The Season Sets Sail: Despite Valentines Day, mid-winter break, and people leaving on vacation, our team pushed forward. With competition coming up at the end of March, our team is putting in some serious elbow grease with the robot. Our students have spent each evening working on the robot, facing the season head on! To begin, design finished up their work on the robot. They worked on a mechanism allowing the robot to climb, and are now working on any little edits necessary.

FENTON DISTRICT EVENT! Fenton was another successful competition for us. We started off the event a little rocky, however, through help of another team, we were able to diagnose an issue with our batteries. Showing gracious professionalism, Team 68 Truck Town Thunder allowed us to temporarily borrow one of their batteries. On another hand, Team 7762 AutoPilots lent us their battery cart for the remainder of Fenton, and later for states. This helped us get picked first in the

BATTLE CREEK PERFORMANCE At the end of the competition, we made it to playoffs! Although we had early robot issues with our au-ton, we continued to work and persevere and ended with a rank of eighteen out of thirty-nine teams! With our working robot, our team was picked to participate in semi-finals as part of alliance number five. After our performance, our team is working hard to make sure that we can make playoffs again at our next competition! We are so excited to be movi