Build Season Week #4

Build Season Week #4

FIRST Team 1403 Cougar Robotics Newsletter Build Season: Week #4   Team 1403 has worked vigorously throughout the course of the Build Season. Week Four was no different, with the mentors stressing to the students the importance of making progress with the limited time remaining. Progress was delayed due to some testing difficulties, however, the […]

Build Season Week #3

Build Season Week #3

FIRST Team 1403 Cougar Robotics Newsletter Build Season: Week 3 Build season is halfway done after the conclusion of Week 3. Over the course of  this week, Team 1403 has made great progress on all aspects of the robot and logistics areas of the team. Members are excitedly awaiting the competitions and look forward to […]

Build Season Week #2

Build Season Week #2

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 team. As mentor Mr. Bernardis […]

Build Season Week #1

Build Season Week #1

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 the members of Team 1403. […]

Kickoff

Kickoff

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.   Prior to the official broadcast […]

2017 Holiday Food Drive

2017 Holiday Food Drive

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 a total of 302 items donated to […]

2017 Cougar Class #5 – PCAN Advertising

2017 Cougar Class #5 – PCAN Advertising

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, pencils, tape This Cougar Class, […]

2017 Cougar Class #4 -Technology & Machine Design

2017 Cougar Class #4 -Technology & Machine Design

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. He talked about how technology […]

2017 Cougar Class #2 – Engineering Design Process

2017 Cougar Class #2 – Engineering Design Process

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 team members about the Engineering […]