Only 2 weeks left un­til our first competition in La Crosse, and CORE is get­ting pre­pared.
We are mak­ing sig­nif­i­cant progress on the ro­bot. Me­chan­i­cal at­tached the fi­nal coral ma­nip­u­la­tor to the ro­bot, as well as mak­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions to the el­e­va­tor and mak­ing more progress on a climber. De­sign worked on el­e­va­tor draw­ings, de­sign­ing mo­tor mounts and re­did hex shaft mount­ing brack­ets. Con­trols helped pro­to­type and mount the cam­era on the ro­bot. Pro­gram­ming con­tin­ued work on au­tonomous code.
Out­reach sub­mit­ted their Im­pact pre­sen­ta­tion boards and re­ceived those back on Sat­ur­day. They also de­signed and printed hun­dreds of but­tons and con­tin­ued up­dat­ing the Judges Book.

Can’t wait for Seven Rivers!

An­other week has flown by, and the ro­bot is com­ing to­gether nicely! De­sign con­tin­ued work­ing on the of­fi­cial ma­nip­u­la­tor parts. Me­chan­i­cal worked on the climber and coral ma­nip­u­la­tors and el­e­va­tor cas­cad­ing and be­gan pro­to­typ­ing an al­gae sys­tem. Con­trols helped pro­to­type and made ro­bot prepa­ra­tions. Pro­gram­ming worked on the el­e­va­tor and a sys­tem to track April Tags.

Out­reach con­tin­ued writ­ing their Im­pact pre­sen­ta­tion and fin­ished the vi­sual aids. They also worked on but­tons for the pre­sen­ta­tion.

One fi­nal note is our team’s Instagram ac­count also just reached 1,000 fol­low­ers, so that’s a big mile­stone for us!

We are halfway to our first com­pe­ti­tion, and lots of progress is be­ing made. De­sign fin­ished el­e­va­tor draw­ings and gave them to the Me­chan­i­cal sub­team. Me­chan­i­cal was then able to fin­ish and mount the el­e­va­tor on the drive train. Pro­gram­ming con­tin­ued all pre­vi­ous work from last week, and scout­ing helped work on the out­reach video. Also, af­ter weeks of draft­ing, writ­ing and edit­ing, out­reach was fi­nally able to suc­cess­fully sub­mit their Im­pact Award.

Of­fi­cially 1 month has past since Reef­s­cape was re­leased. Our team is mak­ing great progress! We have a work­ing climber and fi­nal­ized a coral scor­ing pro­to­type. Ex­actly 6 weeks un­til Seven Rivers Regional!

2 weeks ago, FIRST re­leased the 2025 FRC game, Reef­s­cape. (If you didn’t see the re­lease video, click HERE)

Since then, our team has been very busy prepar­ing for our first competition in LaCrosse, Wis­con­sin on March 20-22. We have strate­gized, pro­to­typed (and re-pro­to­typed), built field el­e­ments, up­dated pro­gram­ming, and de­signed frames and parts. We’re fi­nal­iz­ing pro­to­type ideas to start man­u­fac­tur­ing, and we plan on hav­ing a func­tion­ing ro­bot by Feb­ru­ary 16th, just in time for us to at­tend a lo­cal scrim­mage.

On the other side of the team, Out­reach/busi­ness has also been very busy work­ing on award sub­mis­sions and prepar­ing for the Wis­con­sin FLL State Cham­pi­onship, which is hosted by our team. 

9 weeks and count­ing un­til Seven Rivers Re­gional.

On Sat­ur­day, FIRST re­vealed the 2025 FRC game, Reef­s­cape. Our team spent the first half of the day go­ing over safety pro­to­cols and other var­i­ous slideshows. Af­ter the game was of­fi­cially re­leased, We spent the rest of the day talk­ing about strat­egy, ways to play the game, and how to build our ro­bot. We split up into sep­a­rate groups, and came back with mul­ti­ple ideas on how to suc­ceed in this year’s game. We look for­ward to try­ing to over­come the chal­lenges in the game!

The kick­off event we’ve all been wait­ing for is fi­nally here! This Sat­ur­day, FIRST re­veals the game we will be play­ing. We can’t wait!!

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!