Manistee Academic Teams

Manistee
Robotics Team

Robotics Coach:
Dan Dilworth – ddilworth@manistee.org

Robotics begins the second week of school with one meeting a week after school on Mondays working on vision and inertial navigation of a basic robot.
In January through March we meet three afternoons a week building our robot for competition.
We compete in at least two regional competitions with robotics teams from throughout the State.

This is a hands-on, you do it activity where you will work with your peers on constructing a 100 pound robot that can perform in a new game that we learn about at the beginning of January. Watch some “FRC events” videos to learn more.

Head Coach Dan Dilworth ddilworth@manistee.org

We start some robot orientation work in November with the season going from January to April.
We compete in two state-wide events and a State Championship if we qualify, and a National Event if we are that good and raise enough sponsorship money to afford it.
At a Kick-off Event in January, we find out what this year’s game is. Then we build a near 100-pound robot like that in the pictures to compete in the game, build its software, and practice operating our robot.
Students participate in design, construction, software, operation, game and team management, publicity, fund raising…anything that contributes to team success.
We hope you have fun while gaining more experience that better prepares you for the world ahead.

https://firstinmichigan.us/FRC/