The Charlotte Observer

The Charlotte Observer visited Queen City Robotics Alliance for the grand opening of the ZONE this past Saturday.  F.I.R.E. was there to demo!    Click here.

Promote Award!

Watch the winning Promote Award video 

at the NC FTC 2016 tournament - made by team FIRE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6aXfLg80s

Autonomous Robot

Watch F.I.R.E.'s Robot [Rabbit] in an autonomous round at the NC FTC State Tournament @ NC A & T!   Click here.

NC FTC State Tournament 2015-2016 

           waiting to do judges' presentation

                                                   getting to know other teams and their bots

                                                                               drive team ready?  match about to start

another round

pit crew

 alliance selection

downtime ultimate frisbee

a buddy with F.I.R.E.'s mascots

The Promote Award

The Charlotte Observer

While at Queen City Robotics Alliance's media event, F.I.R.E. demonstrated Rabbit for The Charlotte Obeserver.

CLICK HERE:  http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/article61153727.html

New Recognitions

Held at Southern Guilford High School on February 6th, our second qualifying tournament was exciting and invigorating! FIRE ranked fifth out of twenty-four teams in robot rounds and won the following awards:

1st place PTC Design Award:

Industrial design at its best. This judged award recognizes design elements of the robot that are both functional and aesthetic. All successful robots have innovative design aspects; however, the PTC Design Award is presented to teams that incorporate industrial design elements into their solution. These design elements could simplify the robot’s appearance by giving it a clean look, be decorative in nature, or otherwise express the creativity of the team. The winning design should not compromise the practical operation of the robots but complement its purpose. This award is sponsored by Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), developers of the CAD tools, Creo and Mathcad. PTC gives licenses to the FTC student teams for these software products to help them with their designs.

2nd place CONTROL Award

Mastering robot intelligence. The Control Award celebrates a team that uses sensors and software to enhance the robot’s functionality on the field. This award is given to the team that demonstrates innovative thinking in the control system to solve game challenges such as autonomous operation, enhancing mechanical systems with intelligent control, or using sensors to achieve better results on the field. The control component should work consistently on the field. The team’s Engineering Notebook must contain details about the implementation of the software, sensors, and mechanical control.