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  • 2023 Charged Up: Greater Pittsburgh Regional

    Our second regional was the Greater Pittsburgh Regional (GPR) held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Our team had a lot of fun and there were many highlights along the way. The regional spanned for three days: April 6, 7, and 8. The first day consisted of practice matches to get used…

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  • 2023 Charged Up: Miami Valley Regional

      The Girls of Steel did amazing at the 2023 FIRST Miami Valley Regional in Cincinnati, Ohio. The regional spanned 3 days: Thursday, March 16th; Friday, March 17th; and Saturday, March 18th. The first day consisted of practice matches. We started off well by testing out the robot in a match setting, but then we…

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  • 2023 Charged Up: Build Season Update

    Technical Project Manager Build season was a huge learning experience with everyone. Starting with kickoff on January 7th through the design process, we initially started off with a design of six subsystems on our robot but by the end of the build season, we had condensed down to three. After building Bubbles, the first iteration…

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  • 2023 Charged Up: Week Zero

    On February 25th, Girls of Steel was finally able to hold their 10th Week Zero scrimmage – the first one since 2020 – after three years. Twelve teams attended the scrimmage this year. Like the last Week Zero, this year’s Week Zero took place on our practice field at Carnegie Mellon University at 6555 Penn…

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  • 2022 The Girls of Steel Year in Review

    The Girls of Steel accomplished a lot in 2022 even though we started off the year virtually for just about all of January.  The team ended 2022 ready for the 2023 season of Charged Up which began on January 7, 2023! January  Even though CMU shut down in person meetings for January, we were excited…

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  • 2022-2023 FRC Preseason Update #2

      We started preseason on September 6th and our total preseason this year was 14 weeks long – two weeks longer than prior years.  After a successful preseason, we celebrated the end of preseason with a holiday party on December 11th and a white elephant gift exchange – and then finished up preseason meetings on…

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  • 2022-2023 FTC 9820 and 9821: Update #2 Team Progress

    Hello there! We are the 2022-2023 Girls of Steel FTC teams, an all girls robotics team in the Pittsburgh area! (for more information, please see our last blog post if you haven’t already!) There’s one more aspect of the FTC competition that we didn’t mention in our first post – autonomous! Autonomous is the first…

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  • Girls of Steel 2022 FLL Challenge: SuperPowered

    This year we ran the Girls of Steel FLL Challenge program SuperPowered season  in person for the first time since 2019. After two seasons of meeting our teams on Zoom, this year was so much fun.   The program ran for 12 weeks from September 10th through December 11, 2022, with a break for Thanksgiving…

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  • 2022-2023 FRC Preseason Update #1

    Introduction: It’s hard to believe we are halfway through the 2023 preseason!  Every part of our team, from Business to Technical, has worked hard to prepare for build season.  Here’s a statement from all our leads about what we’ve accomplished so far this preseason. Business Business Project Manager: Ashley W. We have had a great…

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  • 2022-2023 FTC 9820 and 9821: Update #1 Team Progress

    Hello there! We are the 2022-2023 Girls of Steel FTC teams 9820 and 9821, all girls robotics teams in the Pittsburgh area sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University. We are also known as Girls of Steel Hypatia and Girls of Steel Hopper, named for famous women in STEM.    FTC stands for FIRST Tech Challenge, one…

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