by Deborah Oakes | Mar 28, 2014 | Blog
Brookfield’s BEAST Robotics Team Wins Regional, Earns Spot at Nationals BROOKFIELD, March 24, 2014 — Over the weekend, sixty Robotics teams from across the nation competed for a spot in this year’s national competition. The BEAST Robotics team,...
by Deborah Oakes | Mar 18, 2014 | Blog
It’s been busy! The final two weeks of build season were a whirl of planning, long hours, teamwork, dedication, and some BEAST fun. The business team stayed at Brookfield East until just before 1 am to finish the necessary award submissions for this year. Then...
by Deborah Oakes | Jan 28, 2014 | Blog
The 2014 build season is passing so much faster than we anticipated! Every meeting we tweak, saw, hammer, cut, and measure our way through the build process. The brainstorming section of our season is over because we have narrowed down all of our prototypes and are...
by Deborah Oakes | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
This week, all the teams were hard at work building, testing and redesigning major prototypes for the robot. Drills and saws echoed around the wood shop as the field team set up both the high goal and the low goal for a practice game field, while another team tested...
by Deborah Oakes | Jan 2, 2014 | Blog
What sort of life skills can you learn by being a part of BEAST Robotics? Apparently, all the best ones, like how to build your own gaming chair for the fraction of the cost of buying one. You heard me right. It’s pretty incredible too. A BEAST alum from two...
by Deborah Oakes | Dec 23, 2013 | Blog
BEAST robotics had its last pre-season meeting last week – that means our team is all set and skills are learned to prepare our new students for the build season. The team is anxious to get started brain storming and building a robot to compete, not just...