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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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Excited to announce that we were selected as Innovation award semi-finalists!! Our product – waterMe – is an exciting concept that we hope to continue to develop. To learn more, check out our Innovation Award page!
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Second league meet was a success! We met our goal of a 200+ score even though we didn’t get a single preferred randomization. We increased our RP from 860 to 1100, and had a high score of 216. Match 1: 186 Match 2: 174 Match 3: 163 Match 4: 160 Match 5: 216 Match 6: […]
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The Chickenados took 2nd in the first league event! We received 860 ranking points, and had a high score of 183, the third highest in our interleague! Match 1: 127 Match 2: 178 Match 3: 160 Match 4: 134 Match 5: 183 Match 6: 78 NEW GOAL: 200+ score in league 2?
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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 […]