Our First Year
Established during the 2001 FIRST Robotics Competition Season, Team 930 has certainly come a long way. One of our former teammates recently sent us this clip from CBS 58 News from our first year. Click on the image below to see our 2001 bot in action!
Rotary Club Demo
The team hosted the Mukwonago Rotary Club last Thursday at the High School. Representatives from the team discussed the robot design in addition to explaining what the robotics team means to them. Thank you to the Rotary club for once again supporting Team 930 as one of our sponsors!
Nathan, our Programming Lead, explains how the vision tracking system was programmed on the bot.
SWENext
SWEBears is the Mukwonago Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers youth program (SWENext) hosted by Team 930. SWEBears is a group dedicated to working with young women to explore their passion for STEM and provide guidance on what career paths are available. The group will have opportunities to speak with other women who currently work in the field as well as engage with local companies and colleges. If you know a student that is interested in becoming a part of SWEBears, please email team930@gmail.com for more information.
SCRATCH & WIN
As part of our numerous outreach programs, our programming team is running a virtual introduction to programming class aimed at students grades 4th - 6th. Not only does this class give younger students a head start into the world of programming using a system called “Scratch”, but it also introduces those students to Team 930 to help foster strong team membership in the future. We have 25 students enrolled, and the first meeting was a huge success! We look forward to hosting more outreach events like this in the future.
Ed, one of our programming team students instructs our first Scratch & Win class
Robot Updates
Meet our 2021 robot, Polaris!
Our team has put a huge emphasis on our vision tracking system this season. We learned a lot from 2020 even though the season was cut short, and it allowed us to develop a really impressive model based shooter. This will allow our turret to find the target and accurately gauge distance and angle to put the ball on target with precision and accuracy with limited input from the drive team. We’re really excited to refine this system over the next few weeks in preparation for our competition submissions.
Our bot performing tests for the limelight vision based tracking system. Notice how well it tracks the goal even when the bot is in motion.
Our electromechanical and programming teams have done a fantastic job adapting the swerve drivetrain to our existing bot chassis. We can already see a massive increase in agility over 2020. This combined with the additional time our drive team has had at the controls to practice and Polaris is looking like a winner!
The new swerve drivetrain is putting both our bot AND our drive team to the test!