Meet Surge

At midnight, yesterday February 18th, the team bagged, tagged and named out 2014 Aerial Assist robot. We put what the name should be to a vote and Surge won!

Surge

Team leads

Senior Logistic Manager, Olivia Suitor, and Senior Project Manager, Isaac Khan with our bagged and tagged bot.

The team members who stayed until midnight to bag and tag Surge. 

Some of our mentors stayed until midnight too.

Our coaches

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STOP Build Day

It's Tuesday, February 18th. The halls of eSTEM are filled with the steady humming of our robot launching, catching, and getting practice in before the dreaded BAG comes at midnight to store our precious robot away until competition...

BUT it's not just the robot who is going to be here until Midnight!

So many dedicated team members on every team ranging from mechanical to marketing are here in support of our robot!

As you can see Technical Difficulties is begrudgingly awaiting STOP Build. Although we have the utmost faith in our robot, it's still painful to say goodbye for 2 WEEKS!

Alas, the time is approaching, and we can only believe that we did everything we can!

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Chipotle Fundraiser

Join us at Chipotle!

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Harmon Middle School Visit

On Wednesday, February 12th, several of our team members visited Harmon Middle school in Pickerington, Ohio. Our team members gave an educational presentation informing the kids about STEM career paths. Our goal was to get kids interested in technology and engineering fields, and possibly joining the robotics team when they are in high school. We demonstrated our 2013 and 2014 robots for the children and taught teachers how to drive the robots.

 

Our Junior Project Manager, Mekedia Setegne, informing kids about possible STEM career paths.

Our 2013 robot, Sketchy, and our in progress 2014 robot.

Kids excited to see the robots.

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Fundraise with us!

Join us today at Panda Express on Broad St. in Reynoldsburg to fundraise for our team. Just show the cashier this flyer and a portion of the proceeds will go towards our team. Please share this with all your friends and family. Thanks for your support!

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What Our Robotics Team is Working on!

Mechanical - Upgrading the harvester and rotating the wheels

Electrical - Wiring and powering the robot

Programming - Running operating code to robot, working out the kinks for the mecanum drive, and vision tracking

Safety - Researching the manual

Community - Making a basic video and a rough draft for the chairmans award

Fabrication - Making a model of the bumpers and cart on solidworks

Tactical - Creating a quiz for driver trials 

Special Projects - Fixed weight distribution and are leaning towards mecanum wheels instead of omni wheels

Marketing - Updating social media, planning the pit's design, planning a visit to Pickerington Middle School, and finishing the t-shirts

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Robotics Night at Culvers!

Come Support us at Culvers!

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NBC4 visits Technical Difficulties!

Yesterday, the Local News visited us at Summit Campus

This was our oppurtuinity to show the community of Central Ohio, what Technical Difficulties is all about! We have so much to show to everybody, we couldn't wait...

They interveiwed various leads and the coaches.

Mr. Coley- Our Coach

Tommy Coley-  Our Special Project Lead

"Why are you here?"

"What do you guys do here?"

"What do you represent?"

Mekedia Setegne- Our Junior Logistics Manager

Look for us on Air or  Online !!   

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