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WACO Aerobotics 5140 Team Meeting

Practice 08/11/2025

Time: 6:00-9:00 Attendance: Adhira, Nick, Gavin, Jordan, Eric, Grayson, Mr. Barth, and Mr. Bodey Objective: Continue preparations for the session, learning about road runner. Finishing[…]

Practice 8/9/2025

Time: 9:00-12:00 Attendance: Preston, Gavin, Grayson, Adhira, Jordan, and Nick Coaches: Dave and Stephen Objective: Debug new practice robot, and reassemble the T-Shirt robot Preston:[…]

Practice: July 26

Preston, Dave, Jordan, Kyle, and Makayla all were present. Everyone started by taking the t-shirt bot apart, and getting ready to paint. After that, we[…]

Practice 7/21/25

Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm Attendance: Eric, Gavin, Nick, Jordan, Preston, Kyle, Dave, Stephen. Continue making progress on the t-shirt cannon robot transition into the cosmetic[…]

Practice 7/19/25

Time: Sat. 9:00-12:00 Members: Gavin, Tanner, and Nick Coaches: Dave Today was a productive practice with many things getting down that prepare for the session[…]

July 14, 2025 – Practice

Time: 6:00-9:00 Members present: Preston, Tanner, Kyle, Jordan, Nick, and Grayson Mentors present: Dave and Steven Nick and Jordan: We worked on rearranging the battery[…]

July 12, 2025 – Practice

Mikayla and Grayson continued creating a new version of last years FTC robot. Working with joints a rack and pinion to lift and extend the[…]

Practice – July 7th

Today’s practice wasn’t fully attended, with only 3 students, resulting in a total of 4 people in attendance. With this, Eric and Tanner (two of[…]

Practice – June 23

Tanner, Gavin, and Jordan sketched and started designing a wire management box for the t-shirt bot. Eric and Nick built a prototype for a new[…]

June 21, 2025 – Practice

Welcome Grayson to the Aerobotics Team! Micaela and Gray got an intro to last seasons FTC robot, controlling and getting things plugged back together. Gavin[…]

June 14, 2025 – Field Test

Tested TShirt Cannon at Miami East High School stadium. Apparently forgot to charge battery because it quickly died and had to push to destinations. Wrapping[…]

T-Shirt Cannon Robot

June 9th Practice

Date: 6/9/2025 6:00pm – 9:00pm Attendance: Gavin Bodey, Preston Duff, Eric Vallery, Jordan, Kyle, Nick, Coach Bodey, and Coach Dave Plan: Get the T-shirt canon[…]

Practice – June 7th

As a team, we worked on the t-shirt cannon: As individuals:

Practice – 6/2/2025

Began final assembly of main collection tank and canon barrels. Collection tank parts cut, dry fit and glued.

5/31/2025 – Practice

Assembled T-Shirt Canon Mark III and test fired. Repeated firing was successful as well as firing tests using remote control trigger. Designed pre-load system for[…]

Practice: 5/17/25

We showed of the t-shirt cannon at a school STEM convention in the Air Force Museum. Here is the take away Today We switched the[…]

Practice 5/12/25

Thursday is outreach day. Today we are preparing for taking the t-shirt cannon to a stem convention at Dayton national air-force museum. This includes some[…]

Practice 4/19/25

Our Gratuitous coach has done it again. Providing Countless resources for the T-Shirt Cannon Robot free of cost. So today we took some inventory or[…]

Practice 4/14/25

All go for the T-shirt cannon robot. Brainstorming time! New member added: Tanner Noble. ~ Attendance: Preston, Eric, Gavin, Tanner, Jordan.