classic: Egg Drop! Students were provided a limited set of materials including cups, straws, string, tape, cardboard, and rubber bands. They created pods that would
Our third meeting occurred on October 24th and was the last of our ‘open-invitation’ meetings and the last chance for interested students to see what our team is about before application deadline day. We kicked off with another icebreaker as we had a handful of new faces since our initial meeting. The game involved a
We held our second team meeting on October 17th and its was again an ‘open-invitation’ event where any student could come and see what we are all about. The students were excited to see what they would be working on that day, so we kicked off with an introduction into our challenge: Straw Bridges. Mentors talked briefly about basic
We are FRC3005, The RoboChargers from Conrad High School! Our first meeting of the year was an ‘open-invitation’ affair where any student with interest, or just a curiosity, in robotics could stop in and learn what this team is all about. After reviewing some basic information about FIRST/FRC and briefly discussing our goals for this