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Drive-A-Thon

This weekend, we will have a 48 hour Drive-A-Thon! You can catch us live all weekend from 9 am – 9 pm. You can donate via Zelle; add payments@frc4322.com as a contact in Zelle to donate! Follow along as we finish building our 2024 season robot, CRUSH, and test it! Thank you all for the …

FRC 4322 Open Alliance

Team 4322 is proud to be a 2024 Open Alliance team! Open Alliance is a group of teams that openly share their processes and findings throughout the year to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation within FIRST. We post updates on our build thread on Chief Delphi after every team meeting. We decided to …

2023 Off-Season

Our 2023 off-season competitions are officially over. From upgrading our robot, Nemo, to 12 motor swerve and implementing auto alignment to the single substation, it has been an exciting and crazy off-season for us! Our first event was SoCal Showdown. Our major upgrade for the off-season was 12 motor swerve drive. SoCal Showdown was the …

Last Week at CVMS

This week is our last week at Cerro Villa Middle School. Thank you Cerro Villa Middle School for graciously hosting our team over the summer! Your space has allowed us to continue interacting with the community through outreach events and has also let our students meet in person to work on what we love… which …

Temporary Shop at CVMS

This week we met at Cerro Villa Middle School to make vanity bumpers for our demo robot, Citron. Thank you Cerro Villa Middle School for hosting us at your school and allowing us to finish fixing our robot in time for the 3rd of July outreach event! Tomorrow afternoon(7/3) we’ll be operating a booth at …

2023 Leadership Training

Last weekend we conducted our annual leadership training for our students. This was a very interactive and entertaining 2-day session involving mentors and students. We went over a variety of important topics like properly giving and accepting feedback, creating an open atmosphere that promotes curiosity, task delegation, and guiding new students. As a student-led team, …

Moving Out from VPHS

Moving Out Last week we packed up our entire shop and moved out of the room graciously given to us by Villa Park High School. It was a long process, but we eventually sorted all of our stuff and moved them into temporary storage. Thank you Villa Park High School for hosting our team at …

Special Guest Visits our Shop!

Last Wednesday we had a special guest visit our shop and give us an amazing presentation about his career at NASA JPL, Google, and a startup called Itopia. From writing test code to make sure that the Curiosity rover’s brain was functioning correctly, to developing the cloud infrastructure needed to run powerful programs in pocket-sized …

2023 End of Season Banquet

Last week we had our 2023 Banquet, officially wrapping up our FRC season and transitioning us into the off-season! We had a great time with lots of awesome food, speeches, and gifts. We’d like to thank our sponsors, mentors, and parents for supporting us on our journey as we went from brainstorming concepts for our …