Our 2018 Mentors

  William Boller Candace Fuchs Chris Cooper Daniel Bagdorf   Evangelos Tziampazis Lisa Reneson Paul Rogers Rob Berry Russell Dushin Tom Doggart Liz Frankel

Scouts doing their stuff

Avery, Rose, Matt, Mr Dushin and Cole doing what they do!

BS9, 01/15/2017

Our first full Saturday in the shop and prototyping is well under way. Most sub-function teams built prototypes and laid them out within the robot frame…

BS8 – Friday Sleep Day 01/13/2017

Friday and the shops were shut!

BS6, 01/12/2017 – Sam Frankel needed

  Thursday - ask Sam Frankel for photographs and info

BS5, 01/11/2017

Welcome to hump day in the shop!

BS4, 01/10/2017 – Tuesday

BS3, 01/09/2017 – Monday

BS2, 01/08/2017

Mother Nature reminded us that she is in charge ... but we were only delayed by an hour before we got straight into our strategy meeting.…

Build Season Day 1

Mother Nature reminded us that she is in charge ... but we were only delayed by an hour before we got straight into our strategy meeting.…

Ready to play QF 3-2!

Surprise visitors to the Tick Pit before lunch

Getting started again

Will they go for the high goal? Holding my breath!

@ FIRST championships

Scenes from St. Louis

Best Match for the Ticks so far

128 points .... Moving up

Ready for our Next Outing in Hartford

Wishing good luck at the Midwest Regional to Tick Alum Tim Wilczynski mentoring Team 111 - WildStang!

Out After a hard lost battle against worthy opponents

First match set up

O Red alliance won Qualification Match #2 -- 67 - 15  

Getting Closer

Hard at work

Intake and Acquisition

Robot is starting to take shape…

 The system works - our students are making parts with guidance and oversight of mentors!

Manufacturing Parts with the Plasma Cutter

The Plasma Cutter in Action - Manufacturing Parts for our 2016 Robot    

Discussing the Basic Design Using “Chunky CAD”

Stronghold Strategy Mats for Scouting

http://236technoticks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016_FRC_Strategy_Mat.pdf Thanks to Team 701!

Stronghold Game Manual Link

Download all Game Manuals HERE

March 18, 2015 – Making Modifications and Scouting For Our Next Competition

In Between Competitions – March 11th

With a few weeks between District competitions, the team spent a Wednesday night reviewing and contemplating modifications to their strategies, their driving and the robot itself.…

Happy Valentine’s Day – Beating the the Next Blizzard

Refining the various components to improve  our competitiveness... Getting down to the wire with a blizzard warning on the radar!

Day 41 – More Modifications

Day 40 – Productive Testing

Making the most of a slow night in the shop

Day 39 – Driving, Testing, Modifying

Following yet another snow day... many students were out due to rehearsal for the Band Concert.  But some good testing took place and led to discussions…

Day 37 – Testing, Refining, Updating

Day 36 – Testing the Design and Production

This was a day to continue adding components and to test and refine the design. All the teams are coming together and fitting their components into…

Prototyping Protective Cones – February 7, 2015

To provide protection for the intake motors at the ends of the intake mechanism, protective cones have been designed. The ultimate goal is to produce them using the…

Refining the Design

Jared’s PID Control Lesson

Jared gives Gabrielle, Shannon, Nate and Alexis a lesson in PID.

TBT – The Elf on the Shelf

So getting our team into one place to get a full team photo is practically impossible. In this photo the whole of the front row have…

February 4, 2014

Tonight's work included locating and wiring the limit switch.  Strengthening the elevator structure, finishing the flappers and designing the protective cone for intake motor

Day 32 – Hard at Work

Day 30 – Elevator Operational!

After a delicious pancake breakfast hosted by the local Lions Club, the Ticks got to work. By the end of the day the elevator was operational…

Pancake Breakfast Hosted by Lyme-Old Lions Club

One Month Down … Starting to look like a working ‘bot

Chassis Team checking master links and monitoring testing for issues as components come online Elevator Team working on the carriage Fork Team milling flaps Intake Team…

Day 28 – Starting to Get it Together

A productive Friday evening in the shops...

Close up of the drive train

Click for a close up of our drive train showing the wheels. Our drive consists of three wheels two in the front and one omni in…

Day 27 – Post Storm Action

We missed 4 days this week due to weather-related school closures. A sense of urgency and purpose prevailed all evening. Parts being made, supplies ordered, designs…

Day 23 – Before the Storm…

All teams busy and productive on a Sunday afternoon

Day 20 – Busy Thursday

Day 14 – Saturday Playday

The Elevator Team worked on fabricating aluminium parts and welding. The Wiring Team harvested and tested PWM cables and testing out the PMW motor and control…

Day 11 – Skeleton Crew…

With Mid-terms pending, many students spent the work window studying instead of working in the shop. But those of us here made the most of our…

Day 10 – Testing Ideas

Day 9 – Divide to Conquer

Dividing the team into small groups has us moving ahead this weekend with refining the various elements to meet our overall desired strategic goals.  We have observed interactions…

One Week Down!

2005 Robot Showcase

The game for the 2005 season is played on a 27' wide by 52' long playing field with the 9 goals configured in 3 x 3…

2004 Robot Showcase

The game for the 2004 season requires robots to collect and pass 13” balls to the human player to then shoot them into fixed and moveable…

2003 Robot Showcase

The game for the 2003 season required robots to collect and stack plastic storage containers on their side of the playing field. The location of the…

2002 Robot Showcase

Each 2 minute match began with the 24’ x 48’ field broken up into 5 zones and set up as follows. Four robots start on the…

2001 Robot – “Duncan Hines” (for it, dunking the ball was a “piece of cake”)

Four teams worked together as one alliance to try to achieve as high a score as possible in each match. Points were scored by placing balls…

2000 – “Gracie”

Four teams, paired in two alliances, competed in each match. An alliance scored points by placing balls in their goal, and by positioning their robots in…

1999 – “The Tick”

Points were scored by positioning “floppies,” robots, and the “puck” on the playing field. Floppies were light weight, pillow-like objects with Velcro-loop material located in the…

Team of 2005

Student members of 2005 team (38): Tom Abraham, Daniel Bagdorf, William Bagdorf, Anne Fairfield-Sonn, Barton Linderman, Cecily Faenza, Chris Lehrman, Christina Norman-Gohn, Clare Conniff, Dana Meinke,…

2014 Robot – A little SSP

A little Shameless Self Promotion

2014 Motorolla Quality Award

Congratulations to Team 236 for winning the Motorola Quality Award for Robostness in Concept and Design. The judges cited in particular the Swan Arm and Pick-Up Mechanism.…

Day 6 – Reviewing Our Ideas

Our 2015 Mentors

Team of 2014

Students, Teachers and Mentors, they’ll all be here soon (when we catch up with them) … the Technoticks Team 236 of 2014. We know that not…

2014 – Our Fabulous Mentors

CT Qualifier – Groton

CT Qualifier – Hartford 2014

It was a great day at Hartford and Team 236 won the Motorolla Quality Award ... Go Ticks!

2015 Official Game Manual & Updates

2015 Game On!

Thanks to Dominion for hosting our launch once again.  It's now Game On! for  our 6-week build season before competing for the first time in Recycle…

Day 4 – Refining Our Ideas

Day 4 – Building Field Elements

Day 4 – Controlling an Old Robot

Day 3 Sorting Through the New Control System

Day 3 Refining the Ideas

Team of 2015 – Work In Progress!

Our 2015 Team is Work in Progress.  We are busy trying to get them to sit still enough to get a photo. If your photo isn't…

Day 2 Brainstorming

Chairman’s Award

Each team that is honored with the Chairman's Award at the First Championship joins the First Hall of Fame Team 236 won this award in 2009…