CIR

 

by Sarah

 

Last Saturday we went to the Central Illinois Regional FIRST robotics competition which was held at Bradley University in Peoria.

This was the original robot.

(photo creds for these next few px to Jill H. Thanks Jill!)

 

 

However on Thursday at CIR, since the robot still needed improvements, they took it almost completely apart (as you can see in the pic below), and then they worked on it all day Thursday and part of Friday and put  it all back together.

 

And the robot is coming along! Friday morning they actually had to skip their first two qualification matches since the robot was still in pieces on the floor. They had the robot finished in time though to play the rest of their matches. 

 

And the robot is finally starting to look how it's supposed to look! This was Saturday morning when Mom took Josh to see the Pits. She even got a smile (kind of) from Ben.

 

Mom took Jewel and I to see the Pits a little later. This is where the teams would do brush-up work on the robot between matches. The large yellow Caterpillar sign with the pic of the bulldog in the bottom-left corner is team 1756 Argos from Peoria. They were ranked number 1 in the competition, and they picked 2481 Roboteers as their first pick alliance partner! Argos and Roboteers have worked together on previous occasions and won several times.

 

Coming onto the field waiting their turn to play.

 

 

The whole Roboteers team. The alliance of 1756 Argos, 2481 Roboteers, and 1781 Electric Eagles won the regional!!

(photo cred again to Jill!)

 

 

Sunday evening we went to Grandpa and Grandma Kaiser's, and as you can tell, Ben was a little exhausted from the high-paced excitement and the late nights from the past few days.