Hi, y’all!

We’re in the middle of build season, and we have a Duluth competition coming up pretty soon! Our team has been working a lot to make sure we get to our first official competition of the year and have a lot to get done.

Our operations team has been preparing for Duluth and inventorying everything to make sure we have fun while the building team has been designing and building the robot and the whole team has been participating in big group discussions about where we want the robot to go. The team decided to make both a shooter and climber so part of the build team has been making a climber while the other part makes a shooter.

In addition to our teams working harder we’ve also been meeting more often, with meets three times a week. We also work together during extra practices that are normally just for building or programming, those are usually much smaller and get one or two tasks done. We have held a total of two extra practices which were really useful because we can focus more on specific parts of the robot like the drivetrain.

With the recent rise of the Omicron COVID variant we have been more diligent than ever to make sure we can keep the team safe. Everyone is required to wear specifically KF-94 or KN-95 masks, and we also have optional weekly testing on Tuesdays so that the next Tuesday the team can show proof that no one tests positive, and the team can keep functioning as usual!

-Nyx

Hello, all!

NoMythic just had its annual kickoff event, where we launched into build season and learned what we needed to know about the game this year. We decided to split this year’s kickoff into two parts, the first being on Saturday the 8th, and the second on the following Sunday.

We started off the day on Saturday by watching the kickoff video that explained the game. After that, we read over certain parts of the game manual to further understand the rules surrounding the game, field, and building requirements, and how you can score by shooting balls into different hoops or climbing up a set of bars (the higher it climbs, the more points your team gets,) and then met in small groups to talk about traits we would want for this season’s robot. Then, we played a game called the “Robot Paper Game” (or RPG) that allows players to build an imaginary robot that takes part in this season’s game to further understand the rules and what we want (and don’t want) for our robot this season.

On Sunday, we played another game of the RPG, then met as a team to talk about what we learned playing the Robot Paper Game and the strategies we gathered playing it. We then moved on to talking about what we want our robot this season to do, and decided that we want our robot to score high by focusing on climbing.

-Joseph

Back on the 4th of December, NoMythic participated in the Turtle Trials! The Turtle Trials are a mini competition between a few local teams to simulate the competition experience. Five teams competed in the Turtle Trials, with a total a total of seven different robots. It was a refreshing experience for our team, who up until this point, hadn’t attended an in-person competition in months! Here are some notable things from the competition:

• We got 5th place
• We were allied with one of the Lightning Turtles robots
• Everyone in NoMythic helped with field reset!
• New members practiced scouting matches
• We had a (mostly) functional robot
• We had set up the night before

With the rise in the cases, and the optional masks at the Fair, our team chose not to attend in person. But our robot attended! Friends took pictures so we know how well “Revolution” did this year.

Hello, all!

As we prepare for the end of the school year, as well as the end of the season, we at NoMythic are still working hard on the robot, the team, and the future of the team. Recently, we had our first STEM speaker presentation, where chemical biologist Andrea Steiger talked to us about biology and microorganisms. People enjoyed the presentation, and we are looking forward to our next one on Thursday, May 20th. 

With the end of the year coming closer, some of us are planning for an end of the year celebration to recognize the progress we’ve made this year, give compliments to our team members, and say goodbye to our seniors. While we are sad to see our graduating team members go, we are excited to see what they go on to achieve, and we are looking forward to welcoming new members onto the team. 

We have elected a new captain’s team to continue the work of leading the team forward. To keep the transition of captains smooth, the old and new team captains will be working together until the end of the season.

We are also looking forward to the FIRST upper midwest awards ceremony to see if any of the teams we know will be awarded for the work they do. Our team will gather outside to celebrate and watch the ceremony.

We have been working on robot runs for the state competition. We got the intake to work for the new challenges, and have had fun filming them together. We will submit them in a week, and are looking forward to the results.

In conclusion, we are excited for the end of the year, and proud of the work we are still putting into our robot and our team.