2018 FRC Season Game Reveal & Kickoff!

Our 2018 Season game challenge is here! 

We gathered at CFI for the game reveal early Saturday morning. The excitement was flowing, even if you can't tell from the somber/serious faces in the first pic! The smiles picked up more as we watched the live broadcast from FIRST and then later after we took time to break up into groups, read sections of the manual and then present them to the team. 

Programming team got right to work. locked away in their cave from the noise in the main room. 

Prototyping begins!

Field elements being built.  See that mess in the background? (reason for the last blog post...)

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Grace & Ryan working on the scale parts. 

Sydney & Trista handling the next step. 

Wesly & Gavin working on prototypes. 
See that water bottle collection? It only gets worse. Time to get a cooler and bring in reusable bottles! 

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Why do Hunter & Trista look deep in thought here?  We may never know. 

Getting the scale assembled. 

The serious look.  Mmm-hmm Aiden, we know you better. 

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After going over the game manual and having lunch, we drive right in to projects.  Some building field elements, some start prototyping, some begin the strategizing sessions to help us decided what goals we need/want to achieve. The room was buzzing with activity and it was a productive first weekend of Build Season! 

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And when you build field elements they must be tested properly!  Which is why we keep lil Chimichangas around. 

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It's also important to practice safety first, but a little singing and dancing is allowable. Sydney show us the way.