This year, our first district event was the Walker Warren event held at Walker Warren high school in Indy. Our team made it all the way to the alliance selections and was then picked by the first seeded* team. After alliance selection ended, our alliance made through all of the finals and, in …
This week has been full of robot modifications and testing, but one of our team members has been training the next generation to be engineers. Our team encourages girls to become engineers and scientists in the growing field of STEM careers. Here we see one of our team’s girls teaching a young girl how to …
This Saturday our team attended Scrimmage, an event hosted by the team 1741 Red Alert. The drive team practiced driving the robot while the programmers worked the kinks out of the code. We talked with the other teams to see what strategies they chose. There were many different designs and approaches that were very …
As we begin Week 2 of build season here at PhyXTGears, everyone kicks things into high gear. The animation team, whose current focus this month was 2016 Safety Animation. Everyone worked tirelessly. Here’s the final product. The machine room has been buzzing tonight. Chris has been working on building the shooting mechanism for the boulders in …
Today in the computer room, one of our mentors, Jordan, and the animation team began filming the parody video with a student acting for test shots. Also, they continued brainstorming for the safety animation video. In the machine room, a student and mentor finished a …