Beal City Robotics Team gear up for competition – The Morning Sun

The Beal City First Robotics Competition Robotics Team are heading to a competition at H.H. Dow High School in Midland this weekend.

Were hoping to be able to make it to playoff rounds at the competition, Beal City Middle School and High School robotics coach Kathleen Rau said. We compete again April 8-10, 2022.

The high school First Robotics Competition (FRC) team was started in 2016 and the middle school First Tech Challenge (FTC) team was started in 2018. There are around 15 kids on the FRC team and 12 on the FTC team.

Beal City has Pre K through high school robotics and each team has a season where they design a robot to compete, Rau said.

For competitions, FIRST engineers will design the game which is later released at a kick-off event. The teams will design a robot to play the game in a match play competition.

The Beal City Robotics Team. Photo provided by Middle School and High School coach Kathleen Rau.

The Beal City Robotics Team prepares for competition. Photo provided by Middle School and High School coach Kathleen Rau.

The Beal City Robotics Team prepares for competition. Photo provided by Middle School and High School coach Kathleen Rau.

The team has three sub-teams that consists of the build team, the programming team and the marketing team.

The build team fabricated most of the robot parts this year, thanks to grant funds we received to buy equipment to build the robot, Rau said. The build team is guided by their building mentors Nathan Finnerty, Nick Finnerty, Kenny Myer, and Stacey Fox. The programming team programs the robot in Java under the guidance of their mentor Bill Scott. The marketing team designs or branding logos and have done several things such as bulletin boards, webpage building, 3D printing of awards for competition mostly with me.

Recruiting events for both teams are generally held in the spring.

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