by Rayan Naylor and Nicholas Magdaleno
The Bonners Ferry High School award-winning
Robotics Team 2130 Alpha+ is continuing its work
this season, with an eye toward the upcoming
team competitions later this spring.
FIRST Team 2130 Alpha+ just completed its fourth
week of Build Season. We wrapped up prototyping
and are hard at work programming and building
our robot for this year’s team competition game,
called FIRST Stronghold.
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Our programmers are now working on the sensors
and motor controllers, which help give the robot
accuracy in aiming and shooting for the game.
Others on the Build Team are working on the
robot structure as well as designing the
electrical layout.
The Business Team submitted our essay for the
Chairman’s Award and is currently planning our
video and presentation. This award recognizes a
team’s outstanding dedication to STEM education
(Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
outreach and community service. We have also
completed our 2016 Business Plan.
We continue to keep team supporters updated on
our Facebook page, which you can see at:
https://www.facebook.com/FirstTeam2130
and our new YouTube channel, which can be seen
at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvbWPFg2PBMMDULVDD1TTAg.
We remain focused on our end result, bagging and
tagging our finished robot by February 23.
After that time, we can no longer work on our
robot. It gets wrapped in a big plastic bag,
tagged, and closed to ensure we are not changing
a thing. Once the robot is bagged, we are only
allowed to bring it out for a brief community
demonstration. We are currently planning an Open
House for March, so stay tuned!
Throughout our season so far, we have had to
overcome some obstacles. This year’s game is
not an easy challenge, so prototyping our robot
took longer than usual. A major blizzard in the
Midwest slowed down the shipping of many needed
parts for building the robot. Despite these
minor setbacks, our team stands strong to take
on the challenge and work our hardest to build a
great robot. |
