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526 posts from the build season and beyond.
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FRC Day 3 Build Blog
Day 3: Progress in Prototypes Prototyping Double Wheel Vertical Flywheel Today, we worked on assembling the Double Wheel Vertical Flywheel. Taking the parts from last build, we assembled it using the new VersaPlanetary gearboxes and encoders we received. We assembled the flywheel to our previous…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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FRC Day 2 Build Blog
Day 2: Prototyping Today, we continued our work on prototyping designs for the shooter, intake, and drivebase. Our programming team also worked through a variety of projects including camera calibration and configuring the RoboRIOS. Shooters Double Wheel Horizontal Flywheel We assembled the feeder…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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FRC Day 1 Build Blog
Day 1: Kickoff & Testing Today was the first day of the FRC build season. The new game, FIRST Steamworks, was revealed, and we began evaluating strategies and testing prototype mechanisms for our 2017 robot. Helpful Links The game manual and rules are linked below. All team members should…
2017 FRC Build Season · Email · Parents · Students
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Bellarmine VEX Tournament 2016
By John Vu This past weekend Bellarmine hosted its Annual Bellarmine VEX Tournament with a total of 69 teams from all over the Bay Area competing. Six teams from Team 254 competed against an assortment of designs and robots to make it past the qualification matches. By the end of qualifiers, three…
VEX Robotics
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2016 FRC Championship
Overview This past weekend, from Tuesday until Saturday, we participated in the FIRST Robotics Competition World Championships in Saint Louis, Missouri. On Tuesday, a smaller group of students left early to set up the pit and make sure everything would be set up for when the rest of the students…
FIRST Robotics · Tournaments
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2016 VEX World Championship
This past week, VEX Team 254C travelled to Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the 2016 VEX Worlds Championship. 254C competed in the Arts division at worlds. In total, there were four other high school divisions, each consisting of 100 teams from around the world. By the end of the 250…
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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Silicon Valley Regional Champion
This past weekend, we participated in the Silicon Valley Regional hosted by Google. Qualifications Throughout the qualification matches, the work we put in over the past few weeks payed off as we performed stronger in many areas than we had at CVR. We overall performed well, consistently crossing…
Tournaments
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Central Valley Regional Champion
Team 254 just returned from the Central Valley Regional. Qualifications During the Central Valley Regional, from Thursday to Sunday, we competed with a variety of teams from all throughout California. Throughout the qualification matches, our robot, Dropshot, performed solidly, and despite one…
Tournaments
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Dropshot Reveal
Team 254 proudly presents our 2016 entry into the FIRST Robotics Competition: Dropshot. Dropshot will be competing at the Central Valley Regional this weekend, followed by the Silicon Valley Regional and the last single FIRST Championship. More information on the robot.
2016 FRC Build Season · Announcements
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2016 Duel In Diablo VEX Tournament
This past Saturday, VEX teams 254E and 254F travelled to Concord, to compete in the Duel in Diablo Nothing but Net VEX Tournament. At the tournament, they competed against 27 other teams from around the area. Both teams performed very well throughout the qualification matches. 254E, with just a…
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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2015 Tracy Triangle VEX Tournament
Yesterday, VEX teams 254B, 254D, 254E, 254F, 254G, & 254H attended the Tracy Triangle VEX Tournament. With over 80 teams, this was the largest VEX tournament our teams attended this season. Throughout the tournament, all 254 teams performed very well. By the end of the qualification matches, 254B…
Tournaments · VEX Robotics
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FRC Kickoff
This Saturday kicked off the first day of the 2016 FRC season with this year’s game, Stronghold. After the initial game reveal, both students and mentors gathered in the robotics lab to analyze this game’s rules and come up with strategies to tackle this year’s challenge. Once kickoff wrapped up…
2016 FRC Build Season