Today we got most of the initial robot design finished. When the design is finished ( probably within the next week) The mechanical and wiring teams can start work. Today Field Mock-up also made a lot of progress and is almost complete making our practice field. Business has started planning advertising techniques for our annual Spaghetti dinner, starting to work on flyers and other media.

Today marks the first day of the 2019 FRC build season!
After watching the challenge video two times over, we split up into our sub teams and started working. We quickly set up a design and field mock-up team who will start designing the robot and our practice field.

Here is the 2019 challenge video  

After our gift wrapping station at Mod Shop last weekend, we are now spending the last days before our competitions finishing up both the robot and the Engineering notebook that we will present to the judges.

Our competitions are scheduled to take place on December 1st in Fresno and December 15th in Alameda. 

As our annual FLL tournament rolled around, we prepared by assigning roles to team members and setting up the tournament area and pits.

Aftermath: The tournament turned out to be a big success, hosting 8 excited teams in our gym. We were able to keep the kids engaged in the competition while still allowing them to be focused in the competition.  

So far in this season, we have made progress in business, building, and programming. 

In business, we have created new team logos, worked on our team outreach events, and made plans to lead our team into the future.We started the Engineering Notebook got members started on recording this season's progress.

The programming team started by teaching new members Java, and later started brainstorming ideas of the autonomous period of the robot.

The engineering team started by creating the first plan for the robot considering weight, robot control, and robot productivity. While waiting for parts to arrive for the bot, our plan has been revised and edited.

.The new FTC season bring new team names and logos to what where the Duckinators and the Iron Ducks. Our two teams, The Platinum Patriots ( #4157) and The Titanium Patriots ( #5211) each have new captains and a new list of members ready to start the season.

Starting this post, we are now already a few weeks into build season having had been working on our robot for some time now. This will be the first post of many that will describe our season, starting from November 11th, 2018.

The build season has been completed and this is the first year in our existence that we've actually had time to practice with the robot! It took all our efforts to build the robot, as well as to assemble the components that accompany it, including the programming, mock-ups, and team award nominations and presentations. We cannot thank every member, teacher, and mentor enough for all their hard work and dedication. Good luck teams! See you all at Sac!



(See you boys in Boise!)

Our Spaghetti Dinner is approaching soon in order to help fund the services and facilities within our Robotics Program. Many amenities are being finished including the brackets for the bumpers of the robot that display our team color during the competition, in order for them to be attached to the robot. The programming team has made much progress in allowing the robot to move around the arena. The wiring has mostly been finished, and final adjustments are being made to the robot, such as the weight of the bot.

Our robot was able to accomplish climbing the bar! Our programming team progressed much with the path finding programs and robot sensors. The Business team finished compiling and editing the Chairman's video, and assembled the Woodie Flowers award essay for our own Jack Benenati.

Everyone is super excited that we figured out how to work the powder coating and the plasma cutter!