Cougar Robotics

Montgomery’s Fall Festival, held on Saturday, October 18, 2014, proved to be highly successful. This fun packed event ran from 11am to 1pm. Team 1403: Cougar Robotics arranged a booth that sold LED light bulbs, introduced children to the works of the robot, and clarified and quantified what the Robotics team does. Our booth popularized […]

A 3D printer is a marvelous machine used for prints necessary in the third dimension. First a plastic string, called a filament, is held in a cartridge where it is brought to the extruder. The extruder takes the filament and melts it to a certain temperature. After the filament is melted the printer draws it […]

The A/V sub team this year built a powerful new computer. The computer consists of two new 23.3” Asus LED monitors. These dual monitors are arranged side by side for easy access of files. The machine includes a powerful i5-3570K processor running at 3.40Ghz. The graphics card runs 2GB on GDDR5 memory. Sixteen gigabytes of […]

Another exciting Kickoff at Montgomery High School had taken place this Saturday. All 28 teams viewed kickoff and had received their kickoff parts. Teams got to see the playing field in person and experience presentations from many of the presenters.

While our team contributed last month to NEDA,an organization that raises awareness for eating disorders, FIRST Team 1403 spent this week taking part in a walk to “end hunger, one step at a time.” The Christian Rural Overseas Program, or CROP, has been holding walks like this since the 1960s to raise both money and […]

With Monty Madness well underway, we’d just like to take a moment and thank the teams for working their hardest, volunteers for dedicating their time, and the community for supporting us for eight whole years. Keep your eyes on the live stream!

We traveled to Richmond for the Virginia Regional…

Great shots of our team and our 2013 bot.

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