End of Build Season
Pencils down! Build season has come to a close and we’ve bagged our robot away until it’s reveal at our Exhibition Night. Blood, sweat, and many, MANY tears have been shed over these past six weeks, but it’s finally over. Long gone are the many restless nights worrying about errors in code, sobbing over misplaced nuts and bolts, the feeling of hopelessness as the baby bot turned against its parents. Tea bags have been locked away, the doughnut population has been wiped out, a
Exhibition Night
Come one, come all! On February 28th 6pm, at the Kettle Falls High School the we will be hosting the 2019 Exhibition Night. We will be unveiling our competition robot at this free family-friendly event. Since the build season kickoff on January 5th we've been working hard to design and assemble a fully functional robot for the 2019 FIRST competition Destination: Deep Space. Each and every one of us had a role to play in ensuring the robot was completed in the six week build s
Build Season Week 5
It's the final stretch, just over one week until build season comes to an end and the team is in a frantic rush. Prepare yourselves for a pile of anxiety-filled teens in this week's episode of Build Season: What's our plan? We begin our journey at the marketing cave. They are very elusive creatures, hardly exposing themselves to the harsh environments of the outside world. Yet earlier this week they were allowed a rare voyage outside their cave from Mom Paiton to submit multi
Build Season Week 4
It’s been a long week, but against all odds we’ve made it. I’m under the weather so this post won’t hold as much character as the last two, but bear with me. Vision took a slight break from the pain and agony that is the camera and helped greatly with the essays marketing is preparing to submit in the next few days. These essays are crucial to winning Chairman’s. After their small break they worked hard on validation for the vision targets. Flavio is doing well. Drive base fo