This month, we held a Sponsor Open House. Over the course of this Open House we gave a presentation to the sponsors about our team, we gave them a tour of our shop, and they drove our robot, Eurydice, from last season. We are also preparing for a local competition called MinneTrials, taking place on the 8th of December. MinneTrials is still a bit away, and the new build students are hard at work building the robot.

NoMythic participated in an annual one-day off-season competition called TWIST this year. At TWIST, every team is required to have a girls-only drive team. Our team ended up bringing an almost entirely female presenting group of students to this competition and since TWIST is a more laid back competition, students that don’t normally have the opportunity to work on our robot in the pit or participate in drive team got to explore new areas of robotics. Our team ended up with an entirely new drive team, yet we were still the 7th alliance captain and finished at a tie for fifth in the playoffs. We had a lot of fun, and we plan to participate again next year!

We have also been working on improving our robot cart! The robot cart is used to move our robot around during competitions, but since our robot is so heavy especially when adding the weight of batteries and other supplies, we have been working on an improved design so we can better maneuver at competition. However, the robot cart is not the only thing being worked on, since programming is also hard at work on a limelight system. 

We would also like to extend our appreciation to our sponsor Improving IT for inviting our team to a screening of the third Venom movie! We had a great time!

Robotics is hard. We relish finding out how much each of us can bring – and how much we can do together.

We took the first steps to come together as a team this weekend. We traveled to a beautiful spot – a cabin by a lake in Wisconsin owned by the grandparents of a former team captain, who support us so well by lending us this spot to build our team.

We worked together, played together, set goals and expectations, and generally bonded as a group. What a gift of a weekend. It was also a blast!

NoMythic started April on a high note, when we went to our final Regional Robotics Competition of the year, the 10,000 Lakes competition in Minneapolis. This competition was an emotional rollercoaster for us as a team, and was filled with learning experiences and celebration. We started the playoffs by being chosen by 2502 Talon Robotics as the first pick in the second alliance and was later joined by 3100 Lighting Turtles. Our amazing drive team did a fantastic job maneuvering our robot, Eurydice, across the field!

The spirit and energy on our home turf was amazing and the air was filled with “24” “91” cheers. A whole season of engineering and innovation ended with us winning the Industrial Design Award, which recognizes our team’s professional design process! Our robot performed very well in the playoffs tough due to a few snafus, our alliance ended the competition in seventh place. Although we didn’t qualify for the World Championship, we still came out of the weekend excited for our next competition, the Minnesota State Championship. Right as we were ready to leave the arena, our team captain Liam was honored with the Dean’s List Finalist Award. We are so proud of him and glad he got the recognition he deserves!

February has been filled with fantastic experiences and significant achievements for NoMythic. We kicked off the month with two different team bonding events: our board game night, where we also beaded bracelets for the FRC-SWIFT initiative, and our movie night right after practice, where we got snacks and got cozy watching a movie together. However, we not only focused on community building within our own team, we also hosted our annual bumper workshop for other robotics teams in the Twin City area. This event allows us to expand our horizons and strengthen our connections, while helping other teams with an essential part of their robots.

In addition to our community and team building events, we focused on getting ready for The Northern Light Regional competition! We finished our sponsor panel for both the robot and our team shirts, ensuring that we can show off our incredible sponsors at the competition. We also went to a practice competition called Week 0 held by KnightKrawler. It was a lot of fun, and the drive team had the opportunity to test our robots, Eurydice and Orphues.

This month, NoMythic went to our first regional competition, Northern Lights Regional, in Duluth! Our fantastic drive team did an absolutely amazing job driving our robot, Eurydice, and our pit team was inspirational in their work getting our robot ready for each match. Eurydice were positively whimsical when shooting notes into the speaker, and we had a climbing time of less than 10 seconds. We ended up on the second alliance in the playoffs with our friends from Ultraviolet and Otternots. But it didn’t stop there; we not only became the captain of the second alliance but also won second place!

The energy from our team and all of the other teams at this competition was fantastic and we had an amazing time. This energy also led to us winning the Team Spirit Award second year in a row, reflecting our team culture, passion and our cheerful contributions in the stands. All in all, we had the most amazing time, where we as a team showed what we are capable of not only as a team but as a community. 

And we are already preparing and looking forward to our next competition in Minneapolis!