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Day 53: Rain Won’t Stop Our Excitement and Preparation for Madera

Co-Authored by Tyler Cuff and Robert Lim Testing The day began with students and the drive team practicing and troubleshooting the robot. The drive team traversed the field and practicing scoring goals as quickly as possible. After Skystalker, the surrogate…

Day 52: Continuing Competition Preparation

Mentor Profile: Paul Ventimiglia

This year we have had the unique privilege of working with some new and awesome mentors. Over the next few weeks, we will be giving them the opportunity to talk about how FIRST has affected them. Name: Paul Ventimiglia College/Major: Worcester Polytechnic…

Day 50: More Pre-Comp Preparations

Driver Practice Today, students continued to practice driving the robot on the field. Obstacles were set up on the field earlier in the day to test the new drivers’ capabilities.Later, students practiced driving with other students in the human player…

Day 49: Chairman's and Driver Practice

Chairman's Award Today students brainstormed and storyboarded the 2014 Chairman's Award Video. This video is required with all Chairman's entries and the winning team's video is shown at the end of each tournament. Also, another group continued work no a…

Day 48: Organization and Writing

by Matt MacDonald '17 Assembly Today, students worked on replumbing the locking pistons on the practice robot to make sure it functions to the best of its ability. Organization The team also organized the Box of Pat. Students cleaned out the case and made…

Day 46: Bag and Tag

by Chris Powers '15 Photo Shoot Today was bag and tag day, so not much machining or robot work occurred. Most of the team worked on taking multiple shots of the finished competition robot, which was placed in a studio area on one half of the field. The team…

Day 45: Home Stretch

by Dorian Chan and Abhishek Aditham Programming Today the programmers worked on state machines for the shooter on the robot. They have been using state machines for various subsystems on the robot in order to control and interact with them. State machines…