The First Robotics competition is about teams each from schools in countries all around the world coming to compete and put their robots to the test. Robots that arrive at this competition are unique, imaginative, and...

One of the unique tools the Beaver Island robotics team uses is a C.N.C. router. We use this useful tool to precisely cut wood and aluminum pieces for the team’s robot. In the 2022-2023 Charged Up season we used aluminum cut by...

We design our robots using CAD. Computer-aided design, more commonly known as CAD, is the use of computers in the design process across a wide range of different industries. It is primarily used to create highly accurate 2D and...

We were tasked to report on various aspects of the Beaver Island Robot Team, or The Gang. Creating a robot is expensive, and keeping the people who work on it free of asbestos is also costly. A great deal of fundraising is...

As we work as a team, we actually get a lot done. Like last year, we got our robot done earlier so we had two weeks to work on the code for our robot. Sometimes we have to use Fusion 360, where we have to make some parts for our...

In the year 2023, our team reached a significant milestone by successfully integrating a swerve drive system into our robot which was a first in our team’s history. The journey was not without its share of challenges, but...

This season, like all other seasons, we will be relying heavily on coding for our robot to work. This year, we will be coding our robot to do something pertaining to the subject of music and show. We are not sure exactly what we...