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 Wildstang to design, model, and fabricate their 2007 robot’s end effector. This is a great introduction to a FIRST build season! FIRST Design (part 1) […]
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 administrators, and all others are welcome too! Light breakfast will be provided by team members. For those coming to the DC kickoff event, please be […]
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
Next meeting, Jan 4
Happy New Year to everyone! Our next team meeting will be at the shop on Tuesday, Jan 4. Please remember your trip deposits as described here. Meeting details are also described in that post.
Next meeting and trip payments
Our next official meeting will be Jan 4 2011 at the shop! We’ll be presenting Fall projects and preparing for kickoff on Saturday, Jan 8 2011. If you have not brought trip deposits, they are required at the next meeting! The amounts for each trip are as follows: DC – $50 New Orleans – $100 […]
Armstrong outreach
We had a great outreach session today at Armstrong Elementary. The kids were engaged and asked many questions as well as having fun with the squarebots. The teachers at Armstrong were also very pleased, asking about Jr FLL and how they could get some more robotics into their elementary school programs. All-in-all a great showing […]
We’re online!
We’ve added the team116.org domain name and are now serving the world wide web!
New content
Lots of new content added, including these pages: Sponsors updated Achievements our Meetings‘ details lots of Resources (check out the Links and Suppliers) a neat Media index to Invisiblerobot.com
The beginning
Surprise! We’re remaking our site (again), and this time we’ll finish it. Promise! Come here for occasional team news. For rapid, to-the-minute updates, follow us on Twitter ↗.