Animation Team wins 1st Place for the SAIC Technology and the Arts Competition
As you may already know thanks partly/mostly to Mr. Williams, our 2011 animation was entered in the Digital Animation Category and was chosen from all the Fairfax County Public School entries for the SAIC Technology and the Arts Competition. Nathan Smith went to the awards reception to accept a check for the team. He was […]
Team 116 in the news
Short article about the team. http://herndon.patch.com/articles/come-for-the-pizza-stay-for-the-robots
DC Regional info
Pit, flight, and scout personnel teams will meet on Thursday, Mar 24 at 6:45am. All other team members will attend school Thursday, Mar 24! Departures for Friday and Saturday, both pit, flight, scouting and other team personnel will be announced here and via email.
Competition update
Team 116 Bayou Match schedule Friday: Match 5 Match 8 Match 19 Match 23 Match 28 Match 33 Match 43 Saturday: Match 51 Match 57 Match 64 And the webcast link here: http://www.coderedrobotics.com/webcast/Bayou-Regional/ Watch our Twitter feed for real time updates!
2011 T-shirts
For your viewing pleasure, the 2011 Team T-shirt image!
A shipped, working robot! And next meetings
It’s certainly been a long time since this happened to 116 – our robot drove, and even manipulated game pieces, before it was shipped! Well done to the team this year, for creating a great-looking robot. Next tasks include flight team try-outs, pit crew selection, pit display and spirit planning, and our withholding allowance projects. In […]
Build Progress
While still behind schedule, the team is making a tremendous effort to catch up from the 4 meetings cancelled by weather. Mobility is mounted and seems to be operational – a systems test with controls on Sun Feb 13 will bring life to our drive system. The four manipulator subgroups have progress to each their […]
Thursday Jan 27 CANCELED
Due to weather, FCPS has closed schools for Thursday. The next team meeting is this Saturday, Jan 29. Subgroups should do any extra design work before the weekend meeting. Submit purchase orders and remaining CDR materials ASAP!
Team Update #5 Released
Team Update #5 Updates were made to these sections / rules: 2.2.8 Player stations <G19>, <G21> <R14>, <R22>, <R33>, <R45-D>, <R46>, <R60>, <R92>, <R103> Kit of Parts
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.