Tag: Team Updates

  • FIRST Advocacy – A Vision Becomes A Reality

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    Rama Bala

    We’re incredibly excited to see our advocacy turn into new opportunities for students across Western PA! TeraBridges students wrote and submitted the winning proposal through PA FIRST to establish a $90,000 funding for Greater Pittsburgh FIRST Robotics Grant Initiative, funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, while advocating for greater access to FIRST Robotics across…

  • Robotics Team Wins Global Innovation Challenge Grand Prize

    Robotics Team Wins Global Innovation Challenge Grand Prize

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    ftc18603

    A team of four Upper St. Clair High School students has been named a Grand Prize winner in the Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) Global Innovation Challenge. TOM is a nonprofit organization that connects innovators with people living with disabilities to develop technologies that promote greater independence and improve quality of life. The winning team includes…

  • Western Edge Premier Event Champions

    Western Edge Premier Event Champions

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    ftc18603

    Upper St. Clair High School’s robotics team, Terabridges 18603, made school history at the 2026 FIRST Tech Challenge Western Edge Premier Event by earning its first-ever championship victory. In addition to winning the Championship, Terabridges was also honored with the 1st Place Connect Award in our division, recognizing the team’s efforts to expand access to…

  • Progress Report for 10/8/23

    Progress Report for 10/8/23

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    ftc18603

    Today, on 10/8/23, we started to come up with a plan of attack. We did so by evaluating methods of gaining points by weighing the number of points we get through each action. For example, making a mosaic got our team 10 points, whereas putting a pixel on the backdrop during the driver control period…

  • Progress Report for 10/7/23

    Progress Report for 10/7/23

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    ftc18603

    10/7/23 – Today, the software side continued on improving our detection for the April Tags, the pixel detection, and field-centric movement. It seems as if the pixels are readily able to detect the different color pixels with an astounding accuracy(0.95 was the numerical value given), but the bounding box around the pixel was a different…

  • Progress of Terabridges Team 9/16 and 9/17

    Progress of Terabridges Team 9/16 and 9/17

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    ftc18603

    9/16/23 – Today we disassembled last year’s robot and tried to replace it with a gobuilda motor for increased efficacy this year. The problem was that our team did not acquire the gear needed to attach the gobuilda motor, so we finished the software robot later. began assembling our software robot. We also brainstormed out…