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Overview: This year we had enough
members to have two teams compete for First Tech
Challenge. Both teams decided to compete twice in two
FTC competitions to increase the chances of both teams
qualifying.
Goals: We wanted both teams to qualify for LA
Championships.
Plan:
Both teams are going to build
robots that performed a specific function that would
allow the team to score points consistently.
Results:
In the first competition, the
veteran team placed 3rd, while the new team placed 2nd.
Even though our teams were not able to do the primary
objective well, we were able to do other objectives to
get to the top 5 our of 24 teams. After this
competition, we applied our experience and started to
improve what our robots did best to do the better at the
next competition. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the
veteran team had to rebuild a new robot because a lot of
their extremely crucial robot parts were broken. In the
second competition, the veteran team was able to place
13th with the new robot, and the new team placed 3rd.
Robot specs:
Veteran Team
Frontal View
Wiring and Backside
Right Side of Robot
Left Side of Robot
Pinion Rack Mechanism
Rookie Team
2 Back Wheel Drive
Pinion Slide Elevator
Accessible NXT Compartment
Pexli-glass Container and Servo-powered Collector
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Aside from competing in the competition, students had to
record their process in making their robot by
documenting it in a notebook. The
following is the notebook they had to make along with
the robot.
Engineering Notebook
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