Week 2: Build Yourself

As we move into the second week of build season, we are starting to see pieces of our robot come together. Two of our veteran CADers have been hard at work designing a sheet metal drive base and custom

gearboxes. We hope to have a fabricated drive base completely assembled in two weeks. Our designers have also been hard at work, building telescoping arms, winches, intakes, and cube manipulators. Over the week, the team has finalized and tested most of our prototypes and is beginning to make decisions about our final robot design.

In terms of non-robot activities, the Media and PR team have had great successes this week! Team 341 is proud to announce our two Dean’s List Nominees, Brianna R. and Joseph T., and our Woodie Flowers’ Nominee, Coach Kara Bakowski! Our PR team has been working hard on interviewing and writing their essays and look forward to getting to know their peers in more depth. The media team have had continued success filming, editing, and making their subsystem videos.

We also had the pleasure of making an appearance at the Wissahickon High School’s end-of-semester Pep Rally, bringing out some of our own robots to create an interactive and spirited event. Team 341 had a wonderful time bringing out Miss Daisy XV, and a robot from our Sparky’s Robot World initiative.

The PR team is proud to release our first song! Please enjoy this parody of Eminem’s hit single “Lose Yourself” (it helps if you listen to the soundtrack).

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Look, if you had, one drive base, or one design

To go faster and torque harder. In one moment

Would you CAD it, or just let it slip?

Yo

Our palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There’s grease on my polo already, mom’s spaghetti

They’re worried, kind of hurried, to build the arm steady to drop cubes

But they keep on amending what they planned out, the whole bot starts to sprout

Telescoping now, their hanger is with the clouds

We’re testing out, hanging off of the rung… wow

The 6 week vow, bag up, boo-ya kachow!

Then back to the strategy. Oh, it ain’t flattery

How, do we intake, we’re woke

From last year, but we won’t settle that

Easy, aight

We won’t have it, we write these essays on PR,

To win awards, by far

At the same time the star

On media, so far

Making videos about the start, that’s when it’s

Back to the shop again, yo

All of FRC

We better go capture this moment and hope it don’t pass us

You better lose yourself in the robot, the moment

You build it, you better never let it break (break)

You only get six weeks, do not miss your chance to grow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (yo)

You better lose yourself in the robot, the moment

You build it, you better never let it break (break)

You only get six weeks, do not miss your chance to grow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (yo)

(You better)