Monday 3/4 – Dylan L, Manas P As we kicked off the open room, we had an important decision to make: to decide the batteries’ name theme. Possible themes included pasta shapes and US presidents, but we ultimately decided on naming them after types of pasta. As we continued the…
2024 Build Season Days 52-56 (2/26-3/3)
Monday 2/26 As our exciting trip to Missouri draws near, we have a lot of work to wrap up! We worked on our defense robot, adding some finishing touches to ensure things were where they should be. We also wrapped up our work on our bumpers, making them pretty and presentable. We…
2024 Build Season Days 45-51 (2/19 – 2/25)
Written By: Medha G, Dylan L, Charlotte S, Ben R, Dylan C Monday 2/19 – President’s Day On Monday the majority of the team had a day off. Of course, the robotics room was open for those willing to come on their day off from school. On Monday we mainly…
2024 Build Season Days 38-44 (2/12 – 2/18)
Written By: Medha G, Charlotte S, Ben R, Dylan C Monday 2/12 The open room was packed as we kicked yet another robotics week off. Many of our members were scattered about trying to finish small tasks on the robot, such as reassembling the intake. Today was also a day…
2024 Build Season Days 31-37 (2/5 – 2/11)
Written by: Charlotte S, Medha G, Dylan L, Dylan C Monday 2/5 As we kicked another school week off, the open room was filled with programming and team bonding. Our team prepares for Sunday’s driver’s test by playing a team Blooket, with the majority of the freshmen rushing to win…
2024 Build Season Days 24-30 (1/29 – 2/4)
Written By: Manas P, Charlotte S, Medha G, Ben R, Dylan C Monday 1/29 As we struggle to stay awake at the beginning of the week, the team is continuing to work hard on the robot. One big thing that was going on during the open room was being done…
2024 Build Season Days 17-23 (1/22 – 1/28)
Written by: Medha G, Dylan C, Charlotte S, Ben R, Dylan L Monday 1/22 BAM BAM BAM BAM, that is how open room today started. This was the sound of a few students trying to hammer hex shafts into wheels to broaden the hole. Even though that wasn’t the most…
2024 Build Season Days 9-16 (1/15 – 1/21)
Written By: Dylan C, Medha G. Monday 1/15 Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! For Talon the team decided that we needed another room, so instead of taking the day off, we used Monday as a way to cut plates on our CNC machine. The team listened to music and…
2024 Build Season Days 1-8 (1/7 – 1/14)
Written By Dylan C, Medha G 1/7 The Day After Kickoff Being a Sunday afternoon, everyone was anxious to start work on prototyping the assigned subsystems they received on the kickoff. Starting at noon the party was slowly getting started. As Bob Marley said best, “We’re jammin’ ” and jamming…
2024 Build Season Kickoff (1/6/2024)
The Beginning Today, we began our 2024 Build Season. We started at 8 AM where we prepared for Kickoff by setting up the South Commons area for our team to collaborate, and shortly had our traditional annual pancake breakfast, as our team began to arrive and get prepared for a…