Skynet Students Turn their Drawings into Realities

With a pencil in one hand and a sheet of paper on top of a classroom desk, Hollace Avent and Aislyn Clark were able to turn their drawings into a reality that has been an important part of our team promotional materials.

Avent spent long hours working on this project and completed it almost entirely independently. He sat down in our robotics classroom to sketch out some ideas and a few practices later, was able to learn some graphic design from our mentors to develop a professional banner.

Clark was also developed a team avatar to match our team mascot, the Terminator. She frequently works on her tablet and pixel by pixel, created an 8-bit Terminator avatar.

How about a game of "Where's Waldo?" to see if you can find our mascot.

-Skynet Team 2550

How About Self-Driving Robots

With a dedicated programming team lead by Nathan Walker and assisted by Brayton Kerekffy, the result was just as good as self-driving cars which was our self-driving robot!

After dedicated work, hours of practice, and a whole lot of encoders, the result was priceless and flexible autonomous programs.

-Skynet Team 2550

Teams PowerUp

How do you PowerUp?

Skynet working on the project.

At our Lake Oswego competition, Skynet's business team members created and shared their PowerUp as a way to welcome teams to the event. Lacy Bott, Alaina Clar, Aislyn Clark, Hailey Brown, and Nick McKinney along with Skynet's alumni Jared Bott made over 35 "Pacman" medallions to go along with this year's theme, FIRST PowerUp which features arcade-like components.

Check out our team PowerUp!

-Skynet Team 2550

2018 Competition Season Recap

Although we did not get to proceed forth to the PNW Championships, it does feel as if we did win our own championship after the growth and learning that bloomed this season.

For mechanical, we have had a lot of graduating members prior to our season as well as incoming members. This allowed for a chance to grow and develop new skills as a team. One thing that flourished out of this was the willing and eagerness to learn new things, an abundance of perspectives and aspirations for robot designs, and the perseverance to continue improving our robot design especially from our students leading projects including Chris Ashby, Reece Elledge, and, Jeremy Sneed.

Although they may be hidden away in a quiet room to themselves, the programming team made significant strides in developing and using sensors. Nathan Walker, Skynet's programming lead, dedicated time to researching encoders, gyroscopes, ultrasonic, and was successfully able to program each of them. 

If you have been to a robotics competition before, you will understand that there is one important practice that almost everyone in the stands participates - scouting. This was the first year our team was able to develop a strong scouting system that we can reliably receive and analyze data. Lead by 

Brayton Kerekffy, the team was able to purchase new tablets, have a strong system, and thoroughly analyze data. 

A "Pacman" gift to teams. 

Thanks to our business team, we were not only able to welcome and thank teams attending our home event at Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences, but we were also able to demonstrate Gracious Professionalism, a FIRST robotics principle. Our business team created fun and memorable gifts to hand out to teams ranging from Candy Robots to Pacman medallions to implementing the "arcade" theme of this year's challenge. 

Banner designed by Hollace Avent

Lastly, our Safety team received the Safety Pit Award this competition season! So be sure to always wear your safety glasses when working in the pits and our shop so they can keep up their streak. 

-Skynet Team 2550