News, events, and updates from Team 254.
The animation team began making a game for this year's vex animation challenge. The rules of the animation challenge are: http://forum.robotevents.com/design/challenge/detail/94 Here are the rules to our game: http://team254.com/images/stories/the%20field.png…
Read postThis past weekend, the Bellarmine Robotics Team 254 once again stretched itself to the limit, entering two separate tournaments 3,000 miles apart. At Fairfield, CA, 4 Bellarmine VEX Robotics teams competed in the 2nd annual Vanden High VEX Regional, waking up…
Read postLast week a meeting was scheduled for Thursday, but not enough people showed up, so it didn't happen. I have personally contacted everyone on the team to remind them of their assignments and the meetings.
Read postChairman's We have finished writing the prompts. Our efforts now are focussed on the Main Essay that we will be submitting as part of the application. We are also working on the story board for the movie portion of the submission. If anyone has a video camera…
Read postToday was Team 254's first of three CAD Fridays. After a fun team lunch, we had over twenty team members come together at the NASA lab to learn CAD skills. We started out with an introduction to SolidWorks and went into some of the skills used in basic…
Read postAfter a strong few months of programming, the Zero Robotics team draws the season to an end. At the last competition, which took place at MIT on Friday the 12th, BCP Zero Robotics placed 3rd out of 8 teams in our bracket, but placed 11th out of the entire 24…
Read postJohnathan Chang worked on the opening scene of the Saftey Animation. Ryan Barekat finished the textures used on the main character's model. Erik Anderson is composing the score for the animation.
Read postFor the week of November 8 to November 14 the submissions for archiving were submitted to me. About half the team has responded with their info, and the other half has not contacted me. I will talk to everyone on the team this week and I will shuffle…
Read postThis September, we got a team of programmers together and applied to participate in an MIT and NASA sponsored competition called Zero Robotics. After a very difficult application process, we got accepted among 24 other teams out of over 100! Using an online…
Read postCatapults Today, at the NASA Lab, we had a large group of students meeting for FRC Friday. This week, to apply some of the tools usage and mechanical skills that were learned in previous workshops, we split into two mini-teams and had a catapult-building…
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