ABSOLUTE ROBOTICS

Team 4308

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Welcome to the 2024/2025 Absolute Robotics Information Meeting!

INFORMATION MEETING

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OUR TEAM

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WHO WE ARE

THIS SEASON

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What FIRST and the FIRST Robotics Competition are about

Explore your interests with our specialized team structure

How to get involved with Absolute Robotics

Meet the Woodlands’ team: Absolute Robotics

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Our plans for our best season of robotics!

More than just robots

FIRST

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an organization that inspires students to be leaders in STEM through various robotics competitions for youths.

At the high school level, the main competition is the FIRST Robotics Competition, FRC.

WHO WE ARE

TEAM 4308:

ABSOLUTE ROBOTICS

Team 4308 is a robotics club based at the Woodlands SS. Founded in 2012, we currently have over 70 members on our team and no prior experience is required to join!

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As a competitive club, we participate in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) every year, meaning we have only 6 weeks to design and construct a industrial-sized robot.

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By joining 4308, you get the opportunity to gain real, hands-on engineering experience working with mentors, teachers, and fellow students - there are many ways to get involved.

PAST SEASONS

Provincial Competition Finalists & Qualified for World Championships

Winner @ STEMley Cup Championship

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Innovation Challenge Semi-Finalist

Finalist @ STEMley�Overtime Sunday

Sustainability Award

Winners

Finalist @ STEMley�Overtime Sunday

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2018

2021

2023

2022

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2018

Excellence in Engineering Award

2024

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Previous Bots

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NETWORK

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Team members who graduate share their FRC knowledge and offer advice to the current team

ALUMNI

Absolute Robotics is a collaborative team, and by valuing the experience of our mentors and alumni we can push the boundaries of what’s possible

Team mentors are skilled individuals with experience in relevant work fields to help guide the team and provide real-world expertise

MENTORS

SUBTEAMS

Building a robot from scratch is a lot of work, and there are many different jobs to be done to get there.

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Team members specialize in specific subteams in order to efficiently split up work, and so that everyone can learn and work in a way that suits their interests.

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It’s okay not to know which subteam you’re interested in, this presentation will help you pick!

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Engineering Subteams

Build

Controls

Competition (Strategy/IT)

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Admin Subteams

Marketing

Media

Design Subteam (Build)

Overview

• Works with Competition subteam to come up with an overall robot design
• Determines feasibility using math and physics concepts
• Implements a design using CAD software (Solidworks & Onshape) based on calculations and prototypes
• Oversees the production and sourcing of parts
• Keeps modifying the design throughout the season in response to team needs

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Skills You’ll Learn

• Solidworks and Onshape - industry leading Computer Aided Design (CAD) software
• The principles of constructing a sturdy, reliable machine
• How to work on a specialized team towards a common goal

Mechanical Subteam (Build)

Overview

• Collaborates with Design and Strategy to create a concept robot based on the rules of the game
• Develops prototypes with Strategy to assist Design, and determines specifics of different mechanisms
• Manufactures individual mechanisms once design is complete, and later assembles each component to form the robot

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What You’ll Do

• Learn about tools and how to use them, as well as the fundamentals of building a robot
• Get to collaborate with like-minded people on fun projects developing many soft skills that can be used outside of robotics

Controls Subteam (Programming)

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Overview

• Writes software for the bot that allow controllable movement
• Utilize sensors and logic to improve accuracy and ease of use
• Troubleshoot errors and ensure the robot moves predictably
• Program autonomous routines for the start of each match

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Skills You’ll Learn

• Using industry standard version control systems (Git/Github)
• Working with cool FRC frameworks and libraries
• Object-oriented programming (Java)
• Implementing robot kinematics and control systems
• Manipulating vision processing
• Collaboratively developing software as a team

Controls Subteam �(Electrical)

Overview

• Works with Design to create an electrical board with an efficient usage of space
• Wires the robot circuit and maintains all electrical and pneumatic components
• Ensures all sensors and connections are connected properly, organized, and secure

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Skills You’ll Learn

• Hands-on experience with electrical tools
• Circuitry of electrical components and sensors
• Vision cameras and processing
• Management and organization of electronics

Strategy @ Competition Subteam

Overview

• Analyze game design & propose optimal solutions
• Help design and streamline robotic components and team strategy
• Understand a variety of components in robotics
• Applies all areas of robotics to one cohesive subteam

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Interested?

• Better comprehend the inner workings of FRC strategy
• Communicate with all of robotics
• Work closely with all other sub teams (engineering, competition and drive team)
• Practice Mock Kickoffs and lead the team during Kickoff

Scouting @ Competition Subteam

Overview

• Responsible for analyzing robot/game data of all teams competing (including ourselves) and recognizing strengths and weaknesses

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• Types of Scouting
• Pre-season
• Game

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Interested?

• Learn to �analyze data
• Works closely with �drive team

Info Tech @ Competition Subteam

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• website

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• database/server

• Build tech products

• scouting app

• Supportive team

• Remote & async support

Marketing Subteam: Finance

SPONSORS

FINANCE ON TEAM 4308

WHY JOIN?

Reaching out to businesses that can help support our team

Acquiring sponsors and funding for

team resources, fees, merch, etc.

Apply your business, tech and math skills to real-world situations; Develop interpersonal and communication skills

Marketing Subteam: Outreach

Responsibilities

• Runs fundraisers and fun school events (Ex: Carnival Booth)
• Runs community outreach activities
• ex. workshops, info meets, volunteering
• Works closely with media subteam to organizes/maintains social media and coordinate events

How we help you

• Learn to network
• Develop creative brainstorming skills
• Practice public speaking & marketing
• Develop leadership, management and organizational skills

Media Subteam

Overview

• Promotes the club and its events to the student body, community, and general public
• Works closely with outreach and all parts of the team to create many different types of content
• Designs the team’s merch for the year

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Why You Should Join!

• Learn and apply your artistic, design, photography, film, and promotional skills to real-life scenarios
• Exclusive media pass at competitions gives front row seats to the competition floor
• Many creative opportunities to represent the team

Drive Team

Overview

• Collaborates with other teams to develop match strategies
• Composed of 2 drivers, 1 drive coach, and 1 human player
• Drivers: responsible for controlling the bot during matches
• Drive coach: makes live decisions for drivers by observing the current match situation and talking with allied teams
• Human player: manipulates game pieces during matches

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Interested?

• Feel the competitive pressure and responsibility of being able to single-handedly decide the outcome of a match
• Experience the thrill of a “video game” in real life
• More information regarding tryouts will be provided later

Offseason

Season Kickoff

Build Season

Competitions

Offseason

Competition Season Schedule

January 4th, 2025

September - December

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January-March

FRC in 2024-25

FIRST^® DIVE^SM presented by Qualcomm

Season Updates

The FIRST® Robotics Competition season will kick off January 4th with a brand-new game challenge and is planning for a return to in-person events this season.

FIRST® Robotics Competition teams will be challenged to reimagine the future of sustainable energy and power their ideas forward through innovative engineering, creative thinking, and teamwork in 2025 REEFSCAPE ^SM presented by The GENE HAAS FOUNDATION.

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Offseason Structure

• The offseason is normally a time for learning, and for members to gain experience

Subteams will run lessons and the team works on projects

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• As of right now, all of our lessons, meetings, and activities will be in-person Thursday and Fridays 3-6 PM every week - we will send a message out letting you all know if meetings are cancelled!

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• There will be subteams during the 2024 fall offseason
• However the first few meetings will be generalized

REGISTRATION FEE

THE COST

• This year will be broken into two-fees paid at different points of the school year - done through SchoolCashOnline
• An initial fee of $190 dollars
• Paid at the start of the school year
• A secondary fee of $110 dollars (If we have money left we will subsidize)
• Paid before competition season kickoff

REGISTRATION FEE

THE COST

While we understand that this is no small amount, there is much more to gain from the team!�

Additionally, this cost is heavily subsidized by sponsors and is less than what most other FRC teams charge:

Average

OFFSEASON REGISTRATION

PARTICIPATION

How to Join

• Register here using your school email: https://forms.gle/aWFSWhdDhPqANk856
• Must be filled out by September 18^th, 2024 at 11:59 PM - no exceptions

• Meetings will take place on Thursdays and Fridays from 3-6 PM
• The first one will take place on September 19^th, 2024
• Attendance will be taken every meeting
• If you can’t make a meeting, no worries - let a lead know beforehand!

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Any Questions?