Oh how fast the season has gone by. We’re back to work! While it may be the frightening season of October, we all know your true fear comes in January. This is what you can do during this fall season to make sure you have a head start in the game and avoid the potentia...

Recently, FIRST 5125 Hawks on the Horizon helped pass resolution R2017-915 with the Citizens Climate Lobby. This effort has been ongoing since January of this year. This resolution is in the hope that it can limit the amount of carbon dioxide being released into Earth....

Over the past weekend, we had the opportunity to compete at the Midwest Regional! During Midwest Regional, we were able to do a number of things, some even new to our team. For example, this year, our scouting was top notch. Understanding how each team played, and what...

On March 7th thru the 9th we competed at the Midwest Regional. We didn’t do so hot on the robot matches but we did end up winning an award called Engineering Inspiration. It was cool winning the award but my highlight was that rookie teams we mentor did a good job and...

This past weekend we hosted a FIRST LEGO League Jr Expo at our school. There were a total of 12 teams that attended this event. I  mentored one of these teams. At the end all the kids were having fun and everyone got a medal. It was also cool that members of our team w...

It’s time for the annual Midwest Regional! FIRST 5125 Hawks On The Horizon has worked diligently to pack up any necessary materials that our team needs for competition. We packed up the pit to set up at the competition for robot maintenance and to show off our team’s s...

I am proud of my team for getting the robot done in time for the Midwest Regional competition! We don’t have to make any drastic changes to the robot during the Midwest Regional and hopefully, we can be able to utilize the practice matches to improve our skill with dri...

    All my childhood friends from around the block and the members of the community that are heavily active are in one spot: The Midnight Circus. We helped set up the mobile circus tents and the empty space in front of us quickly turned into a mini carnival covered in...

This Saturday, January 6th, our team attended kickoff, an event that reveals the new FIRST FRC season of the year, the game field, and the challenge. Deep Space, the challenge this year, involves earning points by placing these disc like panels onto a rocket (hatch pan...

       I used to do FTC, before I joined FRC. I have competed in plenty of FIRST events and have felt that other events were substantial downgrades when compared to FRC. When I would see people running through the competition wearing a “volunteer” shirt. I never unders...