After two days of fierce Robotics Matches, Team 501 had made it into the Semi-Finals! We lasted for a few matches, but were ultimately knocked out. The Drive Team put up a very good fight despite the bugs still present in the robot. Our driver, Nicole Lyle, balanced on the ramp with near 100% consistency! […]
Welcome to our live blog for the 2012 Granite State Regional! Blogging will start on Friday, March 1st 2012. Click here to follow the action!
The day started out with getting the supplies and the robot ready. Once everything was set for them to work they started work to put on the shooter and the bumpers. We missed two practice rounds at the beginning of the day. As safety captain, I was in the pit during our matches, cleaning and […]
As the 2012 build season came to a close, our team reached several milestones and finished strong. Last Saturday,our team had our 2012 robot driving on our test carpet. This allowed the drive team to practice with the robot and also gave us a chance to discover any problems. Our team spent Sunday, Monday, and […]
On Friday night, Team 501 held tryouts for the 2012 robot drive team. A carpet was laid on the floor to simulate a surface that is similar to the actual FIRST field. The carpet featured a “penalty zone” and several objects that the students had to lightly come in contact with. This helped drivers learn […]
This week, Team 501 was featured in the local newspaper, The Hooksett Banner. The article talks about team activites such as: build, programming, and the team website. Several students are interviewed including team captain Nicole Lyle
As build season winds down, Team 501 is hard at work completing our robot. Over the last two weeks, the main chassis continued to make great progress as well as the test robot. During Week 3, basic driving tryouts were held using our test robot. Students were challenged to navigate our test robot around an […]
After kickoff everything becomes crazy and everyone is constantly running around with their heads cut off. The team has held many brain storming sessions and had an awesome rules reading party. There have also been various other meetings to starting thinking about how we are going to get the robot to other competitions and how […]
FIRST Team 501 made it into the New Hampshire News section of the Union Leader, for the 2012 FRC kickoff. Our group who was at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), which inculded a few mentors and four students. Their picture is of them looking at the goals for this year’s game Rebound Rumble. The picture […]
Brainstorming started off with us splitting up into small groups and going into individual conference rooms to read the rules. Once we read the rules we came together to start our brainstorming as a group. The group started going over what we wanted the bot to do. Some designs came out in today’s brainstorming session but we tried […]