Posts about practice

Last practice we talked about team jobs and assignments. Since last year there was lots of skipping around and not one task was focused on.[…]

Time: 6:00-8:45 Attendence: Gavin, Preston, Jordan, Adhira, Eric, Greyson, and Nick Coaches: Mr. Duff, Coach Dave Today there is just an overall of what occurred;[…]

Time: 6:00-9:00 pm Attendance: Preston, Gavin, Nick, Eric, Grayson, Adhira. Coaches: Mr. Grath, Mr. Bodey During this Practice a shipment came in. We are now[…]

Time: 9:00-12:00 Attendance: Jordan, Adhira, Grayson, Nick, and Makela Coaches: Mr. Grath Jordan: Jordan finished the attaching the front panel to the T-Shirt robot, and[…]

Time: 6:00-9:00 Attendance: Preston, Grayson, Gavin, Nick, Eric, Adhira, and Lisa Coaches: Mr. Grath, Mr. Bodey, and Mr. Duff Preston: Tested strength of the new[…]

Time: 9:00-12:00 Attendance: Adhira, Preston, Gavin, Grayson, Eric, Kyle, Nick, and Jordan Coaches: Mr. Grath and Mr. Bodey Gavin: Continued to learn about gears and[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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

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[…]

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[…]

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We fixed the horizontal arm mechanism, which was slipping. After that, we drove the robot around and troubleshot issues with the hand servo. Kyle and[…]

Attendence: Preston, Gavin, Nicholas, Marcus Duff Finished attaching supported DC motors for horizontal arm. Found out that the slider in the arm came loose so[…]

Demonstrated robot to WACO Board of Directors and Collins Aerospace. Went over FTC game rules, how the robot was built and answered general questions about[…]

Carter put the sign on the robot. Gavin finished putting together the vertical arm, while Nick and Eric reconstructed the new hand and did some[…]