It’s finally come! #Stronghold has arrived and it looks like the anticipation was not in vain… it looks AWESOME! We were excited to help host the Dallas kickoff event with Texas Instrument’s support, and be able to hang out with 24 other awesome Dallas teams for the day. Peter Balyta, President of TI Ed. Tech […]
5 days 7 hours . . . . 4 days 7 hours . . . . 3 days 7 hours . . . . A countdown to the end of build season was written in LARGE letters on the white board every day we walked in to keep everyone focused on how precious little time
We entered week 6 behind schedule and had no option but to hit the ground running and bring all hands on deck. Just as the week before, the decision was made to come in every day of the week to ensure we could complete our awesome robot! However – being dedicated and focused doesn’t mean
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
