WLHS Robotics

Lab Times | Every Tuesday/Thursday, 6 - 9 PM

Lab Times | December 9-13, 6 - 9 PM

Chipotle | November 6, 4 PM

BunnyBots Competition | December 14

Lab Clean-Up/Winter Party | December 19

Unfortunately, due to a lack of camper registrations, we have had to cancel the fall edition of Changing the SySTEM. Be on the lookout for a smaller makeup event later this fall!

On November 6, Milwaukie Chipotle will have a dine-out, where we receive 25% of the proceeds. Please come support the team! It is from 4pm-8pm at 15717 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie, OR 97267. Let them know you’re here for the “West Linn Robotics Team” when you order! If you’d like to order online, the code is T2B8P8H.

We continue to participate in SOLVE events. We will be at Mary S Young on December 7th from 9 AM - 12 PM. We usually do ivy pulling, trail chipping, or debris cleanup. It is a great opportunity to get to know the team and contribute to the community. This will be our 56th time volunteering.

We are participating in the 2024 BunnyBots Competition, hosted by Team 1540 Flaming Chickens. This competition is intended for new students to walk through the process of the creation of a robot for a competition. We will then take this robot to the competition and compete with it. This helps our new students understand what's going on during the main season!

It will be hosted at Catlin Gabel School on December 14th.

On December 19th, following our hard work on BunnyBots, we are going to be having a huge lab clean-up, organizing the mess that follows our BunnyBots build season.

After that, we're going to have our Winter Party, inviting Alumni to come back and visit. We will be having a potluck and having a white elephant. More information will be about this in the next monthly newsletter!

Do you work for a company or business interested in sponsoring the team? We would love your support, financial or in-kind, in this upcoming build season! We offer viewership to thousands of spectators over competitions and are a non-profit, meaning all donations are tax-deductible.

We can't build robots without our community so your help would mean the world! Please email us at wlhsfrc@gmail.com for more information.

If you’d like to show your support to the team, you can find our GoFundMe page here!

Our team of student leads and adult mentors experienced in various fields who volunteer their time. We thank our mentors so much for guiding us through everything. This wouldn't be possible without them!

With our past success hosting our free, all girl STEM Camp, Changing the SySTEM, we’ve decided to help other teams support girls throughout the larger region. For any teams/organizations interested in hosting their own Changing the SySTEM franchise, please contact us via our email (wlhsfrc@gmail.com). All the information can be found at our CTS camp website.

The WLHS Robotics team is holding a BottleDrop Fundraiser and we’d love your support!

Our bottle and can recycling has been tremendously successful this past year. You can drop off all of your plastic bottles and aluminum cans at the engineering lab (Room 709/715) during lab hours.

Currently, we are designing a better box for storing our batteries! The new design will utilize voltmeter ammeters to effectively display our battery charge and be constructed using wood joinery. Following a thorough design review we’ve made edits and will be manufacturing it within the coming weeks.

We have some of our mechanical members working on designing a modular robot cart right now. This cart should be easily collapsible, lightweight, and sturdy. Some of the other requirements we’d like are: operating counsel placement, water bottle holding area, “Robot!” horn, and LEDs. We have scheduled a design review in the upcoming weeks and will proceed with manufacturing following that.

We also have a student working on redesigning our pneumatic rocket launcher as it broke during our last Summer of STEAM Camp. They are redesigning the house and electric controls to make it both simpler and much more durable. This is a great project for learning!

The team is currently trying to design a better powder coating booth to maximize safety and contain the excess powder during the process.

With off season competitions complete, we are hard at work on BunnyBots. We are finalizing our intake design using compliant wheels either vertically or horizontally to capture the balloons. Now that our intake is in the finalization stage, we have started prototyping our outtakes. We worked on three designs: a wheel-ramp, a belt-ramp, and using the intake to outtake. We have consolidated our designs and are working on a ramp with wheels on the top and belts on the bottom. In addition, we have begun manufacturing our drivebase. In the next few weeks we will have our designs finalized and start CAD and manufacturing.

For the beginning of the school year, the software team will be taking on new members and training them to effectively write robot code. As BunnyBots comes closer and closer, the team will write software for controlling motors and mechanical systems so that software assisted prototyping can be achieved as quickly as possible. In addition, the computer vision project has been picking up steam and will be more effective than ever for the following build season.

The MOB team, Marketing, Outreach, and Business team is currently working on preparing for the team's Drive a Robot Day event in collaboration with the West Linn Library on November 1st. Business is also focused on gathering sponsorships to help us fund our non-profit team. MOB is also starting work on Impact and Woodie Flowers! This essay will detail all of the team’s activities and efforts to spread the mission of FIRST.

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Email: wlhsfrc@gmail.com
Website: http://wlhsfrc.com/home
Location: West Linn High School, 5464 West A Street, West Linn, Oregon 97068, USA
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Twitter: @Team_7034