Hello! Welcome to the RoboRibbits Build Thread for 2024-2025! 
About Our Team:
We’re team 23509, the RoboRibbits, and we’re a second year student-led team. We’re composed of 12-15 year-old robot enthusiasts from Atlanta, Georgia. Our team members are all homeschooled and come from the community. Two years ago our team members aged out of FLL and decided to upgrade to FTC. We meet three times a week and have two amazing coaches to guide us through all of our programming, engineering, and outreach struggles.
Centerstage Season:
Centerstage was our rookie year. We learned a lot along the way and ended up getting the 3rd place Think Award at regionals and we were the third alliance first pick. We ended up in 8th place in the qualifiers and hope to make it to the state level competition this year. Our robot was essentially a pushbot, but it was very successful due to being a “Pixel Delivery Service” (a self-proclaimed title.) We could deliver 16-20 pixels and score them or put them next to our alliance’s robot so they didn’t have to navigate the trusses and waste time traveling. Our auto successfully worked from all four positions and scored up to 25 points each match. Our robot was tiny, lightweight, and speedy, making truss navigation a piece of cake. It also accomplished the ascent in endgame. We are very thankful for the help we received and the knowledge we gained our first year.
Our Outreach:
- We hosted a two-day metal robotics workshop where girls in 6th grade and up built REV EduBots and competed in a simplified version of an FTC game field. All of them were able to make a drivable, programmable robot that could score points and run a simple autonomous program.
- Mentored an FLL team who needed help transitioning to FTC. They’re now an FTC team in our region and made it through their first meet successfully! We’re so proud of them!
- Successfully ran three robotics merit badge workshops where participants met all requirements to get their badge.
- Hosted a Lego robotics workshop where we reached 90 people in our community
- Reached 500 girls and taught them how to program a Lego robot
- Hosted a “How to Run a Metal Robot Workshop” workshop at the Alabama Build Day
- Went to the Birmingham Girl Scouts Discovery Center and hosted a metal robotics workshop where girls built a modified version of the REV EduBot and coded teleop and an auto code. We partnered with Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama, FIRST Alabama, and two other teams.
This Year’s Goals:
- Make it to the state level competition
- Place for the Inspire Award
- Have multiple attachments that all work coherently
- To ascend to at least level two (if not level three!)
- Collect samples accurately by color from the submersible
- Reach high bucket and high bar and place samples and specimens with at least 85% accuracy
- Hang at least 10 specimens on the high bar
- Place three samples on the high bar in autonomous and have a basket-ready autonomous code as a backup (in case another team wants to use the bar)
We plan to post weekly with updates about the robot, our programming, outreach, and CAD. We also hope to make robotics easier for new teams or teams learning new things and plan to post plenty or resources, CAD files, and programming tips and pieces to make FTC easier for everyone. Thanks for sticking around, and please feel free to share any experiences or advice you have!
Team Links:
RoboRibbits Instagram
RoboRibbits Website
RoboRibbits Facebook