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CNN FIRST Documentary

Last night, "Don't Fail Me: Education in America" aired on CNN. This documentary featured FIRST extremely heavily and Team 254 is featured in the final few minutes. If you're interested in watching it, it can be found on Youtube in 6 parts. Part one is here…

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St. Louis Result

If you haven't heard yet, we won World Championships. We were allied with teams 111 and 973, and after making it through the tough Galileo division, we went on to dominate through Einstein and take it all. We additionally won the Industrial Design award for…

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Hall of Fame Sent Out

Today, the hall of fame was sent out to the print shop for final printing. We have decided to go with a printed hall of fame display for increased portability and professionalism. Above is the final layout for the display. It will be printed on four 33" wide…

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VEX World Championship

A large delegation from Team 254 traveled to Orlando today for the VEX Robotics World Championship. Follow the action at robotevents.com with live webcasts and score updates from all of the divisions. Teams 254A, 254B, 254D, 254E and 254H will be competing.

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Minibot Ramp

Over the past week or so, we have been experimenting with a ramp-style minibot deployment. After taking inspiration from some other teams including our friends on The Pink Team, we have determined that this is a potentially much faster method of minibot…

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Shockwave Shipping Out

This weekend, several team members met at the lab to prepare Shockwave the T-Shirt Cannon for its upcoming appearances. Shockwave will be traveling to Orlando for next week's VEX world championship and to St. Louis for the FIRST World Chmpionship. In…

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Autonomous Improvements

Now that we are back at home with the practice robot, the programming team has had some time to make the one-tube autonomous routine faster and more reliable and also work on a two-tube routine. The autonomous tube hanging is so reliable that we have…

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