Welcome to the Canterbury High School FTC Robotics Site!

What is this competition about? 

Students design and build a robot to compete both with and against other teams.  We will also create an engineering notebook and have some outreach events / social media presence.  

Link to 2022-23 Engineering Notebook

When do we meet? 

Currently, we are meeting on Mondays at lunch, Wednesdays after school (3:20-6:00pm), and during Club Time on Thursdays (1:30-1:55pm).  We will add more dates/times as students are available and as the season progresses.  

FIRST FTC INDIANA and Other Event Info 2023-24 Season:

• 9/9/23 Saturday - 11:00am-2pm - FTC Kickoff Event @ Success Academy, South Bend, IN 

This is where we learn about the new game!  Not required but fun and sometimes has give-aways.

• 9/29 - Friday - Showcase event for Ft. Wayne @ Northside High School - 10am-2pm - School field trip

FRC Teams will bring their robots and demonstrate to the community how the competitions work and why robotics is important.  We demonstrated our robot, helped set up the field, and demonstrated some FRC robots.  Journal Gazette and NPR articles show our students!

• 10/21/23 Saturday - (usually 9am-4pm) Purdue FIRST Forums - Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN

This is where we can take short classes about how to build, program, present, write our engineering notebook, etc.  Not required but super fun!  We have a van and driver from Canterbury. - CANCELED BY PURDUE 10/18

12/2/23 Saturday - Scrimmage in Avon, IN (2.4 hrs away) 6:30am- 4:30pm (9am-2pm, 2.5 hr drive) Not a scored event, just a practice. We had a great time and learned a lot from the other teams and the judges.

Saturday Practice - 1/27/24 - Meet at school 9am-7pm (or until done)  

Friday Practice - 2/16/24 -  Meet at school 12:30 -7pm (or until done)  

Saturday Practice - 2/17/24  - ?

• 3 Qualifying Tournaments - 

This is our main competition season and each tournament will have its own set of awards and winners.  This is different than last year and each will be more like the league tournament.  We will go through interviews with our engineering notebook as well as having our robot compete on the field. 

February 3 (Saturday):  Northeast Dubois Jr/Sr. High School, Dubois IN  (4 hrs away)

We will attend overnight, leaving after school Friday 2/2

February 10 (Saturday):  Success Academy, South Bend  IN (2 hrs away)

February 18 (Sunday):  Greenwood Middle School, Greenwood IN (2 hrs away)

• 3/9/24 Saturday State Championship  - Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, Lafayette, IN (if we qualify, pretty much no one does their first few years) (2 hrs away)

Outreach and Volunteering:

• 8/20 6-8pm - New student Club Fair

• 9/11 6:30-8pm - Back to School Night

• 9/30 - North Side FRC Invitational - Northside needs some volunteers for their robotics tournament (which is FRC rather than our level of FTC).  Volunteers might be runners of information, help with check-in, or even help score. Let me know if you are interested. 

• 10/31 - Halloween Trick-or-Treating at school - Best Costume Contest!

• 12/9/23 Saturday - Volunteer @ FLL Tournament Purdue Ft. Wayne (in town) 7:30am-5:30pm, You don't have to be there for the whole thing, whenever you are there you can help out though.  This counts for service hours. FLL is the middle school version of our robotics program.  You will need to provide your own transportation.  More information here

• 1/17/24 Wednesday - FIRST Robotics @ IN Statehouse 9-2pm We will present robotics and its important to legislators, tour the Indiana Statehouse, and promote robotics.

• 1/23/24 Tuesday - Fundraiser for Chipotle from 4-8pm We will stand at the doors after school and hand out coupons for people to use at Chipotle.  We will also promote this on Social Media and hand out coupons to everyone at school that day.  If you can, please consider eating order at the local Chipotle between 4 and 8pm.  Online and delivery orders won't count.

• 2/1/24 Thursday - Tools and Treats - 5:30-7:30 @ Canterbury Elementary School  Robotics volunteers will assist K-4 in a maker space where they have fun building things.  Volunteer hours count!

• 3/14/24 Thursday - Young Scientist Night - 5-8pm @ Canterbury Elementary School  Robotics volunteers will assist K-4 students at robotics stations - games, a build, some research, etc.  Volunteer hours!

• A few times this year we will find a Saturday and demonstrate our robot at Science Central, the local hands-on science museum.  Times will be decided based on student availability.

• We will visit the elementary and middle schools with the robot when the competition season is finished.

• If there are other ways we can promote robotics and demonstrate our robot in the community, let me know!  These outreach opportunities help our score as well as help promote robotics.

General Information from the national FIRST website

General Information from Indiana State FIRST website, including the schedule for the year as soon as it is announced

This Year's Game rules, animated (this is 2022-23 - this year's will be announced on 9/9/23)

A real life example of an FTC match

FIRST Scholarships are listed here.  There is a lot of $ available for seniors so take a look to see if you qualify.

To Do List

1. We need a place to practice long term, with a large enough area for the entire field - next year!

2. We need a fundraiser.  Our Fundraiser is a Chipotle Give-Back on Jan 23rd 4-8pm.  Here is our budget so far.  

3. We need to find companies to sponsor us, get them approved by development, and send them letters/emails.

4. We need to teach new members how to pair the robot and controller.

5. We need to organize everything, relate that info to all members

6. We need to design a new logo.  More Canterbury-esque?  With someone from Development?

7. We need to create a Safety Form and have everyone and their parents sign it.

8. We need to teach new members some Java

9. We need to create a simple TeleOp program as well as an Autonomous mode and BACK THEM UP.  Simple so that anyone can add or change something on the fly.

10. We need to buy stuff - game elements - goggles - registration - motors - servos - parts?

11. We need to look at the gameplay and figure out how to score points - after 9/9/23

12. Start engineering portfolio - everyone write up their own profile.  

13. Look at last year's engineering profile and see what we can use again this year and what we should change.  Make an outline with what we have already.  Divide up the notebook and everyone get to writing their part.

14. Turn in any additional contest entries (video, programming, etc)