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What is something that you think is unique about your robot this season? What about your robot do you think would make it stand out at competition?

I believe that a unique component of our robot is our hand off and outtake. Specifically, we intake and flip our hand 180 degrees so that we can put that into a separate bucket for outtaking. This outtake is completely passive and is also run on our two climbing slides

What types of Outreach do you plan to do for this season? Which of those Outreach initiatives are you most proud of?

For us, we plan on helping out with a large variety of events, such as FTC and FLL kickoff, as well as many different demos. Currently, I am most proud of what we have helped with during FTC kickoff

Describe an element of your code which you think will be most advantageous to your performance over the season.

I believe a part of our code that will be advantageous is we have a color sensor on the bottom of our bot. This will be used to detect the alliance tape in front of the basket so that when we see our alliance color, we shoot up our outtake so we can easily score

What competitions will you be attending? Which of the ones that you listed are you looking forward to the most?

We will be attending the Penfield, Buffalo, and Utica qualifiers, and hopefully going to Utica states in March. I'm most looking forward to the Buffalo qualifier as that is at home and therefore we will hopefully be able to travel easier

How will you be organizing your team at competitions?

We plan on having the standard drive team of driver, operator, coach, and human player, and we also have plans for more people. We plan on having a scout team, lead by one of our members, and around two people managing the pit for robot repairs and pit judges

Describe a unique or noteworthy strategic device or element that you think would be useful for this game.

I believe that the choice to use a circular bot is advantageous, especially this season. Specifically, with the new pinning rules, with our bot being circular, although realistically not needed, our bot will be much harder to pin against the walls

How would you describe your design process? How many options/strategies do you compare? How do you visualize your designs before building?

Our design process this year was initially to model our bot using insulating foam, and then divide up the CAD work into subsystems and assign them on a github project page. Then everyone works together to bring the foam model into reality in CAD

How do you divide your team's time between things like design, building, programming etc. Do you enforce this timing? If so, why?

We have two main sub teams, a mechanical team and a programming team. For the mechanical, we CAD and build the bot together as a way of learning, and for programming, a member of our sister team comes in to teach programming, and they code the bot on their own