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The Mohawk Minute Issue #5
Nose to the Grindstone Hello all, and welcome back to the Mohawk Minute! The gears on the RoboRiot machine are turning as hard as ever this week. The CAD team is finishing up chassis designs for our competition robot, which is fantastic for our fabrication team. The fabrication team has been working on a new…
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Swerve As always, we’re hard at work here at RoboRiot. “Busy” is basically our middle name by now, but “RoboBusyRiot” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Bad joke? Yeah, bad joke. Anyway, here’s what we’ve been up to for the past week: the programmers have been hard at work with our triangle bot.…
Read MoreRegister at FIRST
The following is a message from Mrs. Beth Liederbach: Dear Parents/Guardians, Greetings! Build season is well underway. The RoboRiot team members are working hard and learning so much!It is time for all parents/guardians and team members to register at FIRST. One parent/guardian per student needs to register.Parents/guardians must register before they register their students. Follow…
Read MoreThe Mohawk Minute Issue #3
Power Up This week, things are ramping up even further here at RoboRiot. We’ve been hard at work with prototypes and designs for our robot. This year, we’re hoping to integrate a swerve drive on our robot, and the fabrication team has been prototyping ways to make that happen. Our CAD and Programming teams have…
Read MoreThe Mohawk Minute Issue #2
*Infinite Recharge* – Powered by “Star Wars: Force for Change” Kickoff has come and gone. With the start of the season comes the need to strategize and plan. Our entire team has been working together, sharing ideas for designs and prototypes that can achieve the goals we need to for this year’s game. In *Infinite…
Read MoreThe Mohawk Minute Issue #1
Pre-Build Season For our Pre-build Season, each team has been working on some basics and teaching new students how we run things in RoboRiot. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve been up to so far: Basecamp is a communications platform that RoboRiot uses to coordinate projects among team members and other sub-teams. For newcomers, learning…
Read MoreThe Mohawk Minute
In previous years, ‘RoboRiot Report’ was the name of the Newsletter that recorded what each team did. This year, we’re reinventing the newsletter… Mainly because we have a new author. Introducing *The Mohawk Minute*! For years, people have recognized RoboRiot by the iconic hats with blue mohawks on top of them. Now our mohawks will…
Read MoreDeep Space 2019 Week 1
The beginning of our week began with many people gone at a band event, so the rest of the team started planning out what things the team would like to implement. On Tuesday the team at a wonderful Jambalaya dinner provided by the Sheboygan Falls culinary class and announced a new website the team would…
Read MoreDeep Space Kick-Off 2019
2019 Kick-off allowed for RoboRiot to learn the manual, and brainstorm different strategies and design elements. Everyone arrived at nine o’clock to watch the kick-off going on live in New Hampshire and even enjoyed some motivational speeches from alumni, congressman, and the FIRST Robotics president Steve Sanghi. The students and mentors were provided a lunch…
Read MoreRoboRiot Update #4 (Sent Feb. 8th, 2018)
Welcome To Update #4. Hello RoboRiot students, parents, and mentors. We are here to showcase our fourth installation of the RoboRiot Updates. Each week, the pressure is on to make the best results and the changes necessary to make the robot in the best shape for the regional. We begin with our Fabrication team. They…
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