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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! Our Annual Open House is this Sunday March 10th 2pm-4pm! We will be showcasing our progress this season, Team history, and information about FIRST and the FTC and FLL teams mentored by Winnovation. We will also be providing cookies!  Since January 6th, our team has made lots of progress on the robot design! Our CADing is mostly finished–there are some changes being made occasionally but nothing too major. Our part manufacturing team is about 85% of the way complete. We have been piecing together a great sum of the robot already because of the welding going on in our shop. Welding is helping us not only assemble our robot, but also envision and make changes to the bot when needed. This is because the CAD design could look and turn out differently from how the robot will actually look and function. Our robot will be expected to shoot, throw, and hang on the chains attached to the stage. The team expects to be completed around the time of our Open House, which is March 10th from 2:00—4:00pm at our bot shop. At our Open House we plan to showcase our robot for this season and provide cookies!!! Since 2022, Winnovation has been an ambassador of M.E. FIRST, working to ensure anyone at FIRST Competitions can't go without. This year, we are continuing this tradition in being ambassadors with M.E. FIRST by providing menstrual products at both regional competitions we will attend this year. We are also going to share what M.E. FIRST is and why other teams should join in with us.  Last Saturday was the kickoff of this season's game Crescendo! Crescendo is a music styled game. The game pieces are called notes. You can either score in the amp or the speaker. You are also able to hang on the chain on what's called the stage. The last type of scoring is to spotlight the microphone which is on top of the stage. To score the human player has to throw a note onto the microphone. Check out these videos to learn more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keeDyFxzY4 https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.net/frc2024/Manual/2024GameManual.pdf This coming January 6th, Winnovation will be hosting a watch party for the new Crescendo game release. At 10:00 AM, we will be having breakfast brought by team members before the stream begins. Shortly after breakfast, the kickoff stream will begin at 11:00 AM and end approximately at noon. After receiving information about the game and collecting the rulebook, students will break away for an hour before returning to shop to analyze the game further and develop goals for our season!!  |
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