Author: bIrobot Admin

Interested in robots? Programming? Come to the bIrobot Summer Robotics Camp at Beaver Island Community School August 6th through the 10th from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day with a final competition time on the 10th at 1:30 p.m.. Design and build a robot to meet challenges in a game revealed at the start of camp. Team up with others and compete as an alliance against other teams to see who can score the most points. You’ll build and program a robot the first day of camp and then build on those skills to complete a week-long version...

We invite you to attend the 2nd Annual bIrobot Movie Festival where we feature films that feature robots.  Before the films, the bIrobot Team will take to the stage to explain what FIRST is all about, demonstrate their robots and answer questions.  This year we will also display our award winning pit facade and other materials that we used to promote Beaver Island at our events this season. Our feature films this year are Wall-e (featuring the robot Wall-e and his pals) at 3:00 p.m. and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (featuring Marvin the Paranoid Android) at 7:00. ...

We have created a video playlist on YouTube of the official First in Michigan Video recordings from our second event this year. You can view the playlist menu by clicking on the horizontal bars, top left, in the image below. To the right of the bars it shows 1/14 2018 West Michigan Qualification Match...

After our first competition of the season we are ranked 14 out of 39 at that match, where we made it to the play-offs.  We’ve addressed some bugs in our software and our sensors and are looking forward to our second event.  It’s take hard work, good driving and some luck, but we have a chance to make it to the Michigan State Championship if we do just a bit better than we did in our first event.  You can watch to see how we do...

After our first day in our first competition of the season we are ranked 20 out of 39.  We’ve addressed some bugs in our software and our sensors and are looking forward to a good second day.  You can watch us here: https://www.thebluealliance.com/gameday#chat=firstupdatesnow&layout=0&view_0=2018miwmi-0...