Notice!!!

There will be an informal parent meeting Tuesday night during our regular team meeting. Please be there if you can, we need all parents to at least come to one of these meetings.

Getting Back Into Gear!

Tonight we had a short parent meeting to start off the night. If you couldn't make it tonight and would like the notes check your e-mail.

Other than that it was a pretty slow night... we just did a little work on our robot to fix the kinks and get it ready for any demos that we will put on and to keep it ready for Cage Match in the fall.

Jessica B.

First Meeting of our Almost off Season

The reason it is our almost off season is because we still possibly have two more competitions to go to. There will possibly be IRI (Indiana Robotics Invitational) In July or August. Then after that later in the year (usually around October) we will probably go to cage match. Then we will start our build season all over again in January!

Before then we will for sure have to do a lot of fundraising and team member recruiting as well. If you would like to be one of our sponsors for next year please let us know! Just send an e-mail with any questions to phyxtgears@gmail.com. Also, if you know any high school students from around Muncie/Delaware County who might be interested in joining a FIRST Robotics Challenge Team please let us know and I will do my best to get you the information you need. There are a lot of other things that we do besides building a robot too. We have sub teams for PR, programing, animation, media, and others as well. As we have more kids coming in we will need more adult mentors too! If you think this sounds like something you want in on, again, let us know!

Tonight was also a parent meeting, for them to see how this year went over all and what next year might look like for us. If you are a parent and would like a copy of the notes again let me know and I will send you a .pdf of the notes.

So that's it for tonight,
Jessica B.

Last Day of Regionals

Today was an interesting day for us at the FIRST Robotics Crossroads Regional. We only had three chances to play today in order to make a total of 10 qualification matches. These rounds are so that the other teams can see what you can so and so that each team can have a ranking by the end of the day. By the end of our ten matches we won five and we lost five. So that put us right around the 20th ranking spot. Basically the top eight teams get to pick two others to join them to form an alliance in the finals. Then those eight alliances of 24 teams compete in the elimination rounds of the quarter finals, semi finals and one final match to determine which alliance goes on to nationals. Sadly this year we did not get picked to play any of the elimination rounds. There were a lot of great teams out there this weekend, and we just weren't ready for it, but we gave it a good try! And we all learned something and had a good time out there as well. So now from here we get a week or so off then we will start meeting one day a week to work on random projects and hopefully do a lot of recruiting and fundraising in that time too! So until next time!

Jessica B.

There will be photos soon to come, but if you are dying to see some of them now, there are a few up on our Facebook page, Team 1720 Phyxtgears.

Day Two!!!

Now we know what we can do and what we are good at. Now the other teams do to, so it can go both ways for us. We have a pretty good chance of being picked for one of the final eight alliances, at least hopefully after today we do. Today we won four out of seven of our matches! And we even got two fun awards for our creative pit design, I guess our lasers are a big hit!

Jessica B.