PrototypeX: April 2014

Sunday, April 27, 2014

FRC World Championships!!

We made it to St. Louis MO!! All of the team and most of the families traveled to St. Louis for the world competition. We played on the Currie Division field. It was so much fun to be with the other teams at worlds.

Our team worked hard to keep the robot in working condition. We tried out some new bumpers and that helped things a lot. It was much easier to use the slip covers this time!

We have the best fans in the entire world! We may have the smallest team, but we have the loudest cheering section!

We went up against the team that won the ENTIRE THING in our very first round. We didn't go as far as we had wanted to, but it was a great experience for the team. We learned a lot for next year.

Watch out world, we are comin' back!!

Games in a nutshell.

In January FRC announces what the "game" will be. Every team will then have 6 weeks to design and build their robot for competition. This is a very intense 6 weeks! In 2014 the competition was called Arial Assist. The robots were put into a team of 3 robots. Then, they tried to score points against the other team. Points are scored by making the ball go through the upper goals, a goal in the corners on the floor, passing the ball from robot to robot, passing the ball from human player to robot, or by throwing the ball over a truss in the middle of the field.