The build season has begun once again! The Warlocks kicked o
ff 2018 with a brand new FIRST Challenge, called FIRST Power Up.
On Saturday, January 6th, 125+ community leaders, business sponsors, mentors, students, parents, and teachers along with Mrs. Bradley, our superintendent, witnessed as we started our FIRST 6 week journey. Mr. Bob Vasko, chief engineer at MAHLE, opened the morning up bright and early with a page from Robotics 101 designed by MAHLE. This Robotics 101 activity was to start turning students creative minds to understanding the four types of creators: Ideators, Clarifiers, Developers, and Implementers. After this we began our creative process. We ran matches using humans instead of robots, in order 
to fully understand the challenge. The day after kickoff we went to the YMCA to brainstorm further how we want our robot to look and what we want the robot to do.
Later in the week we began developing prototypes. We are looking forward to the next 5 weeks and what the Warlocks have next in store for them at our competitions!
Good Luck to all the teams this season and we’ll see you at the competitions!