The first week of the season has passed with much progress made. The Build team has solidified a strategy for our robot and has started the process of determining which methods will work best to accomplish the task. The Programming Team has been setting up the systems we will use for the robot and has laid the foundation for programming in the next five weeks. The Business Team has been contacting new and returning sponsors and setting a team budget, along with continuing to update our followers through social media platforms and our website’s gallery.

Wish us luck on the next week of work!

We are proud to be a part of the 2017 FIRST Robotics season: FIRST STEAMWORKS! For the next six weeks, our team will be designing and creating our robot for our regional this spring. Captains this year are Laura Mak(Captain), Tori Schmidt(Business), Sam True(Build), and Waweru Kariuki(Programming).

Click this link for the informational video about this season! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMiNmJW7enI

This weekend, our team participated in the North Star Regional alongside sixty other teams from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. We did our best, placed 19th overall, and were chosen to be on the 8th alliance with teams 2239 and 5826! We owe a great “thank you” to all volunteers, judges, mentors, and parents for making this event possible, and to especially to Dean Kamen, who surprised us all by appearing to watch and speak to the two regionals in the area. We are so grateful for this opportunity and are excited for next time!

We will be attending the North Star Regional at the Mariucci Arena  on the University of Minnesota campus on April 7th-9th. We would love to have everyone come out! It’s free admissions and it’s free fun! We will have buttons, posters and more exciting additions to the Tritons Pits!

Come support the Trinity Tritons!

Last Saturday, our team participated in the Eagan Week Zero Competition. Being the first event of the season, its object was to help teams learn more about the competiton, know what their robot needs to improve on, and give an opportunity for new members and spectators to experience what a FIRST robotics competition includes. We began scouting and focusing on our strategy of going over the defenses. Over all, our team did very well in what we aimed to do, and learned what we still need to practice and improve on before the regional this April.

With so many things accomplished, our Build season is quickly approaching the end. We will be ready for battle with our new standard finished. With our creative Business team, we will being having a little surprise in our pits, so come check us out! Our Build team has our arm and basket wired and running. We are almost done with the bumpers. Drive Practice and Humane Player Practice have also started early this week. The Programming Team has also gotten all of our sensors working. All of our autonomous modes are being developed now. We will be competing at Eagan High School for Week Zero and we will have more updates as the week goes on.

5 MORE DAYS

Week 4 came to a close with many accomplishments! The Business team created ideas for a standard and let the team vote for thier favortite option, and furthered their work on gaining sponsors, managing the budget, finding design ideas for this year’s tshirts, and updating the website. The Programming team made the chassis wireless, implemented many programs into the robot, and further worked on the autonomous code and the sensors. Lastly, the Build team finished the drive train, built more defenses, ordered the Scrublin parts that will be coming shortly, and the drive team started practicing to drive the robot. Next week’s goals among all teams include creating the standard, ordering tshirts, building the arms of the robot, and finishing the autonomous codes.