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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NoMythic attended the Northern Lights Regional. We spent three days in the DECC arena, scouting, driving, programming and most importantly– cheering on our team. We had an amazing time at the competition and it was so inspiring to share that space with so many other incredible teams. NoMythic proudly won the Excellence in Engineering award and finished the competition in 3rd place. We’re working hard to rank even higher at our next competition, the 10,000 Lakes Regional Tournament in St. Paul!
Thank you so much for your support and we’re so happy to have you swimming along this journey with us.
January has been a very busy month for NoMythic. We started this month with the season kickoff! For those who haven’t seen the game animation and are curious, here’s the link: Reefscape FRC Game Animation. We are very excited to participate in Reefscape this year. Our team is ready to dive into building our robot and preparing for the escapades ahead.
For the first time, NoMythic invited our alumni to participate in kickoff with us! We had a fun waffle breakfast and a brainstorming session with our lovely alums after the livestream ended. We loved connecting with our past team members and building our connection with our community.
Our work for the new season has been going swimmingly. We have already finished prototyping, and we have sent our first round of parts to be manufactured! Our programming team has been making code to allow our robot to interact with different elements of Reefscape, and Operations has been continuing our work on our impact award submission, and preparing for events coming up in spring.
On December 8th, NoMythic went to MinneTrials. This is a competition where our first years get the opportunity to build, program, and then drive the robot they created in the competition.
This competition was a magical experience and it truly couldn’t have been done without all the people that helped out whether it be by building the robot, programming it, fundraising for it, or just cheering us on.
During this year’s MinneTrials our robot (cleverly named Volley) performed incredibly well. Starting off in the qualifications we did very well, winning almost every match we participated in, and overall placing 2nd highest in ranking points, while Ultraviolet took first place. Then once qualifications were over we moved on into alliances, and got picked by Ultraviolet. They were really awesome, and everyone I met on their team was so nice. In the end we were the number one alliance, winning the competition. This was such a wonderful experience, as we watched our robots’ magnificent auto, cheered each other on, and overall had an amazing time.
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!
