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It really was a great competition this year! Congrats to Springhouse and Shady Side for moving on to Nationals. Sadly this was my last year because my school has no division C team. But it's been a great run and competing with you all has been a pleasure. I hope however to see many of you at other ...

It really was a great competition this year! Congrats to Springhouse and Shady Side for moving on to Nationals. Sadly this was my last year because my school has no division C team. But it's been a great run and competing with you all has been a pleasure. I hope however to see many of you at other c...

15 hours and 40 minutes until events start!

What scores do you B-divisioners think you'll get at some of the events?

My proudest moment would have to be medaling in all of my events at regionals this year - 5x gold medals, 1x silver, and 1x bronze

SW tournament tomorrow!

Just joined this Forum, here is what my son's group built. It's a scope with sweeping doors. It's pretty effective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns9rV1AgzPU . Love the omni wheels! Did the robot use a microcontroller like an arduino/raspberry pi or something like a radio receiver? Our design is ...

Hello everyone. Just want to hop in with what I've seen so far in the event. We can clear the board for full points in 2:15 at best possible, and at our regionals we were second to a team who cleared the board for full points in a minute and a half. At nationals, you will basically need to clear th...

In the rules is states that the track will be accommodated for both left and right turning vehicles. However, it never states how far to a side the track will be. Would it be safe to assume that a track width of say 2 meters on either side of the can is reasonable?

What degree of accuracy are you getting? I'm experiencing a distance error of +/- 1 inch and a horizontal error of +/- 3 inches. I can't seem to shake the horizontal though

ScienceMaster wrote:In the rules, it says that "pre-loaded energy devices are allowed as long as they don't provide energy to propel the vehicle."
Does that mean that we can use a battery for the breaking mechanism and trigger?

The rules also say that no electronics can be used