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Emma Veenstra

Mar 18
1 min

Practice runs

As virtual competitions are in a few weeks, we have been practicing all the time.

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 25
1 min

2021 Season

This season looks a little bit different with virtual competitions instead of in-person ones. For the virtual competitions, teams have...

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Emma Veenstra

Mar 9, 2020
1 min

Winners!!!

At the St. Joseph competition this past weekend, we ranked 12 right before alliance selections and were the number 2 alliances first...

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Emma Veenstra

Mar 6, 2020
1 min

St. Joe Competition!

Today is the first day of our first competition for this year, and we would love to have you with us! If you can't make it, that's okay,...

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 28, 2020
1 min

Thankful Thursday Day 2 Pt. 3

Thank you to Plascore for the gracious donation you have provided us with this year. We greatly appreciate your partnership with us.

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 28, 2020
1 min

Thankful Thursday Day 2 Pt. 2

Thank you to Gentex for being a reoccurring sponsor for our 2020 robotics season. We greatly appreciate all that you have done for us.

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 27, 2020
1 min

Thankful Thursday Day 2

Thank you to Mike DeYoung Homes for your gracious donation to our team this year. Partnering with you will help us reach success this...

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 22, 2020
1 min

Shooter wheels from Hil-Man

Another big thank you to Hil-Man for machining the shooter wheels for us!

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 15, 2020
1 min

Thanks for the contribution

We want to say thank you to Tom Buter from S&S Automation. As they provided parts for Hil-Man to machine for our robot.

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 8, 2020
1 min

New parts

Thank you to Hil-Man for machining these parts for us, we are going to put them on the robot today!

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 7, 2020
1 min

Thankful Thursday Part 2

Jason Jordan, thank you for all the tooling you've donated to our team. We appreciate your generosity greatly!

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 6, 2020
1 min

Thankful Thursday

We want to give a Big thank you to Hil-Man Automation for giving us these awesome drill sets with drill bits included, as well as a full...

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Emma Veenstra

Feb 5, 2020
1 min

Thank you Vortec!

We would like to thank Vortec tooling for their generous donation to our team this year, we are very grateful for their reoccurring...

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Thank you to Applied Industrial Technologies

Emma Veenstra

Feb 4, 2020
1 min

Thank you to Applied Industrial Technologies

We want to thank Applied Industrial Technologies for donating our shooter wheels. They will help us greatly in launching the power cells...

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Emma Veenstra

Jan 28, 2020
1 min

Power Cell Launcher

This was our first prototype of our Power Cell Launcher. We think it works really well, we just need to get it to fire in a straight...

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Emma Veenstra

Jan 24, 2020
1 min

New Year, New Team

Since this years game was revealed on the 4th, we have been hard at work designing a prototype and starting to build the robot. Our...

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Emma Veenstra

Nov 14, 2019
1 min

Another Great Day!

We made great progress!

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Emma Veenstra

Oct 24, 2019
1 min

WMRI's Conclusion

Our expectations were exceeded as we won this competition and have thoroughly enjoyed the thrill which goes along with it! We had an...

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Emma Veenstra

Oct 17, 2019
1 min

WMRI is on its way!

WMRI is on the horizon and we've started our preparations! We have gotten around twenty hours of practice in preparation for this...

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Emma Veenstra

Oct 17, 2019
1 min

The much awaited Girl's Competition Results!

We're so proud of our girls! By the end of the matches, the girls had placed 6 out of 21, and we were asked to join the third alliance...

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