I have been involved in competitive robotics for a while now, starting with FLL at a young age and continuing on to VEX. This year, our school reformed our FTC team after a 3 year hiatus. Out of our 15 members, 14 were new to the competition, but most had past robotics experience which we were able to utilize. We attended the 2023 Powerplay season kickoff and were instantly hooked. The freedom to build and the potential to use tools like machine learning excited us. We won 3 matches in our first meet and continued to improve. We eventually won our league championship and qualified for the state championship. Unfortunately, things didn’t go our way at states, but it was a valuable learning experience. We hope to come back stronger next year and achieve our goal of qualifying for worlds.
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