Saturday January 15

Every group was able to come up with a robot design and make a presentation to explain it. Afterwards the group had a PDR and the best robot design has […]

Team116 in the News

An article about the Team was written in the Herndon Connection titled, ‘Mechanically Speaking.’  See it online here or click the image below to view the print version.

Thursday January 13th

Today we discussed our ideas from Tuesday’s meeting and attempted to narrow them down to one functional idea per group. Our next meeting is Saturday January 15th from 8am-4pm. At this meeting, […]

Animation Prompt Announcement

Autodesk has just released the details for the 2011 Excellence in Design awards on their website. To see the award criteria, including the prompt for the Animation award, take a […]

Monday January 10th

Today was our first Monday meeting of the build season! The team took the first of three possible rules tests. If you didn’t pass the test today or were not […]

FIRST Design video

Here’s a simple, descriptive video of a ‘Design process’, hosted by Grant Imahara, part of a soon-to-be video series. In the episode, Grant describes the steps used by Team 111 […]

FIRST FRC Kickoff!

Kickoff is scheduled for 09:00, January 8 in the HHS Lecture Hall. Students are expected to attend and mentors are encouraged. This is an open event – parents, siblings, school […]

Encrypted game manual is available

The manual (and a decryption test, so you can practice to be sure you know how to do it) can be found here: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/content.aspx?id=452

Game hints

The second game hint was released on Tuesday, January 4. Find both at this page: http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/content.aspx?id=18713 And the Chief Delphi discussion of the second hint here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=88242