Winnovation will be coming back to Winnebago High School’s cafetorium to host the annual Flapjack Challenge (otherwise known as the Pancake Breakfast) December 7th of this year!! The community will be able to view this event starting from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The Flapjack Challenge welcomes the community to come by and watch the Winnovation students compete with 8 different robots. The students are spending around 8 weeks perfecting these 20x20x20 inch minibots to compete in Winnovation’s version of a water game: Water Tower Wipeout. Students learn how to communicate, manufacture, and plan with this opportunity. Winnovation students are selling tickets for the Pancake Breakfast. You may buy tickets at the door. The tickets will cover the cost of the pancakes served in the morning. Pancakes will be $6 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under. You may attend the event without a ticket. There is always an amazing basket raffle taking place, ranging from a new leaf blower to a Chicago Cubs basket. All proceeds will go towards the robotics team to support them for the next season. Are you interested in joining a local robotics team? Well, Team 1625 Winnovation's kickoff is on Tuesday, 9/24 in the Winnebago High School Cafetorium! During kickoff, we will give a brief description of what the handbook entails. Questions will be answered after. We will also hand out a survey asking you what your interested in and what you already know. All that is required is a parent or legal guardian to come with you. Kickoff is from 6:00pm-8:00pm. See you there!!
On July 27th, Teams 1625 Winnovation, 3352 Flaming Monkeys, 4655 Stateline Robotics and 2039 Rockford Robotics co-hosted the Annual Rock-River Robotics Off Season Competition, in addition to the hosting teams 29 teams attended. There were over 100 volunteers for setup on July 26th and for the day of the competition on July 27th. It was a great competition. Thanks to all the teams that attended and everybody who came out!! R2OC is an annual Off-Season Competition that we co-host with teams 3352 Flaming Monkeys, 4655 Stateline Robotics, and 2039 Rockford Robotics. This season is our 12th annual R2OC Event and will be hosted at Rock Valley College on July 27th. Media day is on July 25th and will take place at 110 N Pecatonica St Winnebago Illinois. Media Day and R2OC are free to attend. Come check it out!
Winnovation's ice cream social is a chance for interested students
to get a small taste on what Winnovation is all about on the inside! join us this June 12 for ice cream, laughs, and bots! 110 N Pecatonica ST. Inside the Winnovation Bot Shop CAMP IS COMING SOON!! Fun-O-Vation is coming up soon, starting June 10 through the 14!! This camp is a week long STEAM learning experience, introducing youth to science, engineering, and FIRST programs!!
Come join us at the Seven Rivers Regional in Lacrosse, WI! The event will happen at The Lacrosse Center on April 5th and 6th!! The arena will be open on the 4th for practice matches and volunteer opportunities! Matches on Friday and Saturday will start at 8:00am! There will be concessions, competing robots to watch and awards to be given out!! We will also be handing out high note and normal note earrings and buttons!!
Iowa Regional was this past Friday and Saturday. We ended up being an Alliance Captain on the 8th Alliance. We did excellent throughout the entire event including qualification matches and finals. Even though we ended up getting eliminated in Round 3 of semi-finals we still have high hopes for the Seven Rivers regional. During the time in between we will be making improvements on our robot, fine tune coding, replace some parts that were damaged during Iowa and prepare for lacrosse. Our early crew for Seven rivers Regional will be leaving on April 3rd and everyone else will leave on April 4th! check us out on blue alliance, we appreciate the support! Come join us at the Iowa Regional in Cedar Falls, IA on March 22nd and 23rd. The event will happen inside of the UNI Dome. For the majority of the day, there will be concessions and competing robots to watch! We will also be providing 3D printed Crescendo high note and normal note earrings and buttons!
The 1625 Annual Open House was this past Sunday, March 10th! Thanks to everyone who came to see the Bot Shop and see our engineering process! We unfortunately didn't have our robot operational for the Open House, but our efforts were able to be shown. Along with our robot, there was a 20-year memorial set up, as this is our 20th season of FIRST. There was also a table with buttons and a tri-fold poster with an explanation of FIRST and a summary of our team this season. Our sponsor presentation was also displayed, rolling continuously from a projector on the garage door. Thanks to cookie providers for adding a sweet treat to our open house!
Again, thanks to anyone who came to the open house! We are excited to continue to document our progress (and share it with you) through the season! |
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