The gators started their final day in St.Louis by being picked 5th overall. The captains of the 5th alliance, Team 217 the Thunder Chickens, picked 5172 as well as well as Team 2834 The Bionic Black Hawks and The 1629 Garrett Coalition. The Gators unfortunately lost in the quarterfinals to the 4th seed alliance. After […]

Today was a pretty successful day for team 5172. After today we were ranked 18th and had top teams come to our pit to check out our robot. My job is the human player at the feeder station in which I feed gears through a chute into our robots gear intake. Overall our robot performed […]

Today we started qualification matches.  The majority of the team spent the day in the stand match scouting or in the pits scouting.  Some of us were fortunate enough to meet Dean Kamen! We ended the day with the opening ceremonies that featured many talented performers.  One of them was Kenichi Ebina, the 2013 winner […]

It was an early morning for the team as we got right on the road heading to St. Louis.  First stop when we got to St. Louis was the Edward Jones Stadium to unload our pit. Next the team was hauled to the St. Louis Arch.  Unfortunately the weather wasn’t in our favor as we […]

The team boarded the bus and took off from Greenbush at 7:40 this morning.  Then we headed to Middle River to pick up a few more team members. The Middle School students along with the kindergarten and third grade classes were there to wish us luck! We stopped in Staples for a break and a chance […]