BEARs' Blog → Archive for March, 2009

(More) Website Updates by JD Hartley

After regionals, we the web team, like the mechanical team did with the robot, decided to take a look at what could have been done better and fix it before Champions. We have uploaded 250 some pictures into the media page, with more on the way soon. We have also added a new robot page [...]

Post regional by Carol Bauer

If you read Sam’s post, you could tell things weren’t going well during regionals, but this amazing group of individuals never ever gave up, never backed down, never hung their heads. They waded through the “sea of crisis,” which is what the robot’s name Mare Crisium means, trying to find ways to resolve the problems [...]

Facing an enemy of TIME by Sam Scharles

A First Hand View of The Happenings in the Pit These last two days at regionals have gone anything but smooth.   Murphy’s law has definitely been in full effect.  The worst enemy of all was not our robot, super glue, or the code, it was most definitely TIME. /*|*\Thursday/*|*\ This was when we knew that [...]

In Milwaukee (Part One) by JD Hartley

We are currently in Milwaukee for the FRC Wisconsin Regional. We have our pit set up with our rotating disco balls and all of our signs. Setup wasn’t as smooth as it was last year, but we are set up and getting ready to go. Drilling more holes, we are trying to lose some weight [...]

Twas the night before Regionals…. by Janna Billetdeaux

As I write this, I hope all the team members are snug in their beds with visions of regionals running through their heads…. All the work, stress, arguments and accomplishments of the build season will culminate tomorrow as the Wisconsin Regional gets under way.  Our team had a final meeting today to load up the trailer [...]

Hey everybody, I just wanted to stop by and let you all know that Team 930 will be live blogging the FRC Wisconsin Regional on March 12-14. You can keep up to date with all of the action at http://team930.org/blog/live/.

Susan Brown, a parent, made us an AWESOME flag. See pictures and a more in-depth overview here.

Mukwonago BEARs Wallpapers by JD Hartley

A few nights ago I was making an “awesome” wallpaper featuring some of the members of our team and the 2008 and 2009 robots (Ursa Major and Mare Crisium respectively). As I was about to save it, an unfortunate Photoshop-closing accident-involving occurred and I lost it all. [...]