Last week, FRC Team 16, better known as the Bomb Squad, traveled to Little Rock to participate in the Rock City Regional and came out on top as the 2017 Rock City Champions. Their next competition will be at the Midwest Regional in Chicago, in a few weeks, before attending the World Championship in Houston.
The 2017 FIRST Robotics seasons game is FIRST Steamworks, a steampunk themed game, where students are challenged to build a robot to help prepare an airship for lift off.
The Rock City Regional included 51 teams from 12 different states. The games started Thursday and teams attended practice matches to have their robots inspected. On Friday, qualification matches began followed by more qualification matches on Saturday. At the end of the qualification rounds the team was the fourth seed. As part of the competition the Bomb Squad was able to choose an alliance with other teams before proceeding to finals.
In the alliance selection, the Bomb Squad accepted an offer to be in alliance with team 3310, known as Black Hawk and in the elimination rounds they paired up with team 3991, Knight Vision. The alliance later won several matches, leading to the Regional Championship title. The alliance worked together to transport gears to an airship and successfully got four rotors turning during a match. All of the robots were able to climb a rope and board the airship as well.
All three teams will be attending the World Championships. The Bomb Squad will be streaming the events live on their website http://frcteam16.org
The Bomb Squad is a robotics team for students grades 9-12 in the Twin Lakes Area. Additional matches will be announced on a later date.
For more information email the Bomb Squad at mailto:frcteam16@gmail.com.
The 2017 FIRST Robotics seasons game is FIRST Steamworks, a steampunk themed game, where students are challenged to build a robot to help prepare an airship for lift off.
The Rock City Regional included 51 teams from 12 different states. The games started Thursday and teams attended practice matches to have their robots inspected. On Friday, qualification matches began followed by more qualification matches on Saturday. At the end of the qualification rounds the team was the fourth seed. As part of the competition the Bomb Squad was able to choose an alliance with other teams before proceeding to finals.
In the alliance selection, the Bomb Squad accepted an offer to be in alliance with team 3310, known as Black Hawk and in the elimination rounds they paired up with team 3991, Knight Vision. The alliance later won several matches, leading to the Regional Championship title. The alliance worked together to transport gears to an airship and successfully got four rotors turning during a match. All of the robots were able to climb a rope and board the airship as well.
All three teams will be attending the World Championships. The Bomb Squad will be streaming the events live on their website http://frcteam16.org
The Bomb Squad is a robotics team for students grades 9-12 in the Twin Lakes Area. Additional matches will be announced on a later date.
For more information email the Bomb Squad at mailto:frcteam16@gmail.com.
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