Archive for the 'News' Category
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 [...]
Family Night Dinner Fundraiser
February 21st, 2008There will be a family dinner fundraiser on February 28, 2008. It will be in the McDowell Cafeteria. There will be Dinner, Chinese and Silent Auctions. Roomba raffle.
Team featured on WICU-12 News
February 20th, 2008The Red Barons were on WICU-12 News on sunday night. Click on the video below to view it.
New Live Chat Feature
February 5th, 2008A live chat program was added to our website. It is still in the testing phase. I’m using a pre-made program (PHPFreeChat), but I’ll eventually write my own to integrate into the website. Right now, you don’t need an account to use it, but when I finish writing the program, it will require a valid account [...]
Featured in McDowell Magazine
January 30th, 2008Recently, our team was featured in the Winter 2008 release of the Blue and White Times (McDowell Student News Magazine). It talks about what we do as a FIRST team and how excited we were for build season to start.
