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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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SIA Awards Dinner
Team 254 recently attended the Semiconductor Industry Association’s 35th Annual Awards Dinner where we met with Dean Kamen and spoke to the association to spread the message of STEM.
FIRST Robotics · Public Relations
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Bellarmine VEX Results
Today's Bellarmine VEX tournament was one of the best-run ones in years, and to top it off two of our VEX teams won the tournament. This was the only tournament this season in which all 7 254 teams were competing, and all of them did extremely well. 254C had an impressive undefeated (6-0-0)…
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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San Ramon VEX Results
This Saturday, we had our first VEX tournament of the season at San Ramon. 6 of our teams (A-F) were present at the competition. Amazingly, all 6 of these teams got into elimination rounds. 3 of them were eliminated in quarterfinals, while the other 3 were eliminated in semifinals. So, while we did…
VEX Robotics
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CalGames 2012
This past weekend Team 254 attended CalGames 2012 at Woodside High School, an off-season replay of the FRC game Rebound Rumble. After 4 wins and 4 losses in qualification matches, 254 was the first alliance choice for the #1 seed, Team 971. Later joined by Team 766, the #1 alliance proceeded…
FIRST Robotics · Tournaments
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Calgames – Happening Now
This weekend, Team 254 is competing in the 12th annual WRRF Calgames Offseason Tournament. Watch the webcast of the tournament here!
FIRST Robotics
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10/3 Whole team meeting and CalGames Info
At the team meeting today we went through a lot of information rather quickly, and especially a lot to do with CalGames. So here is a brief recap of all of the information from the team meeting: VEX Captains have requested the number of CAD Licenses, and we can begin installing them on the team…
Tournaments
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New Season Update
Already seven weeks into the start of the new school year, we have had many events, including workshops and team meetings, to kick off the new robotics season. Our first mandatory meeting for the team was at the Introduction meeting, where all incoming freshmen, new members, and existing members…
Administrative · VEX Robotics
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Media Week of September 3rd
The new 2012 team sweatshirt is moving closer to being completed, we have a good design we are running with and it looks like it’ll be done soon. We have our first Graphic Design meeting of the season after the whole team meeting on Wednesday. It will be located in the the new robotics lab […]
Graphics & Animation
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FRC Pre-Season Planning
As the robotics school year ramps up the FRC team is also planning for next season. We will be having a planning meeting in the near future so check your emails for any upcoming event. This meeting will discuss any issues we had last season and possible solutions to them for the season to come. […]
FIRST Robotics
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Graphic Design Meetings
The graphic design and animation meetings will be coming up starting next Wednesday, the 5th of September. I’m hoping to see a great turn out this year. It’ll be great if I can get more people coming to these. Remember, come to the Graphic Design Meetings, we have cookies.
Graphics & Animation
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VEX Tournament Meeting
With the VEX season set to start Thursday, we can now begin to plan for the Bellarmine VEX Tournament in November. The first parent and volunteer meeting will occur within the next few weeks. The number of volunteers we get from this first meeting will determine how smoothly the ride will be all…
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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Shockwave Update
There was some difficulty using shockwave today. The connections were working, but the motors would not turn. A group of us troubleshooted this through the afternoon, but to no avail. Hopefully we can get it back up and runnning soon.
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