Power Hawks Robotics
Business Captain
Duration: 2 Years
What is FIRST?
FIRST is an international youth organization that operates as a non-profit public charity corporation. It licenses qualified teams, usually affiliated with schools or other youth organizations, to participate in competitive robotics. Its expressed goal is to develop ways to inspire students in engineering and technology fields. Its philosophy can be expressed as “Coopertition and Gracious Professionalism”. Among the programs which it operates are the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). I was a team member of Team 3583 Cybirds which competed under FTC.
What is the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)?
The FIRST Tech Challenger (FTC) is a mid-level robotics competition. Teams are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format. FTC robots are approximately one-third the scale of their FRC counterparts, thus FTC teams usually consist of around 10-15 members while FRC teams usually consist of around 50-60 members. For more, watch the video below:
What is Power Hawks Robotics?
Power Hawks Robotics is an after-school co-curricular program based out of South River High School. The mission of Power Hawks Robotics is to inspire future generations through competitive robotics and introduce students to FIRST and its values.
Power Hawks Robotics consists of four separate teams (1 FRC, 3 FTC):
Power Hawks
(FRC Team 1111)
Talons
(FTC Team 3796)
Mech Hawks
(FTC Team 5187)
Cybirds
(FTC Team 3583)
Cybirds Rebranding
Background Information
Prior to the 2018-2019 season. FTC Team 3583 operated under the moniker "Power Hawks".
In an effort to mitigate potential confusion with our FRC counterpart of the same name, a decision was made to rebrand the team to be known as the "Cybirds". This involved the creation of a brand new logo and t-shirt design.
Logo Design Concepts
Final Design
T-Shirt Design Concepts
Final T-Shirt
2018-2019 Season
Background Information
Two alliances, one red and one blue, each compete to collect materials from craters and properly sort them into the cargo holed of the lander.
For a better understanding of the challenge watch the video below:
Engineering Notebook
The Robot
Binder Cover
Sample Page
Documentation
Binder Cover
Daily Log
Team Tri-Fold
Lander Meme T-Shirt
Awards
Inspire Award
Given to the team that best embodies the 'challenge' of the FIRST Tech Challenge. The Inspire Award winner is an inspiration to other teams, acting with Gracious Professionalism both on and off the playing field. This is the top award a team can be given at competition and results in an automatic qualification to the next level.
Think Award
Given to the team that best reflects the journey the team took as the experienced the engineering design process during the build season in their portfolio.
In general this award goes to the team with the best presentation to the judges as well as the best engineering and documentation notebooks.
Photography & Video
Thank You Video for Sponsors
Qualifier at Bullis High School
Close-Ups
People
Workshop
Competition
