Team 537

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Papa Murphy's Pizza Cards

Charger Robotics Booster Club is selling Papa Murphy's Pizza Peel-A-Deal coupons to raise funds for Team 537. A copy of the card is attached, along with a sample Papa Murphy's Take and Bake menu.  The card is available for $5 and 80% of the proceeds go to our team.  Cards can be used at ANY southeastern Wisconsin Papa Murphy's.   

You'll see that if you use only the first coupon on the Peel A Deal card, you'll save $6, a dollar more than the card cost!  If you like Papa Murphy's, it's...

Week 5 Recap

Going into crunch time, Team 537 members are running around getting a lot of things done preparing for the mini-regional this upcoming Saturday. For starters, Mechanical designed and finalized the bridge pusher and updated CAD models. They also complete more shooter parts, assembled the shooter mechanism and built most of the frame for the robot. Electrical was very productive this week as well....

Week 4 Recap

Yet another stressful week in the books for Team 537, all CDTs are under stress for upcoming deadlines in the following week and racing to get things done. Mechanical has been spending long hours in the metals shop working on two chassis, both drive trains(now functioning), designed and started to make bridge pusher parts. Electrical has finalized their boards and created duplicates for both bots and should be finished in time to work on the robot. Marketing cleaned up and finished essays, t...

Week 3 Recap

Coming around the bend with Week 3, again, our teams have been busy. Starting with the CDTs that work on the robots, Mechanical has been pushing out parts day after day. With newly obtained tools, Mechanical started robot construction, and continued organizing their workplace. Finalizing the design was also a finished task this week. Moving over to the computer side of things, Code was working hard on figuring out how to process the images captured on the robot’s camera. They also finished...

Week 2 Recap

Bringing back the team for our second Saturday Build Season meeting, lots of goals and accomplishments are coming from every CDT. First of all, mechanical is prototyping some different parts and components for both of the robots we are building during the 2011-2012 season. We are building a testing bot and then cleaning up the work for the second one, which will serve as our competition robot. Another thing that Mechanical completed this week would include finalizing the drive train design,...

Week 1 Recap

The FIRST FRC Kickoff event starts a very busy month and a half for Team 537 and all other FIRST teams. Our team has worked hard on pre=season projects but was definitely anxious to final hear the 2012 comparison challenge. Saturday morning rolled around, and the day began for the Team 537 at WCTC, where the worldwide broadcast from FIRST would reveal the season’s challenge for the first time.

Rebound Rumble… That’s right; the 2012 challenge is similar to a game of basketball. Not...

Kick Off 2012

The 2012 Season is finally here, the game challenge has been given, time to start planning and gearing up for the competition season.

2012 Rebound Rumble Game Animation

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