To celebrate the start of Team 501’s 2011-2012 season, we have rolled out a slightly redesigned website. The new look features bigger menus that are easier to read. The menus also contain descriptions, so you’ll always know where to find what you need. A few weeks ago, we introduced a new calendar, complete with a […]
Welcome to the 2011 Northeast Utilities FIRST Connecticut Regional. Follow all the action here March 31-April 2nd.
On Saturday March 19th, Team 501 participated in the 2nd annual Goffstown Business Expo. The event was held at Goffstown High School. Several Goffstown High Team 501 students ran a booth to help support our team and spread the word of FIRST. Our 2007 robot, A-Rack-No-Phobia, was present and drew a lot of attention from […]
Welcome to the 2011 BAE Granite State Regional! Follow all the action here March 3rd-5th.
The sixth and final week of the 2011 FRC build season has come and gone. Over the past week, our team has worked incredibly hard to finish the robot before competition. However, we ran into some difficulty with our arm. We hope to get it working before the robot has to be bagged up. Otherwise, […]
On Tuesday, Team 501 held tryouts for the 2011 drive team. It was very entertaining to watch and good practice for all team members. The 2011 chassis was not entirely ready yet, so the team used the 2009 chassis for the tryouts. Both the 2009 and 2011 chassis have similar drive trains, so the experience […]
Week 5 is just about gone! This past week, our team has made massive strides in completing the 2011 chassis. The build team received the motors and transmissions for the arm assembly. They also received the cRio for 2011. With the new parts, the build completed 90% of the arm assembly and has a few […]
Week 4 is now behind us! The 2011 chassis is looking good and we are right on schedule. The build team is in the beginning of building the arm assembly and the rest of the chassis is looking good. Our robot is starting to come together. We are still waiting on motors and transmissions for […]
During the third week of build, our team has worked hard to complete the 2011 chassis and the minibot. Our chassis is almost complete and we are making good progress on the minibot daily. While the build team is hard at work on the chassis, the programming team is developing this year’s code to run […]
After a couple days of brainstorming of how our team wants to play the game this year, we have decided to be an offensive robot, but if needed we need to be a defensive robot. Team 501 has also…