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Girls of Steel FTC 9820, 9821, & 9981: Final Update
Girls of Steel Hypatia FTC 9820 Though our regional competition had unfortunately been cancelled and then postponed, we were excited to know that we had some extra time to work on our robot before the next competition on February 24, 2019, at Upper St. Clair High School. We used this time to add some new…
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Destination Deep Space! Miami Valley Regional
Wednesday, March 6th marked the start of our exciting journey to Dayton, Ohio for the Destination Deep Space Miami Valley Regional Competition (MVR). After a long bus ride from Pittsburgh we arrived at our hotel to get a restful night before a day full of practice, adjustments, and inspection at MVR at the Nutter Center…
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2019 Build Season Week 6
Week 6 ended with Bag & Tag at NREC on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 and the Girls of Steel team has been more productive than ever. The strategy and analysis teams worked on creating a spreadsheet on scouting strategy. The programming team finished the baby drive for Lidar code as well as tested the pivot…
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2019 Week Zero Scrimmage at NREC
On February 16th, 2019, Girls of Steel hosted eight other FRC teams at the annual Week Zero Scrimmage. As always, it was held in our practice field at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). It was so exciting to see each team test their robots and compete in this year’s FIRST game of Destination Deep…
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2019 Build Season Week 5
As we are coming close to the end of our build season, the Girls of Steel are working extremely hard to finish up our robots!! One more week left! On Saturday, February 2nd, our chairman’s team ran a chassis project workshop and it went great. Drive team started practicing this week! During our 4 build…
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2019 Build Season Week 4
During week 4 we know we’re approaching the deadline for Miami Valley Regional; the team has been working at the peak of its productivity. The collector team finished cutting designs for the collector prototype and assembled it. The mechanical team started to build the competition robot; voted to be named Laika by the entire…
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2019 Build Season Week 3
The Girls of Steel have just finished the third week of build season, and everyone is still going strong! We have just reached the halfway point! We are coming close to Miami Valley Regional and all the girls are super excited! This week, we made great progress with our usual Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday…
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2019 Build Season Week 2
The Girls of Steel team has had a successful second build season week! The electronics team cleaned up gearboxes, fixed pneumatics as well as the issue with their compressor because crimps on wires were not on properly. Additionally, they tested the talons and used CAD to design the electronics board. The mechanical team continued building…
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2019 Build Season Week 1
The Girls of Steel have once again started off strong with our first week of build season! Kickoff went great! Girls of Steel had an alum, Naoka Gunawardena, speak at kickoff and we watched the FRC Destination:Deep Space game videos! (You can watch Naoka at about 34:30 on the video.) Brainstorming for this season started…
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2018-2019 Preseason Update #5
Finally, our last preseason post of 2018-thank you to everyone who has been following along with the team! Before starting with business subteams, here’s a glimpse at a communication scenario that may help during tense times in build season. Here’s the latest from Awards: they have continued working on revisions for Chairman’s essays and finished…