Alpha+ Team Updates

2022 Week 5 Update

By Grace Hopkins / February 13, 2022

So here we are again, at the end of the week with plenty of beans to spill. Our week ended with much excitement and anticipation for a built robot. During the week, we began CNCing parts, but ran into some technical difficulties. On Friday, we worked primarily on troubleshooting those issues and eventually worked out […]

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2022 Week 4 Update

By Grace Hopkins / February 12, 2022

One month done! Spirits on the team have been high despite circumstances that have temporarily slowed us down. Design and build continue to work hand in hand on CADing our robot, they have approximately 90% done and we all look forward to building. Design is also working diligently on designing our launcher turret as well […]

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2022 Week 3 Update

By Grace Hopkins / January 29, 2022

Another week done! The third week of build season brought us closer to competition. This week the build team worked on designing the robot fully in CAD, allowing us to have all of our design plans completed. We finalized the designs for the intake, launcher, and chassis perimeter prototypes.The mock hanger was finished this week, […]

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2022 Week 2 Update

By Grace Hopkins / January 29, 2022

Today marks the end of our second week of build season. The team has been working diligently these last seven days to prepare ourselves for competition. After receiving our new Falcon motors, we replaced the Neos in our swerve drive to make it more powerful. We researched the best way to wire our new encoders […]

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2022 Week 1 Update

By Grace Hopkins / January 29, 2022

After this year’s game, Rapid React, was revealed last Saturday, our team has experienced a thrilling first week. We got started right away brainstorming different ways to take on the challenges of the game. Our build and electrical teams got the flat bot put together and ready for the programming team to work with. The […]

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2021 Updates

By Kaylee McCabe / October 22, 2021

Over the last year, our team has experienced an interesting fifteenth season. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, our team competed virtually. This included different skill competitions, where students used the robot to complete challenges. We submitted a Chairman’s award application, participated in the innovation challenge, as well as the game design challenge. Our team also had […]

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2020 Build Season Week 10

By Grace Hopkins / March 14, 2020

At the beginning of Week 10, we completed building our robot and we were finally allowing the programmers some much-awaited bot time. We were preparing to leave for our Idaho Regional in two weeks, but, due to the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, FIRST canceled all regional events as well as the Worlds Competitions. […]

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2020 Build Season Week 9

By Kaylee McCabe / March 7, 2020

Our team accomplished several tasks during week nine. As competition approaches our build team has worked to finalize the robot. The electrical team finished wiring the robot. The build team finished and mounted our climbing mechanism, in preparation for testing this system. Our intake mechanism was mounted and tested, and found it to be very […]

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2020 Build Season Week 8

By Kaylee McCabe / February 29, 2020

Week eight has commenced. Our electrical team worked on wiring the proximity sensors, mounting our belly pan. The electrical team also worked on teaching newer members how to solder. The build team continued working on perfecting the intake system, as well as mounting the color wheel design. The color wheel design was also put into […]

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2020 Build Season Week 7

By Grace Hopkins / February 22, 2020

Week seven has concluded. Our electrical team has continued wiring our belly pan. Our build team has figured out how to stop the power cells from flowing freely. The build and design team have worked on the floor intake, and finished the ball holder flaps. The build team also worked on the bumper base, and […]

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