Nemesis Energized for a New Season

After much excitement and anticipation, FIRST kickoff weekend arrived on January 7th, with 2023’s newest challenge: Charged Up. Live from FIRST headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, this new challenge engaged and motivated the minds of Nemesis 2590. This year's challenge revolves around creating tech innovation to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. After the challenge was finally announced, the team was launched into a state of excitement. The 2023 build season has officially begun!

After the team read through the game manual to gain full knowledge of the challenge, we split up into several brainstorming groups, all to examine the game and discuss how we could approach this feat.

During these breakout sessions, members used statistical analysis, ranking the actions that the robots could exhibit, in an effort to help with the design of the robot. Eventually, team members and mentors came to a consensus on each Robot action. Next up, each group would decide the rankings and strategy of these actions. An overall consensus was eventually reached and Day 1 finished with the team splitting up into small groups to review potential designs of the robot actions, with a focus on maximizing game piece placement efficiency.

On Day 2, after the ranking of tasks and strategies were decided, the “How’s” of  Nemesis’ approach were discussed. Team 2590 split up into their respective subteams, and eventually came to an agreement about how designs were to be implemented on the overall procedure. This rigorous challenge would require each and every member of the team to step up, and embrace the spirit of building a brand new robot for this year's challenge. 

Kickoff weekend for Nemesis 2590 had the team rally around a difficult challenge, through perseverance and resilience, the team was able to overcome the obstacles together. The team not only worked hard, but enjoyed every moment of solving problems collaboratively, from the rigorous discussions of strategy, to the designing of the robot, to how the team could utilize different mechanics for the robot. Creativity, teamwork and determination abounded this kickoff weekend, and we can think of no better way to start another exhilarating season with FIRST Robotics Competition.