It has been a whacky season this year! Both from changes within our team, as well as those not within our control, this season has been like no other. Here is a highlight of our team’s progress through this past season. During the off season, a core group of team …
Given the circumstances of this season’s abrupt ending, F4 decided to make a “Spring Special” CADathon, which ran from Easter Day to the following Sunday. A CADathon, for those who are unaware, are similar to a hackathon, however instead of programming it is CADing. A game manual of a game …
FIRST Washington held a virtual ceremony this Friday to celebrate team’s accomplishments even though there was no competition. Teams still submitted chairman’s videos and essays to compete with and they were still judged. Our team got on a zoom call and watched the award ceremony together. They would announce some …
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 about thirty teams showing up over the two qualifiers. The qualifiers start each of the competing teams going through Project Judging, where they display their …
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, the Mechanim design can move in any direction on an horizontal plane. To answer the question of what we should choose, team members built a …
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 a cycle. Predicting there would be a lot of congestion getting across the field, we felt it was vital to have all 5 power cells …
On January 21, the SIM team connected on Zoom to go over the framework for the Java simulation. We divided the project into two classes, a FRC2020 match class and a robot class. . The FRC2020 class runs a match that consists of 6 robots from the robot class. Each …
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 (over 20% of the volunteer force) worked as FLL and Jr FLL judges, scorekeepers, referees, and videographers to keep the meet running smoothly. It was …
On Thursday January 9, the Sim Team decided to have a meeting to discuss the basic ideas about the possible parameters for the game simulation. This plan was meant to share, and organize different ideas, and data based on the Game of 2020. The team, discussed these different ideas, and …
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, jello, popcorn and did a cake walk. The time we did this fundraiser was during one of the late carnivals we had in mid December, and …
