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 …
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 all the targets. There will be wheels attached at the end that will be able to both collect and launch balls. There’ll also be a …
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 …
On November 23rd, the First Tech Challenge SouthCentral League Championship was held at Dimond High School. There was a really great turnout on the amount of teams from around Southcentral Alaska. Our FRC team was heavily represented at the event in both volunteering and participating. Many of our team members …
On November 22, we had the honor of participating in the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, hosted by ExxonMobile, the Girl Scouts of Alaska, and the Anchorage School District. The event took place at the Egan Center and drew over 120 middle school girls. We got to drive our …
