What a great and rewarding experience!
Team work side by side with some of the Woodside Bible Church members and help out a 92 year old Algonac resident with filling and placing sandbags around her house to prevent further flood damage.
Algonac Robotics T-Shirt Cannon is now a reality!
One one of off season project was to build a t-shirt / stress ball / candy launcher so we can create some excitement about the club in our community. Our original plan was to build it for the fall football game.
Deerbrook Builders and Cortis Bros are sponsoring events on Wednesday night and they ask if we could help. The goal is to create some positive energy in our community and they though a t-shirt canon would be a great way to build some excitement with the younger crowd.
As a result, we put some minds together and build our first prototype. Here some of the highlights of this project.
- We consulted with Breathing Air company located in Columbus. OH and they donated the high price regulator and safety valve required to operate this robot safely.
- Island Machine and Engineering totally kick butt on this and help design and build the barrel and holding brackets.
- Brackett Auto donated a pretty hefty hose and a few accessories/tools to ensure proper airflow.
- Kloeffler Industries welded the barrel fitting.
- Clay Township Fire Department is also helping with the compressed air bottle and refill when needed.
Great job to all involved, football game and school events are going to be a blast!
Woman’s Life & Algonac Robotics Little Library Community Project
They are finally installed and ready to be used!
These are the first Little Library installed in the city of Algonac. They are located at the Algonac boardwalk in the flower bed by the flagpole.
The Algonac Robotics would like to thanks the Woman’s Life Chapter 883 for letting us be part of this project. They purchased and donate the little Library and our students and coaches painted the wall, the inside and install a rook to protect their content. Special thank you to Cindy Babisz for coordinating with us and the city so they can be installed in this amazing location.
Kathy Tricomo, a local teacher and published author, did the finishing touches by painting the beautiful artwork. One of the library has mermaid and the other one depict a story featuring the cat in the hat and its robots making messes.
So come on Algonac, pick a book, drop a book and enjoy !!!!
1st Annual Garage Sale
It was a success!
Thanks to all team members that came and help out, we raised $1480.00 during the Yard Trail Sale. Locations was perfect and weather was just a tad too wet!!!! but it worked out just fine!
A huge thank you to everyone that donated items for the sale… your donations all together made a great impact on our team budget, we really appreciate it.
This was a lot of work, but at the end, it was a great opportunity for a lot of people to familiarize themselves with our team.
Almost all donated items were sold, remaining few were donated to the local goodwill store.
Start collecting items !!!! the more we have, the better it will be!
Mark your calendar for next year, we will most likely do this again! If we do we will be doing Friday and Saturday only, August 11-12th 2017.
1st Annual Independence Day Parade Float
What a great day for a parade!
Our team did well using Coach Pat wagon and our team members decorated the float using both our FTC and FRC robot.
We also use our candy shooter to “shoot” candy into the crowd. This was very well received by the people that attended the parade.
It was a blast and we are hoping to make this an annual event!
2016 Algonquin Elementary Engineering Fair
The Algonac Robotics was present and demo our robots to the attendees.
We had a table setup with a monitor to watch the videos of our matches at the Marysville Districts.
It was a great opportunity to share and show younger kids and parents what this team is all about.
The Algonac Robotics was present and demo our robots to the attendees.
We had a table setup with a monitor to watch the videos of our matches at the Marysville Districts.
It was a great opportunity to share and show younger kids and parents what this team is all about.
Lions Pearl Beach Presentation
Some of our team members presented to the Pearl Beach Lions Club.
Here is the posting from their Facebook page!
“The Algonac Robotics team made a top notch presentation to the club at today’s meeting. Their accomplishments as Rookie teams (FTC #9819 Algonac Roborats and FRC # 5860 Algonac Full Metal Muskrats) show that their hard work ethic, engineering, organizational, business, and programming skills will provide a bright future for these kids! We also learned about “Gracious professionalism” and how they are working with other teams in the area with the Blue alliance. We look forward to working with them! www.algonacrobotics.com“
2016 Art Van Go Fundraiser by the Woman’s Life Chapter 883 “The Algonac Gals”
This was a fundraiser to benefit the Algonac Robotics Team.
It was organized by the Woman’s Life “The Algonac Gals” Chapter 883.
Total of $1035.00 was raised!
Thank you so much!