2018 - FIRST Power Up

Overview

Competitions Attended

Kettering Week #1
Milford
Michigan State Championship
FIRST Championship - Detroit

Total Matches Won: 36

Team Members

Build

Antonio Aguilar - Drive Team
Zachary Forsythe - Safety Captain
Mady Green - Drive Team - Team Captain
Kyle Kramer
Amaiya Lenear
Kristof Leonard
Zachary Lynch
Sydney Minaudo
Brendan Paris

Business

Matthew VanderMeulen - Scouting Coordinator

Design

Chris Dake
Cruz Ethridge - Drive Team
Nicholas Haley
Luke Provost - Drive Team
McCayla Wallace - Team Captain

Programming

Michael Benko
Dominik Leonard
Logan Minaudo - Safety Captain
Ethan Neu
Wesley Williams - Technician
Olivia Ziemelis - Safety Captain

Mentors

Gina
Jason
Trisha
Scott
Larry
Steve
Amanda
Brandon
Julie
Sean

Click here to watch all of our recorded matches from this season!

Click on underlined sponsor names to go to their website.

Build Season

Two-Bit - CAD Render

Two-Bit, while primarily made to get cubes into a tall scale in the middle of the field, was made to have the versatility to also place cubes in the vault, which stores cubes for activating power ups, and on the shorter switches. It features a tank-style drivetrain, telescoping cube elevator, detaching hook climb mechanism, and a cube intake mechanism with adjustable aim and arm that can extend outward to make grabbing cubes easier. Our capacity to fill any role in the game necessary and our ability to quickly and reliably climb the bar took us all the way to the world championship that took place in Detroit.

In addition to building a practice bot and our competition bot Two-Bit, we also built an arcade cabinet to fit with the theme of Power Up. Other teams were able to play games and watch slideshows of photos from previous seasons on it at the competitions we attended.

This was our third year working at Kettering University's FIRST Robotics Center. This year, brand new workspaces featuring television screens or projectors (depending on the room), whiteboard walls, rolling tables, and rolling seating were constructed for the teams operating out of the FIRST Center to utilize. These spaces were used extensively by our programming team for nearly everything they did.