Tag: FTC

K-Days 2024 – Day 3

Today were the matches that counted for the competition and things went really well. We won all of our matches and ended the Qualification Round in 1st place!  

For the final matches, FTC team 10544 Cyber Eagles Silver accepted our invitation to form an alliance. Working together, we were able to get a high score for Alberta of 302 points in the finals.

Throughout the day, our team members made an effort to connect with members from other teams.  It was great getting to meet students from Helios, TWOSE teams, Pumabotics and Cyber Eagles!

FIX IT won the Inspire Award and was Captain of the Winning Alliance.  It was a great finish to the season, worthy of Captain Hook!

K-days 2024 Day 2

Today was the practice matches for the event and we finished in 2nd place. The start was rough when Captain Hook’s wrist fell off and we lost the first match. After it was fixed, we won the rest of our matches!

Everyone had fun playing matches with and against our parents and other mentor bots throughout the day.

Kdays was the perfect time for one of our newer team members to get some experience as a field coach and he had an interesting experience. 

Our judging interview today went pretty well although a noisy band started playing next door which made it a bit hard to hear. One of the judges is also named Max!

We are hoping nothing goes wrong so we can make it into the finals as a alliance captain tomorrow!!

K-Days 2024 – Day 1

FIX IT has arrived at the Alberta off-season event, K-Days held in Edmonton. This will be Captain Hook’s last competition and we’re gonna put on a show.

We are having fun exploring the event too. Today was all about setting up, chilling in the pit with dragon’s breath and even a bit of gaming. There are lots of great foods and different pits to check out!

Jasper: My favourite food was the “dragon’s breath” liquid nitrogen candy because of how cool it looked when you ate it. 


Here’s the video of us eating Dragon’s Breath!

Jason: I loved the first day at K-Days. There is so much to explore throughout the Expo, and I even got to try dragon’s breath for the first time. Can’t wait to keep exploring around and trying new things!

Kai: It was so cool to check out the indie game dev expo at the K-Days. Working on a video game myself gave me an interesting perspective on the different projects. 

Max: My favorite food I saw was the giant mozzarella stick on a stick because I think it sounds gross but it looks really good!

Ryan: I love looking around the stands! There is so much to do and look at! I loved trying the “dragon’s breath”, it was amazing!

West coast invitational

This off-season FTC competition featured 14 teams, including some robots built by FRC teams just for this event. We’re super excited to share that we made it to the finals as the finalist alliance captain! It’s been a few years since we brought home a trophy for being the finalist alliance captain, so this achievement feels extra special.

Event Highlights

  • Field Coach Experience: Our trainee field coach had a blast being field coach at their first event. It was his first time as the alliance representative, and he loved talking strategy with new people. He hopes he will get to do it again in future competitions.
  • Competing and Collaborating: Playing against teams from Washington was really fun. We especially enjoyed teaming up with Wright Angle; we worked really well together in the finals.
  • Diverse Teams: A lot of the teams were off-season demo teams made up of students who usually compete in FRC. It was cool to see how they brought their FRC experience into this season’s game.

A big thanks to the event organizers for hosting such a fantastic competition and for inviting us to join. We can’t wait for more events and to continue connecting with the awesome robotics community!

Bottle Drive

Thanks to Bottle Depot, FIX IT has charity account with them. Anyone can drop bottles off at the Bottle Depot (Glanford, Quadra or Queens locations) and let them know you’d like the refund to go to the FIX IT Robotics Team.

All the money raised will go to cover the team expenses. Even after we’re back from Worlds, bottles can continue to be dropped off to help with the ongoing costs of running the team.

If you have some bottles you’d like to give the team, contact us. We’d be happy to arrange to pick them up and do the sorting.

FIX IT is heading to FTC World Championships

It’s exciting to win the BC FTC Championships and find out your team has qualified for Worlds!

But then the planning starts. How do you all get there? Where will you stay? How do you improve your robot to make it ready for World Championships? How are we going to pay for everything?

Fortunately, our season plan started with a complete game analysis and robot strategy with improvements for each of our events. We already knew what we’d need to change to be ready for Worlds.

Our robot, Captain Hook, now has a much for effective claw and an extending are which should double our scoring in tele-op.

Our other priority is fundraising! If you’d like to support our team, please check out our GoFundMe. If you know a company who might want to sponsor the team, please contact us with the information.

Follow our journey in at World Championships on our website. We’ll be making new posts each day.

Team FIX IT – BC Championship – Inspire Award

BC Championships 2024

FIX IT was in the BC FIRST Tech Challenge Championships held in Surrey BC.   The top 24 teams from British Columbia and the Yukon were competing.   

Some of the highlights for our team were:

  • playing in the highest scoring match of the Qualifying Rounds. With Guild of Builders, we got a high score of game of 220 points including a 100 point perfect autonomous.
  • we had fun hanging out with other teams at the social on Saturday night.
  • thanks to FTC 18841 KSS One for choosing us to be on their Alliance.
  • Mecha mustangs had a really cool under glow on their robot. 

Of course, winning Inspire was our favourite moment of the day.

FIX IT will be competing at the FIRST World Championships in Houston Texas on April 17-20, 2024. Check out our Go Fund Me to help or contact us if you have a suggestion about a company who could sponsor our team.

BC Championships

On Feb. 26, 2022, 3491 FIX IT competed in the first in-person Championships in over two years! It was held at at Khalsa Secondary School in Surrey. For some of our team members, this event was their first live competition.

Overall, we came 17th place out of 28, having a total point score of 404, averaging 80.8pts per match.

Here is a link to see our matches
Qualification 7 (122pts): https://youtu.be/whrDSbxTY5I?t=8118
Qualification 10 (80pts): https://youtu.be/whrDSbxTY5I?t=9133
Qualification 18 (40pts): https://youtu.be/whrDSbxTY5I?t=11950
Qualification 24 (76pts): https://youtu.be/whrDSbxTY5I?t=13903
Qualification 34 (86pts): https://youtu.be/whrDSbxTY5I?t=16817

BC Championships – Think Award

We learned a lot from the competion, regarding our strengths and weaknesses. But more importantly, we were able to meet many teams from around BC that we haven’t met, or seen for a long time!

We won the Think award, and was the second place Inspire Award, providing us a ticket to the World Championships!

We all had a lot of fun, and we are excited to compete at the World Championships.

BC Victoria Scrimmage One

On Nov. 20, 2021, 3491 FIX IT competed in the first live FTC scrimmage in over a year and a half! It was great to get back to in-person matches playing FREIGHT-FRENZY, and meeting the teams for a very fun Scrimmage!

We had a good first scrimmage, with an average score of 75.2 pts each match, and the highest score in the scrimmage of 177 points!

Here is a link to see our matches
Qualification 2 (39pts): https://youtu.be/OrQ_Iitlqe8?t=966
Qualification 3 (17pts): https://youtu.be/OrQ_Iitlqe8?t=1775
Qualification 4 (66pts): https://youtu.be/OrQ_Iitlqe8?t=2602
Qualification 5 (177pts): https://youtu.be/OrQ_Iitlqe8?t=3122
Qualification 4 (77pts): https://youtu.be/OrQ_Iitlqe8?t=4860

We had a lot of fun at this first scrimmage and it was great to see the other teams and their robots. We are excited for the next events.

BC League 5

League 5 is the final FIRST Tech Challenge league event in British Columbia, and it was a success! All of our team members at the workshop did an amazing job during practice and during scoring matches.

Beyonce didn’t have any mechanical issues, but it was clear that we need more driver practice.

Picture of our robot, Beyonce, in March 2021

As a part of Fair Play, we recorded all of our matches, available for everyone to see on YouTube.

We are all excited for Wednesday, the Virtual Pits with League Wrap-up. We’ll see how we did compared to other teams around British Columbia.