Our OCCRA season kicked off this Monday! This year, we’ll be building a robot for the game “Over and Out.” In the game, there are two roles for the robots on each alliance: “over” and “out,” separated by a fence. The “over” robot passes balls over the fence to their allied “out” robot, which then scores it in the goal at the end of the field. At the same time, the opposing alliance is passing balls and shooting in the opposite direction.

le pere du dessin avec l'ordinateur We came in Tuesday ready to strategize and developed a plan for our robot. Throughout Wednesday and Thursday, we’ve been designing, prototyping, and programming. Without giving away too much, we have high hopes for this year!

OCCRA is the Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association. 20+ high school teams build robots compete throughout the fall leading up to the County Championship. OCCRA stresses developing student leadership by limiting mentor design involvement to one hour per week.

Our 2018 competition dates are: October 20^th, October 25^th, November 3^rd, November 8^th, and November 17^th. We hope to see you there!

Written by Joseph Sullivan

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