March 13th through the 15th our team attended the Wisconsin Regional. Our team decided to make a few modifications to the robot after St. Louis. We brainstormed on how to make our good robot even better. We decided to make a Lexan flipper that would enable us to remove balls faster from the overpass and we ordered different gears that would make the robot 50% faster. We knew that changing the gear train would be risky because we had a very limited amount of time to swap out parts in Milwaukee. Luckily, the schedule in Milwaukee worked to our advantage and our great pit crew was able to make all modifications between the preliminary matches. The Wisconsin regional surpassed all of our expectations! We won the regional with alliance partners 171 and 2549. Special thanks go out to team 171 for picking us and assembling a great alliance. Team work was critical and our alliance performed like they had been working together for a very long time. The memories from Milwaukee will last a lifetime. We were very happy to also win the Underwriters Laboratory Industrial Safety Award for second time. Now, it’s off to Atlanta for the FIRST Championship which will be held from April 17th to April 19th.

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