It’s Not Always Smooth Sailing Nothing in life is easy all the time and FRC is no exception. This season highlighted some areas we needed to improve within our team, and even though we faced many challenges we were able to come out stronger than before. A prominent issue amongst…
Increasing our Reach This year we set a new goal for our outreach events: one every month! Thanks to the hard work of students and mentors we were able to reach that goal, experiencing around a 200% increase in our event count from our previous season! Today we bring to…
10k History Talon has attended the 10,000 Lakes Regional (10k) for every year possible since 2009. We have been a finalist alliance captain in this tournament twice! We have been in the playoffs each year for over ten years, and similarly, for over ten years. Our Womens Panel is typically…
Why Alabama? The closest second tournament 2502 could get into was more than a thousand miles away by bus – a sixteen-hour drive! Talon packed up our tools, pit, and robot, and drove day and night to reach a large city in northern Alabama, Huntsville. Thank you to our bus…
Training Month We tried something new during our offseason this year, dedicating an entire month to getting people trained in each of our various subteams! This was a great opportunity for everyone to explore areas of the team they were interested in and learn more about them. Every subteam put…
Where We’ve Been If you’ve been following our blog posts, you may have noticed that fewer than expected have been coming out. Long story short, we had some unexpected issues with our website preventing us from posting. Thanks to the hard work of our media team, we’ve hopefully resolved this…
Monday 2/10- Viki P. Touchdown on Talon Robotics! Back from our Superbowl weekend, Talon is ready to dive into a Monday! There were business meetings to attend, a robot to troubleshoot, and field elements to be made. To start our “meeting sandwich” as Audrey, one of our leads, calls it,…
Monday 1/20 Drivetrains and Deep Climbs – Connor P. Since it was MLK day we could get straight to work, and we started like a rocket! We quickly got our machines running all day to get parts ready, along with starting to get our deep climb attached to our drivetrain!…
Monday 1/13 On your marks, get set, CAD! – By Medha G. Welcome back from the weekend! The usual whirr of the CnC during the week was quelled this Monday because this day was a celebration- a milestone in our robot design. That’s right, this Monday was the start of…