2015

Offseason & Community Outreach

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This year the team focused mostly on projects and community outreach during the offseason. We built a t-shirt cannon onto our 2014 robot, made a trifold board about our team, and filmed videos for recruitment. We attended Grange Fair, 4thFest, Ag Progress Days, a Spikes Game, and 4 family science nights. Two of our team members won the 4-H State Achievement Days robotics competition. The team ran a food stand at the PA Junior Horse Championship show and held a bake sale at Tractor Supply as fundraisers.

Davis

President #BecuzPrezDavis

James

Vice President & Teen Council Representative

Haley

Secretary

Glenn

Treasurer

Sarah

Communications Officer

Nathaniel

Safety Officer

The Officers

RECYCLE RUSH was a recycling-themed game played by two Alliances of three robots each. Robots scored points by stacking plastic totes on scoring platforms, capping those stacks with recycling containers, and placing pool noodle "litter" in the recycling containers or a certain area of the field. Extra points could be earned by moving totes and containers during "autonomous mode," when the robots must operate using pre-programmed instructions, and cooperating with the other alliance to stack special totes in the last 20 seconds of the game.

This image, created by a member of another FIRST team, explains how much different stacks of game pieces were worth. Green rectangles represent recycling containers, gray and yellow rectangles are totes, and the blue lines are "litter"/pool noodles. The yellow totes were only used during autonomous mode ("auto") and for "Coopertition" points ("Co-op") during the last 20 seconds of the game.