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JOIN US! As a part of our outreach efforts this year, we’ve put together a packet of lobbying materials to help our legislators continue to support FIRST as a program. Lobbying materials are commonly used to influence governmental figures to vote in favor of bills that support or fund a particular program. If your robotics […]
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This is a 30 second video which demonstrates The Chickenados Team 8628 Autonomous for the Control Award.
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the challenge FTC Relic Recovery video The major tasks in the Relic Recovery game are: place Glyphs (6″ foam cubes in brown and gray) into Cryptoboxes (a 3 x 4 vertical grid) according to Ciphers (a pattern of brown and gray), place Relics (large plastic figurines) in the Recovery Zone (a goal area outside the […]
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the challenge FTC Velocity Vortex video We again had to press buttons on beacons. During TeleOp we tried to shoot wiffle balls into the tall Velocity Vortex assembly. We chose NOT to try and score the large ball during Endgame. our robot gallery
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the challenge FTC Res-Q Video This was probably the most difficult game we’ve done. We had to climb the “Mountain”, drop wiffle balls and cubes in various locations on the field and press buttons on beacons to earn points. We chose to go for it and try to climb the mountain. We made it to […]
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the challenge FTC Cascade Effect video We had to put wiffle balls in tall tubes and drag the tubes. We also had to drive up on ramps. This was the year of our yogurt cup/spring ball collection device. our robot gallery
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On Sunday, March 17, we competed at the Washington State Championships at the ShoWare Center. It was a great day. We won all but one of our preliminary matches and placed fourth. This meant we got to captain one of the four finals super teams. Our luck didn’t hold, and our super team was eliminated […]
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Here’s a picture of Chickenbot Mark III on the morning of the State Championship. We worked long hours on Saturday to get it ready, and everything works including the autonomous routine. We didn’t get much driving practice, so we’ll have to wait till the matches to find out how reliable it is.
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153 FTC teams competed this year in Washington state. We were among the 36 teams that moved on to the State Championship. We can move on to the World Championship by finishing in the top seven at State. The 2019 FIRST Championship will be held in Houston, TX, from Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – 12:00am […]
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We’ve had major snow this week, so there’s been a change in plans. The FTC State Championship has been rescheduled for Sunday, March 17, at the ShoWare Center in Kent, WA.