Following a sports model, we are a team of 10 students from grades 7-12 challenged to design, build, program, and operate a robot entirely of our own design to play a floor game against 10+ teams from around Southeast Alaska. If we do well enough at regionals, then we progress on to the Alaska championship against the 50+ top teams (which we have done 3 times). There are also Pacific Northwest, National and International championships, but we haven't got there yet :-) It's a lot of fun, but it also develops our engineering skills and teaches us the value of hard work, innovation, sharing ideas, and building success out of failure.
For the 2017-2018 season:
- About the Relic Recovery game: http://www.firstinspires.org/node/3616
- Robotics Engineering pre-season training: July 31 - Aug 4, Thunder Mountain High School, Juneau. Build skills in 3d design and printing, programming in Android Studio, and general engineering design process.
- Region V qualifier: December 15-16, Alumni Gym, Hoonah Secondary School, Hoonah. Mark your calendars - Regionals only comes to Hoonah every 5+ years!
- State Invitational Championship: January 27, University of Alaska - Anchorage, Alaska Airlines Center
Our weekly practice schedule from 3:30 - 5:00 (Friday 2:30 - 4:00):
- Monday: Entire team meets to strategize and design for our robot.
- Tuesday: Modelers meet to develop robot parts (CAD) and print them to the 3d printer
- Wednesday: Builders meet to develop skills in mechanics and electronics, then work on and test our team's robot
- Thursday: Programmers & Drivers meet to develop skills in Android App programming, then work on and test our team's robot
- Friday: Entire team meets to work and practice together on all tasks!
Solving a programming problem.
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Our team taking a break during Regionals to make robot repairs.
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Building in our high school woodshop.
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