The Nerds of the North

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Sponsor Benefits BLUE $499 or less BLUE Level Benefits: Shoutout of thanks on social media Listed on team website with link Listed on banner in team pit How this helps the team: New...

Encouraging Literacy

One of our team’s missions is to improve Alaskan youth literacy—which the University of Alaska has noted as being a common barricade for college-bound students. Alaska has an 11% illiteracy rate and has ranked the lowest...

FLL Qualifiers

On the 7th and 14th of December we volunteered at the FLL Qualifiers in Anchorage at Begich middle school. It was a fantastic success, with...

Introduction to Drive Train Test Beds

This year, we have been testing both a standard 8 wheel drive train V.S a Mechanim drive train. While the standard option is more reliable,...

Design Spotlight: The Cheeto

From week one, we had two design constraints that we wanted to adhere to this season. The first was to get five power cells in...

The Cheeto

The Cheeto is what we call the ball launching mechanism for the robot. It’s curved and will rotate to be able to launch balls at...

Sim Team begins VS Code Java application

Brian & Coach Roach meet via Zoom On January 21, the SIM team connected on Zoom to go over the framework for the Java simulation....

FLL State Championship

This past Saturday, we volunteered at the FLL State Championship. On Friday, some of us helped set up, then the next day 25 of us...

Simulation Team begins analyzing the game

Remote team member, Brian, collaborates with his teammates using Zoom and Google Docs. On Thursday January 9, the Sim Team decided to have a meeting...

Cake Walk Fundraiser in Kasigluk

On December 11, 2019, us team members from Akula Elitnaurvik in Kasigluk, AK fundraised $140 toward our travel to Anchorage for FRC. We sold cupcakes,...