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Overview
- No robotics experience is necessary to join!
- Our team builds an industrial robot from the ground up
- Learn engineering, electronics, and programming from real-world professionals and student leaders
- We are led by student officers and adult mentors
- Our goal is to make STEM fun for everyone!
- We compete in the global FIRST® Robotics Competition
- Thousands of teams around the world are given eight weeks to build a robot for the yearly challenge
- We have to design and fabricate the robot all ourselves, although we do use some over-the-shelf parts
- Human players drive the robot on a basketball court-sized playing field against other teams
- We start with two local events and advance to the Chesapeake District Championship based on ranking
Meetings
Room 289 (Math Hallway)
Intro (September)
- Tues & Thurs – 3:00pm to 4:30pm
- Expectation: 1 meeting/week
- Exploring what the program has to offer
Pre-Season (October-December):
- Tues & Thurs – 5:30pm to 8:30pm
- Expectation: 1 meeting/week
- Learning the basics of robotics
Build Season (January-March):
- Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri – 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Saturday – 9:00am to 2:00pm - Expectation: 2 meetings/week
- Building our new robot for the yearly challenge
Post-Season (April-June):
- Tues & Thurs – 5:30pm to 8:30pm
- Expectation: 1 meeting/week
- Working on projects and improvements
Communication
Slack
- Slack is a messaging app that allows quick communication
- Primarily used for general communication among team members to discuss meeting agendas, manage deadlines, and post announcements
- Email is used primarily for bigger and broader communication to parents and students about more important topics, like competition dates or admin tasks
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