Monday Jan 13th

Today we discussed on the idea of our mechanism intake idea. We realized that if we attempted to hold 5 power cells then one would be sticking out. That would be bad for intaking since we would not have full control of 5 power cells like we wanted to. So...

For today's meeting we started to work on the chassis of the robot. We got the kit chassis and decided that we wanted to go with the long way. The chassis based would be 32 inches on the sides and the front and back would 27 inches long. We then cut the front bar so th...

Wednesday, Jan 8th
Today we continued to work in our separate groups. For spinning the control panel the group worked on using wheel for spinning the control panel. They used drills to simulate motors and attach wheels to the end. They thought about using two wheels a...

Jan 7th
Today we finalized design groups. Some students worked on spinning the control panel while the rest of the team worked on worked on in-taking and out-taking the power cell. For the power cell groups we split into 3 groups. One group worked creating a belt type...

Jan 4th
Welcome to FIRST 5125 First ever build season blog. We are going to go over what our team is doing everyday when it comes to the robot. 
Our team created a kick off guide for other frc teams and it talks about what other teams should do and what we do. 
Every y...

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...