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This season has been tough for us. Our team is made up primarily of seniors and 8th graders. What this has meant is that we have spent every meeting since September, teaching and mentoring the younger members so they were prepared for the 2024 season. This process meant building a robot. It wasn't a season bot or designed for any specific game. It was a simple frame with four drive motors that the student built completely on their own.

Fast forward to January 2024 and the new FRC season. Crescendo isn't a complicated game, but like all FIRST seasons, there are parts to it that require a great deal of thought and work that may not have seemed that way when we first started. There are significant challenges to this type of game piece.

2024 Season Bot "Riv-Et"

This year's robot design is a simple and elegant solution that was completely designed in CAD first. Using this process, we were able to teach the students how to model and test their ideas before construction.

The entire structure was designed and built around the REV Robotics ION building system and components.

We are late getting our robot complete, so our drive team hasn't had much time to practice. We are, however, very excited to get on the real competition field and show what our bot can do!