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Saturday Build Session

2/8/2020

The Final Week of Build season has started! The competition robot is going through the trial and error phase with programming and some help was needed by Coach Burdette . Mechanics and CAD are putting together the field in a large classroom for the Competition Robot to practice climbing and shooting. Chairman’s presented the essay answers to the team which provides the entire team with answers for any questions that the Judge asks. The whole team is working relentlessly to be ready for the competition season!

Wednesday Build Session

2/5/2020

Week five is underway! The competition robot is completely built, now the programming team is working their magic of the robot driving, the shooter, the conveyor and the intake. CAD and Mechanics are working together to rewire the robot after some technical difficulties. Chairman’s is hard at work for the final product of the video since the essay has been submitted and the presenters are rehearsing the presentation for the Judges. They will be doing a practice presentation in front of the team to have everyone informed on Saturday. Recently, our subteam captains have nominated our fantastic coach, Mr. Burdette, for the Woodie Flowers Award. This award recognizes an individual who has done an outstanding job of motivation through communication while also challenging the students to be clear in their communications.

Wednesday Build Session

1/29/2020

Week four has been very busy with the near completion of the final robot. Thanks to our sponsors at Bowers Aluminium Anodizing, the metal on the robot is now matte black. The matte black metal with the power pink looks amazing. The programming team is assembling the electronics board to fit on the robot. CAD has finished the 3-D design for the robot and has migrated over to the mechanics team to assist with the final build of the robot. Chairman’s is hard at work with the video and the presentation. The team is working well together by intermixing sub teams to help out others. The picture below shows a preview of the robot.

Wednesday Build Session

1/22/2020

It’s the middle of week three and the Chairman’s subteam is working on completing the essay and video submission. CAD team is completing the 3-D design of the robot. The Mechanics team is working on the final build of the elevator and intake system. While the elevator is being completed, our task for today is to secure the rope and mount it to our robot. Programming team is testing new things with the color sensors that will eventually work with autonomous. The various parts of the robot are being put together, and soon the final robot will be ready for competition season.

Saturday Build Session

1/18/2020

Week two has ended and week three is underway with much progress. CAD team is almost complete with full CADed Robot, Mechanics is beginning to starting to piece together parts of the robot, programming is prepping autonomous and teleop, and Chairman’s is close to being completed with the essay. The Red Rolling Cart of all of our supplies was well organized today.

Wednesday Build Season

1/15/2020

Another building week has begun! The prototypes are close to being finished and the real deal of building the final robot is close approaching. The CAD Team is relentlessly working on 3-D modeling the drivetrain, intake, shooter, conveyor, wheel spinner, elevator, and the skywalker for the first draft of the final robot. The Mechanics team is excited to install our New Falcon 500 motors into the gearboxes, Controls begin to layout the autonomous modes, and Chairmans is documenting all prototypes and the Chairmans Essay.

Saturday Build Session

1/11/2020

The first week of build season is almost complete. Throughout the week, the team has been hard at work on their prototypes for the future robot. The prototypes are being tested on the wonderfully built remakes of the trench wheel and the power port. The trench wheel and power port are being built by our gracious mentors, wonderful parents, and our fantastic coach. The days have been filled with lots of failures, success, tweaks and relentlessness.

Wednesday Build Session

1/8/2020

Today we are on day two of prototyping different types of intake systems. Our team split up into 5 groups to make prototype visuals of what our robot could look like in the future. We had an intake group, conveyor belt group, wheel spinner group, climber group, and elevation group. Today also consisted of Chairman’s organizing files to prepare for writing our essay and begin filming the video portion.

2020 FRC Kick-Off

1/4/2020

Today was our annual celebration of kick-off! After reading the game manual, we got into our sub-teams and made QFD (Quality Function Deployment) charts worth of prototypes to put all of our ideas for what would make a great robot for this competition season. With our new sponsorship from Bowers Aluminum Anodizing, we will now have a robot that will really pop out from the stands. We would like to thank our parents, sponsors, and mentors for helping us make 2020 a great start to the season.

CPR Training/Skills Camp #2

12/7/2019

Today was the second Skills Camp of the season. Recommended by our Safety Captain, Kevin Grady, 10 members, and 2 mentors spent the first half of the morning exploring and learning the ways of CPR. While they were becoming certified, the rest of the team was organizing and preparing for the build season. As the mechanics broke down the 2019 competition robot and organized all the small parts and equipment, we began testing a potential intake wheel makes the whole team (including Coach Burdette) ready for competition season.