Greetings Beach Middle School Robotics families, this is your “Week in Robotics Update.”

TWIR emails can also be read at www.chelsearobotics.org The posts will be found under the FTC 6-8 menu.

Message From the Coaches:

Keep up the great work. Just a few weeks till our first scrimmage!

Huge shout out to all the parent helpers this week. I appreciate the help.Please continue to give us a hand! We have no one signed up this week.

Java Programmers - Please create your github.com account.

Seeking Engineers and those in STEM based fields. Part of FIRST’s mission is to connect our students to those who use STEM in their work lives. If you are that person, or know someone that would like to talk to our students, please let me know. We can use technology - so video conferencing is definitely possible.

Coach Marka

Schedule: All events at Chelsea Robotics Center unless noted otherwise

10/07 - Monday

6-8, Team Meeting (All Students)

10/09 - Wednesday

6-8, Team Meeting (All Students)
6:30, Fundraising Committee Meeting

10/10 - Thursday

8-9, Booster Meeting

10/12 - Saturday

10-2 pm, Team Meeting (All Students)
Noon - Student & Family potluck, come see the robot progress

Team Google Calendar Link - All robotics activities will be on our Google Calendar with updates posted as they come up.

Gremlins

After a quick pause early in the week to wait for parts the Gremlins jumped in to work hard on Wednesday and Saturday. The intake has been assembled and tested. We'll need a couple of quick modifications on Monday and then we'll be able to mount the intake and the 4-bar to the robot and hopefully pick up samples from the sub and deliver to the lower net.

We're also moving forward with the linear slides that will allow delivery to the high net and enable the first stage climb.

Glitch

The robot is together and we need to wire it up and start testing so we can identify issues, and potential changes we’ll need with the climb. This week we will be focusing on Claw and digging into the notebook.

Surge

I’m very proud of what everyone has accomplished so far. This next week we are looking to finish up the claw designs and do some more programming. Expect us to finish putting together the claw mechanism and the stage 1 climber. We are also going to start working on drive practice so everyone is familiar with driving the robot for our first competition.

Crash

I just want to say how proud I am of everyone’s work so far! We got the linear slides and intake mounted onto the robot and it works really cleanly! Next step is the hopper and refinement. The 4 bar is progressing smoothly with help of one of our programmers Chris Lesser teaching our young engineers the mathematics of how to find our gear ratios needed for the mechanism!Next step is working with fabrication mentors to start cutting out the parts and then finishing up the claw mechanism.

Parent Coordinator

If you are interested in helping our Parent Coordinator provide food for our Young Engineers, please contact Kyle MacDonal.