Charged up is played by two alliances of three teams each, with each team controlling a robot and completing specific actions in order to score points. The game revolves around both alliances placing cones and inflatable cubes on platforms and poles in specific orientations and balancing on Charging Stations at the end of the match. The overall objective of each match is to score more points than the opposing alliance before the match ends.  

Our Robot

Name: EOS

Weight: 111 lbs.

Features: ​

• 4 wheel swerve

• Dual elevator system

• Drive-to-point auto path generation

• April Tag recognition programming

• Mechanical Hardstop

Competition History

In Infinite Recharge at Home, teams are divided into groups and compete with other teams regardless of location (e.g. a team from Australia may be placed into the same GROUP as a team from Michigan).  A group is the collection of teams that compete against each other for awards in a specific 2021 At Home Challenge. 

Our Robot

Name: Ender Rover

Size: 

Weight: 125 lbs.

Features: ​

• 8 wheel tank drive

• High and low gear

• Passover hatch mechanism 

• Level 3 climber

Competition History

Destination: Deep Space, is FIRST Robotics Competition game for the 2019 season. It involves two alliances of three teams each, with each team controlling a robot and performing specific tasks on a field to score points. The game centers around an outer space theme involving two alliances consisting of three teams each competing to place poly-carbonate hatch covers and orange rubber balls or "cargo" on rockets and cargo ships before returning to their HAB platform to climb at the end of the match. 

Our Robot

Name: Lowrider

Size: 

Weight: 125 lbs.

Features: ​

• 8 wheel tank drive

• High and low gear

• Passover hatch mechanism 

• Level 3 climber

Competition History

As in past games, two alliances of three individual teams and their robots compete on a field to score "match" point to win the game and ranking points to advance to playoff rounds. The game has a steampunk theme and teams are required to shoot balls, representing fuel, into a simulated boiler which transfers the generated steam into an airship in the middle of the field. 

Our Robot

Name: Dreamcrusher 2.0

Size: 36 in. by 40 in. by 24 in. tall

Weight: 119 lbs.

Features: ​

• 14 wheel drive

• High and low gear

• Fast floor fuel intake

• Fixed angle high goal shooter

• Active gear placement

• Fast climber using CIM motor with 25:1 gear reduction

Competition History

​Recycle Rush was the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition game. It involves picking up and stacking totes on scoring platforms, putting pool noodles ("litter") inside recycling containers, and putting the containers on top of scoring stacks of totes. There is also a coopetition aspect of the game where both alliances of teams can pool their totes and stack them on a step dividing the field to each gain twenty points. More information can be found on Wikipedia. 

Our Robot

Name: N/A

Size: N/A

Weight: 120 lbs.

Features: ​

• 6 wheel drive

• Ability to pick up 4 totes and 1 recycling container

• Detachable ramp for human player station

Competition History