Busy Hands Off-Season

Students here have been hard at work today in the build and computer rooms. Things they have been doing include attaching to a sand blaster and creating hinges in an animation program called inventor. The team continues to make progress during the off-season.  

Walker Warren District Event 2016

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 …

2016 Indy Scrimmage

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 …

Build Week Six Is Coming On Strong

This week our robot has successfully crossed barriers and is working on the climbing. Our practice robot is right up there with it, as it achieves its goals. The programmers are building the basic code to cover the robot’s necessities for now.     With a few modifications our robot is slowly being perfected. The …

Things are Coming Together in Build Week Five

  This week the build team has the robot almost finished while the animation team works on an animation for the 2016 Dave Lavery Animation Award. The programming team is preparing for a long stretch ahead, as the media them polishes the website. Our team looks forward to the competitions ahead. Here’s a huge thanks …