Penfield Scrimmage February 19th

The Warlocks will be attending the Penfield Scrimmage on Sunday, February 19th at Penfield High School. We plan to meet at Lockport High School at 8am and return around 6-8pm. Here is the agenda:

9AM to 11 AM - Open Practice

11AM to 11:30AM - Opening Ceremony

11:30AM to 3PM - Exhibition Matches

3PM to 8PM - Robot Testing and Field Tear Down

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Build Season Midway Update

The build season is half over, so here is the update of what has been done.

The team found out the robot was 10 pounds overweight. To solve this problem, they removed a function. With 5 five pounds to go, everything was re-wired and that saved 3/4 pound. The bumpers were on and fabricated, and the guarding was laid out. The programmers debugged the program for final touches. So what is left to be done? As of January 28th, aiming was the topic. We can't leave out that there are many broken parts that need to be fixed, which happens every year. Of course, the final job is "making it pretty, and ready for competition."

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2012 FIRST Game Released

Jan 7, 2012 - The 2012 FRC Competition has been released. Rebound Rumble is the 21st season of the FIRST robotics competition. The game animation can be seen here. The Game manual can be found here. Good Luck Teams!

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FRC Kickoff January 7th

The FIRST Kickoff on January 7th marks the beginning of the design and build season. The kickoff will be broadcast live over NASA's Television Channel from 10:30 - 12:00. Towards the end of the broadcast, Dean Kamen will reveal the 2012 game to the entire world.

The Warlocks will be watching the kickoff live in the LHS Technology wing on January 7th. It is mandatory that all team members attend this kickoff event. We will watch the NASA broadcast from 10:30 to 12:00. Afterwards we will have lunch, Receive and inspect the 2012 kit of parts, and brainstorm ideas for our 2012 robot.

The NASA broadcast will be visible to anyone having DirecTV (channel 289) or Dish network (channel 212). It is also possible that LCTV will be broadcasting the kickoff on one of their stations as well. If LCTV is not able to re-aim their NASA satellite in time for the kickoff, the Web team has set up a NASA TV feed on our website. You can view this feed here.

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Pizza Hut Fundraiser Tuesday Dec. 20

The flier for the pizza hut fundraiser can be found here! please print and hand them out to as many people as possible. We make 20% of sales on December 20th!!

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Warlocks Rock RaChaCha Ruckus

The Warlocks recently participated in the Rochester Ruckus, an annual off-season rally that uses last year's robots and game to let new team members see what a FIRST robotics is like.

This year we traveled to Webster Spry Middle School for the event. We let all the students who wanted to drive the robot drive in at least one match. We didn't perform as well, but had a good time.

We hope all the students learned a little and whetted their appetite for the real competitions coming later.

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