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Week 3 newsletter (2026)
While other students at our school celebrate Valentine’s Day, our team has been hard at work to get our robot finished in time for Week 0 on February 28th, in just 2 weeks.
Feb 143 min read


Week 2 newsletter 2026
Week 0 competition is now less than a month away! By February 28th, our team has a lot of boxes to check. Build super busy working on putting parts of our robot together in order to get the robot to programming with enough time left to do their wiring.
Feb 73 min read


Week 1 newsletter (2026)
Last weekend we got the rules for this year's FRC compaction Rebuilt; an archeology themed event with 7 different periods and scoring based on shooting fuel (balls) into a hub (basket). We now can get started on planning for competitions and building a robot.
Jan 173 min read


Newsletter Pre-Week 3 2026
This is a very busy week for Chicken Bot Pie! This is our team's final week to finish up the robot and prepare for MinneTrials on Sunday, December 7th. This is our final preseason competition which will greatly prepare our new members for the season starting in January.
Nov 13, 20254 min read


Newsletter Pre-Week 2 2026
Chicken Bot Pie is making great progress towards our preseason tournament- MinneTrials! New members are learning essential skills for the real competition while working towards this awesome tournament!
Nov 6, 20253 min read


Newsletter Pre-Week 1 2026
The robotics team is working hard to get ready for MinneTrials coming up soon on December 6th. Each sub-team is also working to train its new members so that they’re ready for the main season!
Oct 29, 20254 min read


Newsletter Week 2-3 (2025)
Here’s a look at what each of our subteams have been up to this week! Programming The Programming team has been working on fixing and improving code in preparation for the new robot. They split into teams, Sophomore Oliver J. details, “Because we don't have a robot to code, we’re just working on fixing any bugs and updating code from last year, and working on ChickenPlanner, creating Bezier Splines to calculate robot trajectories.” ChickenPlanner is a main point of focus for
Jan 27, 20253 min read


Newsletter week 1 (2025)
General News The 2025 FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) challenge, Reefscape, has been revealed! The game animation is seen below: Here’s a look at what each of our subteams have been up to this week! Programming Programming team has been hard at work creating ChickenPlanner , a path planning project which will be used to plan robots’ motions during the autonomous period of the match— one of the hardest parts of the match to code. The autonomous period is the first 15 seconds
Jan 13, 20253 min read
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