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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?

Our robot utilizes a CHAIN coaxial virtual 4 bar that stands out among most teams as it doesn't use belts.

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

We plan to join the ignite program to help mentor teams around the world. As we planned for the season, we wanted to mentor at least 3 teams and assist at least 10.

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

At the beginning of the season we used the roadrunner action system structure, but after learning about FTClib we switched immediately. It has allowed us to use faster pathing systems like Pedro pathing, and map commands twice as fast.

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

We will be attending 2 qualifier and hope to attend the Alabama State Championship.

How will you be organizing your team at competitions?

We organize our team into 3 sections, scouting, pit, and drive. The drive team is made up of our 2 drivers, coach, and human player. The pit team is made up of 1 sub captain and 3 other students that cycle out. The pit team is led by our captain and has 1 other member that cycles with the pit team.

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

One unique strategy we use is our custom scouting system. We created a system that allows us to work with multiple teams so we can reduce the amount of members from teams that have to sit in the stands. This system is still growing and we hope to develop it to be internet independent so it could work at any competition.

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

Currently we allow all of our team mates to input different design options so that our team is open to as many different design ideas as possible. Currently we use a design matrix which consists of a table that shows through extensive math, how "worth it" a scoring option on the field is. This way we can see the drawbacks, and in the end come to a conclusion that strategically works for the team and the game, helping us succeed.

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 multiple different subteams, both optional and non optional. Every member must be either on the marketing or outreach and has the option on being a member of software, output, or intake as well. Our captain schedules out the weeks to ensure everything can get done. We give time for hardware to design and build the robot and then hand it off at a hard deadline for software to code the robot. We then take the week before competition for drive practice and judging.