Hello everyone! The past couple of weeks have been full of excitement.  We recently took our robot, Ada, to the Buckeye Regional Competition in Cleveland, Ohio. This year we were one of three all girls teams competing at Buckeye – Murphy’s Outlaws (FRC 677), Fighting Unicorns (FRC 2399), and Girls of Steel (FRC 3504).  The… Read more

Hi everyone! In preparation for our competition at Buckeye this weekend, we had a pow-wow on Tuesday to get the team in spirit! To update you on the robot since Pittsburgh: we have decided to remove the doors and fingers, we have made the shack arms more efficient by lengthening the grippers and we have… Read more

Hi everyone! Have you missed reading these blog posts? Don’t worry, we have LOTS to share in this one. I’ll start with the big things first: Our robot had a major makeover this past weekend! Can you guess which two subsystems got taken off? If you guessed the doors and fingers, then you are right!… Read more

We can’t believe that build season is over! The robot is bagged and tagged, after an exciting weekend of Week Zero with teams 2656, 3260, 3955, 4031, and 4150!! At Week Zero, we gave the other teams in Pittsburgh a chance to compete and test out their robot! We held matches as well as just had… Read more

Week 5 was one of our most successful weeks so far! We have made lots of progress and are excited to share it with you! First of all, our robot now has a name – Ada – in honor of the first female programmer! 🙂 Ada’s electronics and pneumatics are completely done, as well as… Read more

I hope everyone’s build season is going great!! During week 4, we really picked up the pace on our robot. We fully completed the chassis and managed to get it to drive in less than half an hour!! We started our second chassis for our practice robot with small changes, and are planning to replace… Read more

We can’t believe we’re halfway through build season!! This week, we made lots of progress on our chassis and manipulator mechanisms. Our U-chassis has been completely welded and is in the process of assembly. Our trifold, the ‘walls’ between which the stacks of totes and containers will be built, is in the process of fabrication… Read more

Week 2 was just as busy as Week 1! In Mechanical, we finished the bottom part of our U-chassis! We added a new part – the ‘doors’ – which function to hold the stacks from falling out of the U-chassis. Programming worked on autonomous and the mechanum drive, as well as finishing most of the… Read more

The first week of build season was hectic yet successful. Starting with a five hour brainstorming session following icy roads on kickoff morning, we designed, prototyped, CADed, tested new wheels, and began the chassis of our robot! Chassis & Programming: We are currently working on a U-shaped chassis with mecanum wheels. By Thursday, programmers had… Read more

Today in Girls of Steel, we had our last preseason meeting.  This was the last day for the girls to build their team’s End of Preseason Project robot.  To start off the meeting, the girls went over a presentation addressing what the start of build season will look like.  During this presentation, we also had… Read more