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2023 Season Wrap Up

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, …

STEAM for Teens & Tweens

In partnership with the Orange Public Library, our team holds an event each year called STEAM for Teens and Tweens that gives middle and high school students access to a fun and interactive program involving STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics). This year, our team had to take a virtual approach in order to …

World-class Welding

As always, The Clockwork Oranges work long hard hours to be the best robotics team across the nation. In order to achieve that dream, they have taken on the art of welding. Mr. Gaines along with other FIRST mentors were the minds behind the welding. They believed it was an important skill needed to achieve …

Let’s Build

If you have read Francesca Sarmiento’s “Domo Arigato…Mr. Roboto”, you probably know all about the FIRST fun we’ve had all year. El Modena’s best and brightest, The Clockwork Oranges have entered build season. A period of six weeks where each FIRST Robotics team is required to build two robots in order to compete in FIRST …

Domo Arigato…Mr. Roboto

As robotics nerds, picture Bill Gates, across the nation eagerly counted down to the reveal of FRC’s 2016 Stronghold game, Frontline was there among the crowd, and it was electric…and a bit solar as well. Great minds of our tech future huddled to discuss the possibilities and strategies. Each year FIRST Robotics Competition, or FRC, …

All About Bowie

One of the most interesting teachers you have probably never met, Mr. Bowie, the CAD(computer aided design)/Robotics teacher at El Modena. Unless of course you happen to take one of his classes and in that case, you are a fan. When you walk into his classroom, your IQ increases at least 5 points, surrounded by …