Some team members brought our new robot to the legislature on Monday to meet with Senator Melisa Franzen and other key policy makers for education and STEM. Our take-away – be persistent!
Robots in the Rotunda – February 26, 2018
MURA City-wide Practice Field
Our team visited the MURA practice field this week. Our drivers were able to do time trials on a fairly realistic field, and we got to visit with our friends at the Firebears and Ultraviolet. Thank you to Herobotics and others for organizing this space!
Week Six Update – February 10, 2018
So much is getting done! Right now Kelli, Sam, and Lex are working on bumpers (pictures 1 + 2); Ethan and Zo are milling pieces for the robot (pic 3); Nick and Emilio are working on the chassis (pic 4); Robert, Sean, and Brad are working on pneumatics (pic 5); Wesley, Lando, Connor, Anna, Elizabeth, Henry, Lukas, and Mark are all working on electronics (pic 6); and, last but not least, Alex and Noah are CADing (pic 7). Good work, teams!
Prototype Shooter – January 27, 2018
PowerUp is about power cubes, or milk crates. Who wants to shoot milk crates? Apparently – us!
Kickoff – FIRST Power Up – January 6, 2018
FIRST PowerUp is all about strategy. A retro video game collided with FIRST game developers, and came up with a crazy complicated game. We love it.
The first step was a bunch of quiet reading time to learn the rules.
Then small groups to figure out what those rules mean. How can we score points? Is there a way to guarantee a win? 
