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Recently, our A.U.T.O. team has introduced phase 2 of our mission to spread awareness throughout the worldwide STEM community. Collaborating over the summer, we have organized a training module to introduce and induct other teams into the program. The presentation reached its first destination at the Midland Robotics Center, where it was presented to teamContinue reading “What’s New with A.U.T.O.?”

After a successful weekend at the Garber car show the robotics team is looking forward to the next big thing. We want to constantly provide to our community and innovate to make ourselves and others better. At the Garber car show, the Freeland fabricators shot t-shirts out of the cannon. We got the community reallyContinue reading “The Next Chapter”

This year, Freeland robotics got the honor of participating in worlds in Houston, Texas. We had a great time even with many things malfunctioning. We all had a great time and learned many lessons. After states, we had to pack Esock in a crate and send him off to Houston. After getting there, we gotContinue reading “Freeland at Worlds”

It’s official; Team 5166 will be going to states this week at Saginaw Valley State University! To prepare ourselves, we will be scrimmaging at the annual “Brain Bowl” at the Lockwood STEM Center in Hemlock to test our shooter against 7 other teams. This will help us fix any final bugs before the state competition.Continue reading “We’re Going to States!”

Midland was a super fun event, and Spring Break was amazing for the Freeland Fabricators, but now we’re getting back to work in the Bot Cave in preparation for the State championship at SVSU. Although we didn’t win at the Midland competition, we are coming into States with renewed spirits and our chins raised high.Continue reading “Post Midland Update”

This week has been an all-around success for the 5166 Freeland Fabricators. So far this week we have made a lot of progress. We helped out with the STEM night at the Freeland Elementary School. We made a lot of improvements in the Social outreach side of things. We did this by handing out flyersContinue reading “Make it or Break it”

We know we haven’t made a blog post in a while, but we have a good reason. After our Kettering event the team is at 101%. We have been full steam ahead at the Bot Cave getting ready for Dow High. We are going to make a states worthy robot and make it to SVSU.Continue reading “Clean up and Reset”

Today our Safety team went over the safety guidelines and rules in an amazing presentation. They wanted to make sure our team was in check and up to date on how to be safe. They made sure to go over safety glasses, fire extinguishers, and what to do when you get injured. Our build teamContinue reading “Going over the rules”

Our team went to Grand Valley State University and competed for the first time this season. We were competing as the only high school team and placed second overall. We gained connections with college kids and got good practice. After the competition, we are changing parts of out robots to make sure it works theContinue reading “Trial and Error”

In the coming weeks (March 3-5) we are going to be participating in a competition at Kettering University. This competition is a practice for the upcoming 2022 robotics season. It will feature many teams around the area locally and will also feature some college teams competing against us. We had a Zoom meeting with aContinue reading “The Road to Kettering”