2024 Build Season of the FIRST Robotics Competition
Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario. David & Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute and Awan Auto & Tire in Scarborough, Ontario
From January 6 to March 7, 2024, the Pink Titans designed, built, and programmed their robot for the 2024 season of the FIRST Robotics Competition, titled CRESCENDO. The team began at the season's kick-off in the ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel at the Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario. There, the team read the game rules carefully, then brainstormed strategies on how to play the game and design the robot accordingly.
Throughout January, the team constructed wooden field elements for the robot to practice scoring the "note", the ring-shaped, foam game piece. The students also applied computer-aided design (CAD), which were used in constructing wooden and plastic prototypes of shooting and ground-intake mechanisms by the computer numerical controlled (CNC) router. This was purchased for use this season to quickly produce prototypes in house.
Throughout February and March, the team programmed the robot to score autonomously by picking up notes off the floor, then scoring up high in the "speaker". The team also used the carpet, obtained from the 2023 Robots@CNE off-season event, to practice driving, picking up field elements, then scoring into the wooden field elements. As the competitions approached in March, the team moved to more available space at Awan Auto & Tire, a local auto shop. The team replaced the structures with CNC-produced metals, outsourced from the following metal fabricators: Samco Machinery, Bearco, and Sable Metal.
The team provided many students, many new to the FIRST Robotics experience, to learn, master, and apply learned skills in designing, building and programming, and data analysis in scouting. Furthermore, the experience provided opportunities for the teammates to foster skills in cooperation, time management, and empathy.
Throughout January, the team constructed wooden field elements for the robot to practice scoring the "note", the ring-shaped, foam game piece. The students also applied computer-aided design (CAD), which were used in constructing wooden and plastic prototypes of shooting and ground-intake mechanisms by the computer numerical controlled (CNC) router. This was purchased for use this season to quickly produce prototypes in house.
Throughout February and March, the team programmed the robot to score autonomously by picking up notes off the floor, then scoring up high in the "speaker". The team also used the carpet, obtained from the 2023 Robots@CNE off-season event, to practice driving, picking up field elements, then scoring into the wooden field elements. As the competitions approached in March, the team moved to more available space at Awan Auto & Tire, a local auto shop. The team replaced the structures with CNC-produced metals, outsourced from the following metal fabricators: Samco Machinery, Bearco, and Sable Metal.
The team provided many students, many new to the FIRST Robotics experience, to learn, master, and apply learned skills in designing, building and programming, and data analysis in scouting. Furthermore, the experience provided opportunities for the teammates to foster skills in cooperation, time management, and empathy.
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