Today, Jansen K. and Wynter H. spent a combination of 6 hours after school to complete this task.  I am ecstatic about what these students have accompliished.

Top row: Ubaid P., Nicholas S. Anthony Carlsen, Emmit P., Karina P., Wynter H.
Bottom row, Daniel S., Toby A., Mahesh Alur, Christian S.

After the first meet, our team 14401 is in third place.  Our team 18593 is in thirteenth.  I'm so proud of them!

Here are the results from the first meet:
​https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org/2021/USILCHM1C/qualifications

And the league rankings:
https://ftc-events.firstinspires.org/2021/USILCHM1A/rankings

Aman, Dhruv, Rohan (not pictured), and Tuan (not pictured) made significant progress towards making the robot drivable and able to execute other tasks in this year's game.

To see this year's game, see below.
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Join us on November 8, 2017 from 6pm-9pm for fantastic food, beverages, and silent auction and raffle prizes!

Top row: Tuan L., Lili S., Isaac E., Bryan V.
Front row: Maegan R., Aman K., Amy E., Mentor Oscar D., Mentor Mahesh A., Mentor George T.

Not pictured: Dhruv P., Chanmolica Y., Rubens G., Alex S., Shivam P.

With a total of 14 current members, AHS Robotics now has two teams!  It's going to be a great year.  We're already off to a promising start.  We built the chassis and used the new Rev Expansion Hub to drive our robot.  See the video here.

Attend our fundraiser on November 8.  Find out more information here.

Rubens G., Bryan V., Aman K., Alex S., Shivam P., Tuan L., and Coach Alur met at mHub for the unveling of this year's First Tech Challenge (FTC) game.

This year's game will really challenging our students.  For the first time, a part of the game will occur outside the field!

Amy E., Harshil P., Syed K., and Yash P. sacrificed countless hours of their Winter Break to make our team's robot close to completely functional.  I am so impressed by the commitment made by these students.  Special thanks to Oscar Delgadillo, neighborhood programming volunteer, and Josh Anders, FTC mentor, whose contribution at this time have been invaluable.

Our robot has the following features:

• Three motors that move the robot in all directions
• A sweeper motor to collect the small balls from the playing surface
• An elevator to raise the small balls
• A dual motor ball thrower to launch the small balls into the center vortex
• A button presser to press the beacon buttons in autonomous mode
• A color sensor to detect the beacon color
• An optical distance sensor to detect the white line on the playing surface
• A cascading forklift to lift the capball and place it in the center vortex in the endgame

Here's a video of our lift, which finally lifted!  We've been talking about this lift for the last 3 months.

For those who are interested in attending, the third competition of our robotics season takes place at St. Patrick High School, 5900 W. Belmont Ave. at 1pm - 7pm on 1/7/17. The matches begin at 3:30pm.

Amy E., Yash P., Jay P., Gunatit P. and Harshil P. attended and scored at the first competition of the Velocity Vortex season.  Fantastic work!  Special thanks to Amy's dad for help in transporting the robot and tools.  We're going to be great in December!  More shortly ...

Good job to Yash P, Gabby L., Juan C. and others who have been instrumental in making this ball throwing device a reality.  Next week, we should get the distance that we're looking for.