Summer Robotics Workshop

This past week, we partnered with several other local robotics teams as well as NASA and Lockheed Martin to host a week-long robotics workshop for sixty elementary- and middle-schoolers.  We had a great time doing a variety of activities, from throwing water balloons to teaching kids to build robots.

During the week, the kids got to participate in science activities including launching balloon rockets and building a protective "spacecraft" to safely land an egg launched by a slingshot.  Each afternoon, the kids worked in teams of six to build robots out of VEX metal parts to play a game involving racquetballs.  On Saturday, parents got to see all the teams play in an exciting competition very similar to the FIRST Tech Challenge competitions.

PHI had so much fun helping mentor at this year's Summer Robotics Workshop, and we hope to do it again next year.

Mojave Scrimmage

This Saturday we are going to Mojave to participate in an informal scrimmage. The bot is getting ready, as are we. We will be there from 10 AM to 2 PM. The team will be there and will do matches. We hope to have a lot of fun driving and working on the bot.

This is not a drill!! Oh, wait, yes it is!

    We are starting new drills to help us hone in our driving skills. we are doing many new levels including really hard, micky carl, and make you cry. We hope this will kill time, make laughs, and help us drive better.

Scrimmage?

      Minataur (Jigatar, Jiggles) may still be used after all. There is a scrimmage in Mojave this April. The bot is to do demostrations or scrimmages. The team will also be touring the new space progams. We hope to see other teams there too!

No Worlds

We are probabbly not going to worlds this year however, we ae now fundrasing and helping 452 with their robot. We mainly work on their autonomies and do other minor things with the bot. We are now building nemisis bots to give Butters a challenge to get points, or for "awesomeness". Another thing we are doing is working on tutorial videos for Tetrix. The bot has not been used recently, now we are building a magnet ball rig to get more points if we have some other competition. Sadly, we never got to go to the engineering week scrimmage.

After Las Vegas

    Even though we lost at Vegas, we are still mounting a magnet sensor. The bot is going to go to Northrup Grumman later this month to do scrimmage matches. The bot is also getting new servo mounts. We hope Alpha will do well at Worlds.

     

Las Vegas

The competition is in two days. We are now making the final changes to the robot, mainly making new autonomies. Minojigataur (Minotaur, Jiggles, Jigataur) is now recovering from the failure of the "new better lift." We are getting last-muinite driver practice, and strategy. Some of us are very frustrated with the failure of our newest autonomies. We are learning to work with a new platform, for our lift. We just have to finnish the last tweaks. (P.S. The entry on January 19 is INVALID! the real name is the Minojigataur.)