October 7th was our second official preseason meeting! We had business taste testers – Media, Outreach, and Finance, and Level 0 CAD training, lead by our wonderful mechanical leader! Next week we look forward to finding out what technical sub teams we are on and we’ll have our first full meeting with business sub teams! Read more

Today we had our first official preseason meeting. We rotated from mechanical, electronics, programming, shop tools, and hand tools so the girls all know about the different aspects of the technical side of our team. We also took our team picture, which can be found on our home page or Facebook. Thanks to our leaders and… Read more

On Tuesday September 16, we had another successful beta-testing meeting! Last week FIRST released Update Suite 5.0 and we tried reflashing the roboRIO with the new re-imaging system. Unfortunately, after the re-imaging, we found that we could no longer download code to the roboRIO. For now, we have decided to tackle this problem by downgrading… Read more

On Tuesday September 9, we cut out the electronics boards and completely wired the super-shifter robot.   In regards to other technical progress, we successfully began transferring code from last year into Github, our new repository, which we are using this year instead of SVN. Our programming leader also setup the Linux machine with FRCSim which… Read more

Hi everyone! We hope you are having a good start to the school year and FRC preseason!! We wanted to give you an update about beta testing! Girls of Steel was one of the teams selected to test FRC’s new control system. We’ve been testing out the new electronics in bench testing mode, with all… Read more

This summer, Girls of Steel collaborated with STEM Girlz*, a program of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh*. Thanks to the National Girls Collaborative Project* for funding this collaboration! I have always had an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It was truly rewarding to have had the opportunity to expose such lovely young… Read more

Hey guys! Last Saturday we co-hosted a post-season scrimmage with SHARP, FRC Team 3260! Teams 4150 FRobotics and 3955 4-H Gears joined us for some practice matches, obstacle courses, and more! We even had a match with just humans! During that match, autonomous was played with their eyes closed. The rest of the game was… Read more

Coming back from back to back regionals. Whew! About a week ago, the Girls of Steel went to the Buckeye Regional in Cleveland, where we demonstrated our ability to assist well! We ranked 22! We were picked by Alliance 6, and had a final tough match on Quarterfinal match 3, but lost to Alliance 5.… Read more

http://rookiefirsts.tumblr.com/post/77600549161/build-season-is-over-bag-and-tag-lasted-to: rookiefirsts: Build season is over! Bag and Tag lasted to 11:00PM for the Girls of Steel. After Build Season, I realize how much I have learned since Kickoff. Rachel, a member of Girls of Steel, wrote about what she learned during Build Season! This is my first year on The Girls of Steel robotics… Read more

On Tuesday the 11th, three Girls of Steel members went to Hershey for the Pennsylvania Education Technology Expo & Conference (PETE&C).  There we presented in the student expo during the morning. We brought Eve (our robot from last year) and showed her off to the crowd. After answering a billion of questions and demonstrating the robot’s… Read more