Robotics 2025 WK 1
Rockford Robotics Wk1 Recap 2025 Last Saturday, local High School Robotics Team “2039 Rockford Robotics” kicked off their season with the International release of this year’s game: REEFSCAPE. As soon as the game was released students tore into this year’s rule book where they broke down how to score. As such they quickly decided to focus this year’s robot on scoring the “Algae” first as moving the 16 inch diameter Kickballs into the “Processor” (Goal) scores 6 points per goal, and if both teams score 2 balls into the processor it provides the team with a ranking point which will help the team to place better during qualification matches. Then the students decided our secondary goal was to be able to score “Coral” (segments of PVC Pipe) on the reef Reef for 4 points each. Armed with this game plan, some of the students began working on the end effector to control the Algae by testing different sizes, shapes, and wheels on the manipulator. As for this year’s d...
