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Two weeks until our first meet ... Saturday build session

10/21/2017

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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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AHS STEM Club Happy Hour

10/15/2017

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Join us on November 8, 2017 from 6pm-9pm for fantastic food, beverages, and silent auction and raffle prizes!
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A new Season ... And our Club grows! Now, with two FTC teams.

9/25/2017

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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.
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And the new season begins ... with a new game

9/9/2017

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

1/9/2017

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Great strides Made over Winter Break ... Third Competition on Saturday, 1/7/17

1/6/2017

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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.
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First competition of the season

11/5/2016

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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 ...
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Ball thrower updated

10/20/2016

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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.
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Taking The Robot Apart to Make it better: Illustrating the engineering process

10/16/2016

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Randy M., Uziel S., Syed K., and Ryan N. are shown making space for the ball throwing mechanism.
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Join us at our Empirical Brewery Fundraiser on Nov 9

9/28/2016

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