Grimsley High School Robotics, Greensboro, North Carolina
Grimsley High School Robotics, Greensboro, North Carolina
The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a smaller robotics competition intended for high school students. However, the FTC environment is designed for students just getting their feet wet with robotics. Unlike the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), where students manufacture most of their own parts and use more complicated and established programming languages such as C++ and LabVIEW, students participating in the FTC event use a simplified coding system (RobotC) and mostly pre-manufactured parts to build their robot. Team Prion uses their FTC team to help ease new members into the robot building process so they can get experience the "build season" before the FRC season actually begins.
This year's game is called "Bowled Over". The robots must be able to move racquet balls into small crates, strategically placed on the field. To see a complete description, click here. This year, our FTC team is putting together an outstanding robot that will be very competitive at the regional competition.
Bowled Over! is played on a 12’x12’ diamond shaped field. Two alliances – one “red” and one “blue” – composed of two teams each compete in matches consisting of a 30 second autonomous period followed by a two-minute driver controlled period.
The object of the game is to score more points than your opponent’s alliance by placing racquet balls into crates and then stacking the crates. Teams will be challenged to complete tasks during autonomous and driver controlled periods and will score special racquetballs and six pound bowling balls for additional points.
