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 …
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 …
We held a very successful 3rd of July outreach event this last week! Thank you CVMS for giving us a space to prep for this event! Our amazing students were able to reach over 100 kids from the community by allowing them to demo our robot.
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Overview The First Robotics Competition 2023 season Charged Up has come to an end, and what a season it has been for us! From brainstorming crazy robot designs to having eventful and exciting competitions, our team has experienced and learned a lot from this game. Game Reveal & Robot Design Going into the season kickoff, …
Week 5 is in the books! This week was a very productive week. Both our mechanical and software team have been working hard to build the robot. On the mechanical side, we are almost done with all the CADing, and are starting to work on building the robot! We worked on our gripper, which is a …
