FIRST Team 1403 Cougar Robotics Newsletter Build Season: Week 2 Following the success and productivity of Week One, the sub teams on Logistics and Robot side continue to make progress throughout Week Two. Like Week One, many hours of hard work and dedication were put in by members of the Read more…
FIRST Team 1403 Cougar Robotics Newsletter Build Season: Week 1 Once the Power Up competition theme was announced at Kickoff, Team 1403 began productively working on the robot—from coming up with robot design ideas to building mechanisms. On Sunday, the Strategy team presented the game rules in the manual to Read more…
12th Annual Kickoff On January 6th in 2018, after months of hard work during preseason, thirty-six teams gathered in Skillman, New Jersey at Montgomery High School for the 12th annual FIRST Kickoff. The students anxiously waited for the reveal of the new Robotics challenge, streamed live from New Hampshire. Read more…
Thank you to all who donated items for the food pantry! Our fellow robotics members dropped off all the goods this past week at the Trenton Soup Kitchen in time for the holidays! The results of the Holiday Food Drive are in and the Mechanical sub-team won! This earns them a bagel breakfast on our first Saturday meeting. We had Read more…
TEAM 1403 COUGAR ROBOTICS PROJECT/ACTIVITY: PCAN Advertising Date: 12/06/2017 Where: Montgomery High School Number of Students: 40 Number of Mentors: 5 Action Items: poster boards and some markers. Impact on Team: Action Items: tape measure, coffee cup-, rubber ball, Masonite, skewers, pipe cleaners, large straws, small straws, scissors, glue guns, paper, Read more…
TEAM 1403 COUGAR ROBOTICS PROJECT/ACTIVITY: Technology & Machine Design Date: 11/29/2017 Where: Montgomery High School Number of Students: 40 Number of Mentors: 5 Action Items: straws, Popsicle sticks, skewers, paper, hot glue gun Impact on Team: At the commencement of the class, mentor Michael Leicht discussed aspects and impacts of technology. Read more…
TEAM 1403 COUGAR ROBOTICS PROJECT/ACTIVITY: Building Free Standing Tower Date: 11/15/2017 Where: Montgomery High School Number of Students: 45 Number of Mentors: 5 Action Items: cups, rubber bands. paper bag, poster paper, hot glue gun, straws, Popsicle sticks Impact on Team: To begin the Cougar Class, Michael Leicht taught the Read more…
TEAM 1403 COUGAR ROBOTICS PROJECT/ACTIVITY: Engineering Design Process Date: 10/25/2017 Where: Montgomery High School Number of Students: 40 Number of Mentors: 5 Action Items: wooden board, candy pumpkin, Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, plastic utensils, hot glue guns Impact on Team: In the beginning of Cougar Class, Michael Leicht taught the Read more…
TEAM 1403 COUGAR ROBOTICS PROJECT/ACTIVITY: The Tape Measure Ramp Date: 10/11/2017 Where: Montgomery High School Number of Students: 40 Number of Mentors: 5 Action Items: Popsicle sticks, glue guns, paper Impact on Team: Mentor Michael Leicht began the first Cougar Class on October 11th, with an introduction to the Robotics Read more…
FIRST Team 1403 Cougar Robotics Newsletter Build Season: Week 6 After many weeks of hard work and anticipation, the build season has finally come to an end after week 6. Members of Team 1403 are excited for the upcoming competitions and putting final touches on the robot. At the beginning of Read more…