NoMythic is nearing the start of our 4th week of competition season, and the clock is ticking! We’re hard at work on our robot, with a big CAD (Computer Assisted Design) push happening this week. After our CAD is complete, we’ll begin working on constructing our bot. We use CAD to design our mechanics before we build them so that we can work out any difficulties before we get too far into the construction. Our programming team is locking in the code we’ll be using, and our strategy team is creating the best method for the best results. 

Strategy is also working on constructing our scouting system– a carefully constructed system for reviewing other robots in order to determine the ones that would compliment us best in an alliance. Finally, our operations team is working on collecting donations, fundraising, contacting sponsors, and all other managerial processes. We’re so excited to see the gameplay, and we hope you are too!

We hope to see you cheering us on in the stands for our upcoming competition in Duluth, MN! The Northern Lights Competition will be held from March 4th to March 7th, and NoMythic will be participating, along with our beautiful purple robot! If you are unable to attend the competition, you are also welcome to support us by offering donations or meals, or reaching out to ask what you can do! We hope to see you there!

Speaking of places we hope you’ll be…NoMythic is once again hosting our yearly Chipotle Fundraiser! Our Chipotle Fundraiser is a partnership between our team and Chipotle where for one day a year, when people buy meals from them, they will donate the profits to our team. When you visit the Chipotle on 2720 Lincoln Drive on March 16th between 5pm and 9pm, your order will financially support NoMythic, as well as be a delicious treat.

Much love,

2491 NoMythic

Hello Mythical Friends and Family,

We are digging into our work with FIRST Age, an archaeological theme for robotics this year. Our team has been super excited about this year’s game and is now hard at work coming up with ideas for a robot!

During this game there are two alliances each made up of three teams. On the field each alliance has a hub where their goal is to score as much fuel as possible. In the middle of the field is the neutral zone which has available fuel on the ground. During the first 20 seconds of the match the robots are in autonomous mode. Both hubs are activated and the robots run a pre-programmed code to either score fuel or use the climbing structure. Robots can collect fuel from various places, the depot on the ground, the human player outpost from a feeder intake, or the neutral zone. But to get into the neutral zone they must either cross over a bump or duck under a bar. Human players also have an exciting job this year as they can throw fuel from the outpost into the hub! For the last two minutes and 20 seconds of the match the robots go into tele-op mode where the drive team takes control and the remaining time is split into six shifts. The first shift is the transition shift where both hubs are activated for ten seconds. Then, there are four alliance shifts split into 25 seconds each. During these shifts the alliances take turns having one of their hubs active while the other hub is inactive. Finally the last shift is the end game, both hubs become active and the robots can return to their towers and climb to earn more points. If you want to watch the game animation in action you can click here!

After studying this awesome game reveal, the build, programming, and strategy team have been working together to build awesome robot profiles. They use these different robot profiles to play the robot paper game. This game functions as a robotics role-playing game where we get to feel the flow of the game and test out different robot profiles. These profiles help show what robot profiles will work best. Finally after prototyping different parts such as possible shooters or intake systems, a final decision is made!

As we continue prototyping and working on our robot, we can’t wait to compete this year! With our first competition only about six weeks away we have been busy. And if you’d like to cheer us on at our first competition, we would love to have you on March 4-7th at DECC Arena, Center 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth, MN. Thank you for reading, we look forward to writing to you next week!

Hey Mythical Friends and Family,

We appreciate our community taking the time to celebrate with us earlier this week! We had a good time talking with you and made a lot of great memories, and as always getting to share the excitement that we have about robotics was a blast!

We had tons of questions about this year’s game, and where to find info surrounding it. Our team has been hard at work coming up with amazing ideas for our robot in the coming season, if you want to know more about this year’s game, attached to this will be the game reveal and game manual for the upcoming season! 

This year’s game FIRST Rebuilt is super interesting as (thematically) it builds on previous year’s games. In this game teams will be scoring with a game piece called Fuel, which is a direct parallel to FIRST Steamworks in 2017! Many other things are taken from other games such as the climbing structure from FIRST Stronghold, or the game piece funnels from FIRST RapidReact! All of this is re-building up to look like a great season ahead!

What our team thinks about this year’s game:

“It is the game that our team needed! Our team has historically always been more successful in shooter games. This game is also more simple build wise which will allow us to better leverage the strength of our programming team during the coming season.”

-Dyllan mcDonald, Build Student.

“I personally havent ever seen scoring shifts for alliances which opens interesting strategic pathways for robot design.”

-Simone Lee, Build student.

“I find it very interesting how this game incorporates its title into its theming by using previous years game elements”

-Lio Nunez, Operations captain.

“I really dig *wink* the way the game has an archeology theme.”

-Nyx Turner, Events and Scouting lead 

We won the 10,000 Lakes Regional Tournament along with our awesome alliance captain 8570 Binary Bots, and partners 3891 Rodeo Robotics! It was a heroic climb out of the lower bracket of the double elimination tournament, which ended in our decisive victory for our second seed alliance. We also picked up the Gracious Professionalism award for our work in creating welcoming spaces in and around our team.

Next up, Houston! We will be traveling down to the George R. Brown Convention Center for the World Championship in two weeks time, and need your help to get there. Please share our campaign with family, friends, and your networks to propel us to our next competition.

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