Archive for March, 2008
Michigan: Saturday
March 29th, 2008Today, the qualification rounds wrapped up. We competed in two matches and did well. However, when it came time to select alliances for the bracket matches, we were not picked.
Michigan: Friday
March 28th, 2008Today we competed four times today. Our robot performed really well. Our alliance won one or two of those matches. We hurdled and placed the ball on top of the rack multiple times, proving our robot’s capability.
Michigan: Thursday
March 27th, 2008Today we participated in the practice rounds at the competition in Michigan. Our robot did a decent job and scored some points. The main objective however, was to practice different methods of scoring.
Pittsburgh: Saturday
March 15th, 2008We arrived early today so that we could start working as soon as the pits opened to fix the problems that we had yesterday.
GP Award
March 15th, 2008Our team won the Gracious Professionalism (GP) award today at the Pittsburgh Regional competition.
Pittsburgh: Friday
March 14th, 2008Today we started out with out robot not working no matter what we seemed to do with it. Eventually at the end of the day we found condensation in the motors. Since they were electric motors, that was definitely the problem. So we replaced it and when we tested it after all the matches were [...]
Website Award
March 14th, 2008The Red Barons won the Website Award at the Pittsburgh Competition.
Congratulations Team 63!
Pittsburgh: Thursday
March 13th, 2008On Thursday, we started out the day with problems with the robot. At first it wouldn’t even move. We tried many different solutions to it and eventually it improved somewhat. However, we never got it fully functional and didn’t score many points. We went back to the hotel disappointed but hopeful that we would fix [...]
Final Meeting
March 10th, 2008The final meeting before the Pittsburgh Regional competition will be on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 5pm. All team members who are going on the trip must come. You will find out what your job will be at the competition as well as general information you need to know. We will also be packing the [...]
