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Build Season

2/20/2018

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These past five weeks have been a whirlwind of prototypes, powerpoints, CAD drawings, and perpetual progress. It seems like just yesterday we were finding out what the game was, and waiting eagerly for the reveal of this year’s water game. Now, at the end of the beginning of an incredible journey, we stand awaiting the trials and tribulations of the impending competitions.

Overall, build season has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs. "In the beginning, everyone is really excited, and there is lots of stuff to do, and at the end there are a lot fewer things to do, there is a lot of a tweaking and programming. But, that's when we are getting ready for competition and are really excited," says 12th grader Michaela. Build season is a six week period where the team prototypes and tests multiple designs in order to form a more perfect robot.

Throughout this period we watched students step up, from rookies to seniors. We saw what started as dreams on paper became a physical, working robot. No matter how many years you’ve been a part of FIRST, it’s always astounding how the team bonds and friendships develop as our robot slowly becomes an engineering masterpiece Throughout build season we’ve made countless memories. Many being preserved forever on the famous ‘Quote Board’ that sits proudly on our shop wall. From teamwide games of Superfight and Mafia to sitting down for TechFire family meals together, we are creating moments we will never forget. As we enter into the competition, we can’t wait to make more with our friends and family.

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TechFire 225 screams “WHAT THE TECH?!”

2/13/2018

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TechFire 225 is a team whose goals and priorities reach beyond that Monster PowerCube Placing Machine called a robot. We here at TechFire believe marketing and public relations (MPR) is a vital key to our success and are incredibly ecstatic to introduce our new media segment called “What the Tech?!”

After a rigorous first three weeks of build season, students from TechFire were challenged to brainstorm ideas on how to put the good ole’ TechFire spark out on social media. Meetings spent sifting through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to gain knowledge about the pros and cons of each medium have certainly paid off. Students decided that a weekly media post seemed to be the happy middle ground for consistency without overpowering our followers with posts. Every Tuesday, our followers can be sure to look out for our weekly TechFire Tuesday post which will include our “What the Tech?!” segment for the week.

Inspired by the National Geographic World magazine feature called “What in the World,” TechFire’s students came up with the brilliant idea of having our followers play a little game each week. The game “What the Tech?!” will feature a magnified picture of a robotics themed object. These objects range from robot parts, outreach presentation items, and even the occasional game piece. Followers will then have the chance to guess in the comments what the object is and we will reveal the answer on the following week along with the next challenge.

Thank you to our amazing follower base for playing along with this exciting game that is not only fun to play but even more fun to create. Be sure to checkout TechFire on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and we will see you on TechFire Tuesdays.  As always, stay forever fiery.

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