2017 Team Video!
We do more than robots. We build learners and explores.
We do more than robots. We build learners and explores.
We arrived at the Northern Lights competition in Duluth on Wednesday night, with 23 students, 5 mentors and two robots. Our competition bot – Watt – performed beautifully and got lots of complements. Our team played hard, swiftly moving gears across the field and climbing the rope to board the airship. We finished 13th –…
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…
We just got back from the Minneapolis North Star competition, and have a lot to report! We worked with The Robettes, Windchill, and Technocrats on scouting the competition, gathering valuable data. Meanwhile in the pit, the robot’s reliability and rigidity was being continuously improved by battle-testing it during the matches, where our drive team was…
On Saturday, the 7th of 2017, the new game, FIRST Steamworks, was released and explained in full detail to participating teams! We, along with multiple other St. Paul-based teams, attended Kickoff at Central High School. This year’s game involves gathering resources to prepare an airship for liftoff. After viewing the game’s animation and reading the…
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…
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?…