Published on: Monday, February 16, 2015 by Chop Shop Team 166 - No comments
This weekend we hosted the Week Zero event at our high school! Although the competition was cut a few hours short because of inclement snow, we still had a great time hosting the event and seeing all the robots!
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Published on: Saturday, February 07, 2015 by Chop Shop Team 166 - No comments
To make up for some of the posts we've missed due to snow, today we're having a little something extra; Sponsor Saturday! Starting with Raytheon, who has been our sponsor for 5 years now, thanks to Mr. Bouressa!
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Published on: Friday, February 06, 2015 by Chop Shop Team 166 - No comments
A finalist in two district events... Winners of the Gracious Professionalism Award, Engineering Inspiration Award, and Engineering Excellence Award... they are the blue and white tie dye team sweeping Southern New Hampshire, Mechanical Mayhem Team 1519!
Mechanical Mayhem is a team made up of primarily home schoolers, who joined together to experience FIRST in 2005. To find out more on 1519, visit their website here: http://www...
Published on: Friday, February 06, 2015 by Chop Shop Team 166 - No comments
Wow, I'm not very good at this whole making a post every day thing, am I? Oh well, we have a special treat for throwback Thursday, featuring everybody's favorite mentor! In the words of Logan, "He looks mean, and he is, but he's actually not mean sometimes, and when he is not mean, he's really helpful," it's Mark Oden, circa 2007/08!
Haha that last one is probably the face that he's gonna make when he sees this post!
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Published on: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 by Chop Shop Team 166 - No comments
Today we are featuring a very famous woman, one whose name you should all know, Sally Ride. Sally Ride was the first woman to go into space, as the operator of a robotic arm on the STS-7 space shuttle mission. She used the robotic arm to place satellites in orbit on two missions into space, one in 1983 and 1984. After Ride left NASA she became a professor at University of California and invented NASA's EarthKAM project, which allows middle school...
Published on: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 by Chop Shop Team 166 - No comments
Some of the mech guys are working on an accelerometer which will eventually be measuring how fast our robot goes. (Obviously it will be super fast.)
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