Qualifier 2022-2023 Powerplay went very well! Our day started off rough, losing our first 3 matches. Match 1 was a narrow loss. In match 2 one of our encoders got unplugged, causing our robot to fall. In match 3 we ran without an alliance partner. We ended up in 6th place and we were able to pick alliance partners. We picked the Gearheads and Knights of the Ping Pong Table. We won our first two finalist matches by 1 point! In the last match, we won by more than one point!! We placed 3rd in Think, 1st in Connect, 3rd in Inspire, and were the captains of the winning finalist alliance! We are on our way to state with Gearheads, Robo Raiders, Super SCREAM Bros, & The Knights of the Ping Pong Table! Congrats everyone on an amazing day! Check out our Instagram at @ftc8620 for more pics!
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COVID-19: Helping Our Communities
Our team made hair bonnets for nurses working at SLU hospital. The bonnets help keep hair controlled and we have gotten more requests to make them!
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COVID-19- The Impact On FTC
The Impact of COVID-19 on the WormGear Warriors
As everyone knows the Coronavirus and had a great impact on schooling, sports, and the general economy.
COVID-19 has closed down many schools, if not all. As of March 13th, our coaches decided we should no longer continue meeting. As of March 16, Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, announced the closing of all public schools in Illinois. He also advised that all public and social events be cancelled, which soon led to FIRST events being cancelled.
We had been planning an event, which we called “A Gear in Review”. All teams from our division were to be invited to recap their and show what they learned. The event was to be held on April 4th. Unfortunately, on March 20th that event was also cancelled.
Our team then started to look into ways to help our communities through such tough and unusual situations as this. Our team began looking into hospitals and medical facilities that would accept 3D printed face wear, such as facemasks. After learning SM clinics, SLU hospitals, and Emerson Electric were accepting 3D printed face wear, we soon got to work making them.
After also learning that Anderson hospital in Maryville also started accepting homemade cloth masks, our team split up to buy, cut, and sew cloth. We were lucky enough to receive a donation from a local Walmart for cloth and elastic. Through a personal contact at SLU hospital, our team was asked to make hair “bonnets”, which help nurses contain their hair. (see picture below)
We recently received a request from a CN working at Belleville Memorial Hospital for hair bonnets. We hope to continue to receive requests, as we would like to play our part in keeping others healthy.
Having to do work as a team without physically being in contact was difficult, but thankfully we had lots of help from mentors, coaches, and parents.
As of April 7th, we have made 30 hair bonnets and over 100 masks! We plan on continuing to help our community through this difficult time! We can always use some extra hands……. if anyone is willing to donate cloth, elastic, or money to buy supplies, we would greatly appreciate it! Our community needs you and we are all playing a part in helping our communities stay healthy!
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Meet 3: 1/11/20
In the first match we completed our autonomous, but then had a connection error, preventing us from executing our plan for teleop.
After the issue with our connection, we were unable to complete autonomous, but started teleop by placing the foundation into the build site. We were able to collect 4 blocks throughout teleop and endgame. We got 5 points in autonomous, 7 in teleop, and 20 in endgame, winning 32-21!
In the third match we ended up scoring 59 points, ending in a tie. We did so with the help of our alliance partner who delivered blocks as we stacked. In the end we stacked 4 high, with 5 stones total on the foundation, and one capstone.
In the fourth match that we played, we were able to position the waffle and park over the line during autonomous. In teleop our alliance partner worked on delivering skystones as we worked on stacking. We were able to stack two high and place a total of three stones on the foundation. In endgame we were able to move the foundation out of the build site and both robots on our alliance were able to park. This match ended with a win, 53-12.
In our final match we were able to drag the foundation and score a skystone with our alliance. Both teams were able to park. We stacked 2 high with a capstone. In the end we had four stones on the foundation and pulled it out of the build site. The total score was 79-34
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Meet 2: 12/14/20
- Match one-
Auto: Missed grabbing foundation, Missed parking in building zone
Teleop: Collected stone, Stacked stone, Stacked stone
Endgame: Collected stone, Parked in build site
- Match two-
Auto: One skystone delivered, Stacked skystone, Foundation in build site, did not park
Teleop: Stacked 4 tall
Endgame: Moved Foundation
- Match three-
Auto: Did not park
Teleop: Grabbed two stones, Stacked two tall
Endgame: Missed Capstone, Moved foundation, Parked in build site
- Match four-
Auto: Collected skystone, parked, missed moving foundation
Teleop: Stacked one high, Moved Foundation
Endgame: Parked, Phone fell out but stayed connected
- Match five-
Auto: Delivered skystone, Moved foundation, parked
Teleop: Stacked two skyscrapers, One stone tall
Endgame: Foundation moved, Parked
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meet #1: 2019
Our first run we were able to stack 3 high, almost cap, to get a total of 57 points , the highest points scored throught the whole match.
The second run we were able to stack 5 high, the highest stacked out of the whole meet, get 2 skystones over the bridge in the autonomous, and park in the zone, to tie at 48 points
Our third run we were able to stack 3 high, but unfortunately that was knocked over in the process of capping. In the end we were able to stack 1 high plus the capstone. We were unable to collect the skystones in autonomous, but we were able to park over the line. We lost this match 18 – 40.
Our 4th run we were able to collect one block in autonomous, but barely missed the parking line. We were unable to stack, though our alliance partner was able to stack 3 high, even though that got knocked down. Our alliance partner got the base into the depot adding up to a final 25 points, winning the match.
Our final run we were able to collect the skystones and park over the line and autonomous. We were able to stack 3 blocks high with the help of our alliance partners in tally up, totaling a score of 51 points, beating the opposing alliance.
At the end of the match we came up with the most points scored, highest blocks stacked, and highest high breaking points (which was 30.3)!
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Illinois State Championship
Illinois State Championship was February 23rd and 24th. Most of the team started driving down Friday afternoon because our judging and inspection was during the night up in Elgin. We all met first at the local restaurant Portillo’s for some food and milkshakes and to regroup, then headed to judging. The competition/judging was held at Elgin Community College. We did very well at our judging and inspections passed.
The next day matches started. We had 5 matches plus one surrogate match. Surrogate matches don’t count towards your score. We won 4/5 matches getting 2 relics standing on 3 matches, putting us at 4th seed. We were chosen by Dynamic Signals #7351 (which was the 1st place team) for their alliance. Our other partner was
Cary-Grove Robotics.
We made it past our division finals but we lost in the final finals putting as as finalist alliance 1st pick. We ended up advancing to Super Regionals off of this.
Super Regionals will be in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from March 15th-17th. There will be 34 teams advancing from there. After Super Regionals is Supers.
Overall, it was a very successful competition. We did really well with judging, scored a lot of points on the playing field, and used our scouting skills to make connections for alliances.
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South Central Qualifier
Our first and only qualifier of the season occurred Saturday, February 3rd. CA Henning Elementary School in Troy, Illinois was the site of the event. Our day started early in the morning with judging at 8:50 and inspections at 9:30. We also had to come early to set up the practice field at 7:00 am. Overall, we all thought the judging presentation went very well. We also passed inspections with no problems.
Matches started at 11:00 after opening ceremonies. We played 5 matches through the day, with 32 total matches played by everyone. Our drive team was Jop as coach, Reece as drive train, and Caleb as claw. We won 4 matches and lost one. Our high score was around 300 with Iron Core. We ended up as the #1 seed team. We chose #7129 Robo Raiders as out first pick and #5187 Transistor Titans as our second pick for alliances. We ended up beating 2-0 in semi finals and then winning the competition 2-1 in finals.
During the awards ceremony we won the Motivate award and the Winning Finalist Captain. We also were nominated for other awards like the Control Award. We advanced due to being the Winning Finalist Captain. Our state competition will be on the 23rd and 24th of February in Elgin, Illinois.
Congratulations to all the teams that advanced with us. We are now working hard to improve our robot, notebook, and presentation for State Competition. Wish us luck!
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WMS Meet #3
On Saturday, January 13th, we went to Whiteside Middle School for our 3rd and final meet of the season. Our drive team for the event was Reece on drive train, Caleb on claw, and Jop as the drive coach.
This meet was the smallest we’ve been to, with only 8 teams showing up. During the meet we played 5 matches and won 4 of them. Since there were not a lot of teams, there were only 10 matches the entire day! Our autonomous worked really well through out the day.
The only time it failed was when the wrong program was run. During Tele-Op, we scored an average of 2 glyphs per game adding on to our 1 from autonomous. We attempted to score the relic in all of the matches, but we only scored it in one. We technically scored it earlier but it didn’t count because we brought it over the wall too early. Overall it was a pretty successful day, and we learned a lot that will help us moving to our next competition.
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Our Second Meet at Maryville
On December 16th, our team went to Maryville Christian School to participate in our second meet of this season. We did very well at this meet, winning 4/5 matches. What made this meet very special was that our autonomous did not mess up at all the whole day. It worked perfectly every match.
Our drive team for the day was Reece on drive train, Caleb on the arm, and Gillian/Jop as our Drive Coach. Our top score was about 149.