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As the end of the school year approaches, the Winsor Robotics club has been continuing off-season meetings. We are currently working on an outreach robot to use during joint meetings with other FTC teams and during club fairs in order to encourage people to join the team. We are also planning future outreach events and … Continue reading 2021-22 Season Recap →

On Saturday, March 5th, both the Winsor Wildbots and Winsor Wirecats participated in the 2022 FTC States Competition hosted by Natick High School! All the teams at the competition were fantastic and the experience was great for both teams.  At the competition, both teams completed a judging segment where the team members presented our robots, … Continue reading winsor robotics goes to FTC states! →

On February 12th, the Winsor Wildbots and the Winsor Wirecats attended the FTC qualifier for states at Andover High School! The Winsor Wildbots placed 18th based solely on scores during each match, and the Winsor Wirecats placed 10th. We are also excited to announce that both teams are invited to the MA state tournament on … Continue reading Andover FTC Qualifier Tournament →

Last week, the heads of the Winsor Wildbots announced that we have officially registered for a second Winsor FTC team! Due to the high influx of new student members, we have around twice as many members as the people allowed per team based on FTC regulations. Therefore, we decided that the best course of action … Continue reading announcement: two teams! →

The Winsor Wildbots are excited to kick off their fourth season with the FTC Challenge: Freight Frenzy! Our team has developed, expanded, and advanced since last year, and this year we started off with brainstorming to help us tackle the challenge. On September 18th, the Wildbots went to Natick High School to attend their FTC … Continue reading Natick high school kickoff event! →

Hi Everyone! This past week was our first two meetings of the 2021-2022 season. On the first day, we had sub-team rotations, in which we had both returning and new members cycle through sub-teams in order to learn what they would be doing. We then split into sub-teams once our members chose their sub-teams and … Continue reading Welcome to the 2021-2022 season! →

On April 24th, we had our second qualifier of the 2020-2021 season. Throughout the day, we had six matches in which we achieved 26, 29, 42, 30, 36, and 27 points consecutively which totaled to 190 points. In this qualifier we were very consistent with our performance despite the major changes that occurred. At the … Continue reading SECOND QUALIFIER RECAP →

On March 6th, we ran our match day for FTC Qualifiers. Throughout the day, we had six matches in which we achieved 5, 10, 5, 9, 28, and 40 points consecutively. While we improved drastically, we faced many challenges. For instance, after our third match, a piece of our ramp broke off. We innovatively used … Continue reading First Qualifier Recap →

The Winsor Wildbots are having our last meeting before the first qualifier of the season! We’ve been working hard and wanted to give everyone an update on how we're preparing. As a team, we are inspecting our robot, holding driver practice in the morning as well as the afternoon, testing matchplay, taking some photos of … Continue reading Preparing For Our First Qualifier! →

On January 30th, the Winsor Wildbots hosted our first scrimmage! We had 6 matches, and were able to successfully score power shots and tower goals, both during driver controlled practice and during the matches. Additionally, the autonomous mechanism was very consistent, and we were able to push the wobble goal to the farthest box almost … Continue reading OUR FIRST SCRIMMAGE →