In the 2026 season, Team 930 is thrilled to dig into past game elements during FIRST Rebuilt! On FRC kickoff day we hosted our yearly event, joining with other teams to start off the new season. We invited teams 6643 Walnuts and Bolts, 6574 Ferradermis, 2062 CORE, 8701 Graffiti, and 5148 New Berlin Blitz, who collaborated with us in brainstorming activities and possible strategies. During this event, we facilitated four workshops (a special shout-out to our Ferradermis presenters), and we presented six more. The day after Kickoff, some parents, mentors, and students built the majority of our practice field.
Our Electromechanical team focused on Kitbot, prototyping, and the design of the 2026 Competition robot over the first two weeks of competition season.
During Week One, the CAD team created Kitbot drawings and chose frame dimensions. In addition, they assisted in prototyping the intake, indexer, shooter, and climber designs alongside the rest of Electromechanical. The following week CAD finalized the Competition Robot parameters, formulated a rough robot design, and aided fabrication throughout meetings.
Fabrication and Assembly focused primarily on the Competition robot prototypes and having the rookies assemble and fabricate Kitbot for Week One. In Week Two, they furthered prototyping efforts with spindexer, turret, and planetary experimentation. Also, they cut aluminum parts with the CNC and lasered Masonite for testing.
The Electrical Subteam centered around testing and organizing various electrical components. They began the Electrical Olympics, a fun activity to help train rookies. They also held a battery lesson and had their rookies assist in the building of Kitbot. The next week electrical assisted in prototyping, participated in meetings with CAD, as well as completed CANcoder lessons.
Throughout the first week, Programming updated Kitbot licensing, planned subsystem layouts, and finished the Kitbot skeleton and swerve. In Week Two, they continued subsystems for the competition robot, outlined the indexer, and intake subsystem, and set up questNav for vision.
Business updated the sponsor tracker and logos, began the sponsor banner, drafted emails to sponsors, finished kickoff videos and workshop, prepared for Course information Night, underwent photo training, made TikToks, and adjusted the Impact brochures. After the first week, the subteam also made significant progress on the team shirts.
FIRST Impact made decisions on the video for this year with the Business team, finished the executive summaries, formulated a draft of the 2026 essay, updated documentation from kickoff, wrote this year’s presentation, reviewed writings, signed up for FIRST Advocacy Day, and wrote the Woodie Flowers essay.
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