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TrenchBots Demo Day
Today was the big day that we have been looking forward to and working towards for the past 6 weeks. Today was the day that the TrenchBots took to the trench to show off their robotic skills. While our work … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Trench Bots
Tagged community, competition, families, First Robotics, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge, Queen's University, sponsors, thank you, trenchbots
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Trench Bots: Progress Being Made
This past Thursday we met again to continue building and programming our trench bots. We are looking forward to showing everyone what our trench bots can do on November 22nd at our open house. We will all give demonstrations of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Trench Bots
Tagged construction, First Robotics, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge, programming, testing, trenchbots
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You are invited!
We welcome everyone to join us for our TrenchBot Open House and Sponsor Appreciation Night! Come see what robots we’ve built during the pre-season training sessions. RSVP to Karen Mattes by Friday November 16th 2012
Posted in 2012 Trench Bots
Tagged community, demo, families, First Robotics, FRC, pre-season challenge, Queen's University, trenchbots
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Trench Bots: The Kits Are Here!
This Thursday, our groups got together to start building our robots. With only two weeks to build them we have to work fast! Many groups split into smaller sub-groups to work on different jobs at once. Some of us got … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Trench Bots
Tagged construction, design, First Robotics, FRC, pre-season challenge, thank you, trenchbots
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Trench Bots Week 3
This past Thursday we met again to continue learning and working on our Trench Bot designs.First, we began with an educational physics lesson. Jack taught us all about Newton’s Three Laws of Motion, followed by learning about Free Body Diagrams … Continue reading
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Tagged brainstorming, First Robotics, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge, programming, trenchbots
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Trench Bots Week 2
This past Thursday our team got together, and started to narrow down our designs for the Trench Bot design competition. We got to see the actual trench that our robot will navigate.We took some key measurements which will be important … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Trench Bots
Tagged brainstorming, design, field, First Robotics, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge, Queen's University
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Introducing Trench Bots
Today was the first pre-season training session for K-Botics. It was great to have so many enthusiastic students and mentors together in the same room!This fall meetings will take place on Thursdays from 5:30-8:00 PM at the Integrated Learning Center … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Trench Bots
Tagged design, First Robotics, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge, Queen's University, thank you, trenchbots
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How To Rescue A Teddy Bear
Today we gathered to continue our preseason training. Some of us are getting very close to completing the set of CAD tutorials. We’ll need all of our experts to design and CAD our robot collaboratively this season. We had an … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 skill building
Tagged brainstorming, First Robotics, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge
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Brainstorming Skills
We’re still accepting more people in our First Aid Course–sign up here!! Details: Emergency First Aid for K-Botics and Cyberfalcon members and mentors on November 26th from 9AM to 4PM at KCVI room 107. The cost is only $10. Today … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 skill building
Tagged brainstorming, First Robotics, FRC, organization, pre-season challenge
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Super Top Secret Design Challenge
Our meeting this week was busy and productive. We debriefed about our bottle drive experience, and plan to hold another one that is bigger and better in the spring–so parents….please save your empties for us! Look who showed up today! … Continue reading
Posted in 2011 skill building, Fun
Tagged brainstorming, Chairman's Report, communication, design, First Robotics, FLL, FRC, mentors, pre-season challenge, prototype, team building, testing
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