After 5 long months since last season ended, the 2024-2025 FRC season has officially arrived, and with it, new members of the team. We hosted our Interest Night last Thursday, where we invited all high school students in the Waukesha school district to learn more about FIRST and CORE. About 15 new students have joined our team since the summer, and we are working hard to train and teach them all the skills they need to know.

We also had a busy summer. We attended 3 offseason competitions, visited multiple sponsors, participated in team bonding events, and demonstrated at Waukesha County Fair. But even after a fun and productive summer break, we’re ready to get back into the preseason!

This past Saturday, our team competed at the first annual Leviathan Robotics Rampage Offseason Event. We headed up to Eau Claire a night early, then the next morning we loaded into the vans and headed to the event complex. We played 7 matches, and ended up 9th overall with 14 robots competing. We were selected in the second round by the 2nd alliance, with teams 930 Mukwonago BEARS and 5826 Avis Automata. We lost our first match, but won big in our second, which put us in the semi-finals. After an INCREDIBLE match, we ended up just losing by only 1 single point. While it was a disappointment, it was still an amazing time and a great event! Congrats to 8744 Leviathans for winning their own event!🥳

Last Saturday, our team competed in the Rock River Robotics Off-Season Competition. Before matches started, we made sure to drop off some non-perishable food items for the Rockford Food Drive. As soon as qualification matches began, we started off hot, winning 3 of our first 4 matches. After an unfortunate loss in our last qualifier of the day, we ended up placing 20th out of 33 teams. We were selected second by the 6th alliance, with alliance captain 1792 Round Table Robotics and alliance partners 461 Westside Boiler Invasion and 6651 Golden Bots. We lost our first match, but won the second. In a very close 3rd match, we ended up just losing by 7 points. We all had a bunch of fun competing against some pretty incredible teams!

Also, congratulations to 2238 Gear It Forward, 111 Wildstang, 112 Plus One, and 2704 Roaring Robotics for winning the event!

On June 29th, we competed at the Laser Lights Offseason Event. We started off strong, winning our first 4 matches and hitting 2nd place. We then lost some momentum, losing our next 4 matches. In our final match, we set an event high score of 121 points! In alliance selections, we were selected by team #2506 and team #6421 as the second pick of the 4th alliance. We lost our first elim to the #1 alliance, then won our next match to compete in the semifinals. We then lost a good match, but we all had so much fun! HUGE THANK YOU to Kettle Moraine Laser Robotics for hosting an incredible event! We can’t wait to hopefully come back next year!

Well, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that we finished our Impact Video today! But unfortunately, we misunderstood the requirements on how to submit our video, so our video will not be played at competition if we win. Either way, you can go watch the video here!

Huge news! We officially have a completely built robot! The mechanical sub-team has been working super hard since we got the drawings last Saturday afternoon, and their hard work has paid off. Programming is now coding the robot!

On the outreach side, we have submitted the Woodie Flowers Award and our Executive Summaries. Our Impact essay is being worked on, and will be submitted tonight.

As usual, we are all super excited for the Northern Lights Regional, which is only 2 weeks away! Can’t wait to see you all there!

It is week 4 of the build season, and we are getting closer and closer to our first competition in Duluth! Since our last update 2 weeks ago, we have gotten numerous things checked off our “to-do” list. We officially have CAD drawings for our shooter mechanism, and have begun building our robot! Scouting has been programming a scouting database app, where we can upload and analyze match data and results. Programming worked on April Tag tracking, and got it so our robot can orient itself to face the tag. From a business perspective, they are working on award submissions and gathering Impact data.

We are all super excited for Northern Lights!

This week, our team began prototyping and building the playing field. Even two snow storms couldn’t stop us from (safely) coming to meetings and getting work done. The playing field is mostly made of wood and is used to practice and test the robot. Several members of the team are working on prototypes for the the main piece manipulator. Both prototypes use wheels to pickup and shoot the new ring game piece.

*If you haven’t seen the game reveal, click HERE!*

FRC Kickoff has officially arrived, and we couldn’t be more excited! We already have multiple prototype ideas and are working to complete our robot as soon as possible! But that said, we still have a lot to get done in less than 8 weeks before our first competition in Duluth, Minnesota. We will be posting here weekly on our progress, so stay tuned!

*If you haven’t seen the game reveal, click HERE!*

These past few days, the 3 Waukesha high schools hosted their annual 8th Grade Interest Nights. 8th graders looking to attend the high schools came and learned what the daily routine looks like and were introduced to the extracurriculars that each school has to offer. CORE had a table at each school and we handed out over 150 flyers and spoke with hundreds more. Many 8th graders are interested in joining our team next year. If you are interested and haven’t yet signed up, scan the code below and fill out the form! Thanks, and enjoy the rest of your day!