What We Are Up To

Pre-Season Update 11/9/2024 - By Claire P '26

Bearbotics has been super busy lately! Our team has been meeting to plan for the upcoming season. We have a good checklist we've been working on to make some progress. Some of the items on this list include organizing our spaces, building new swerve drives, and making plans to collaborate with other teams. We also had our open house at Ursuline! Our team had a booth and loved to see many people stopping by. We had a slideshow going and we had some giveaways for potential bears. 6391 has also been hard at work in securing fundraising for our team. Stay tuned for more about our pre-season adventures! 

Gateway Robotics Competition 2024- By Claire P '26

This weekend 6391 participated in the annual Gateway Robotics Competition at Oakville High School. With weeks of preparation, the team was very excited to get back into the action and play with Presto some more. The team has recently had many changes such as the retirement of two dedicated drive team members and then a new wave of students joining. With new roles nailed out, Bearbotics was ready to face what was next. We met several times before the competition to work on tuning Presto's new arms and drive practice for our two new drive teams. On Friday, the ladies helped load up some cars and headed over to Oakville. Setting up was smooth and quick. Next, we headed into Gym A where the competition would be held, and got ourselves familiar with the sizing of a full field and fueled our excitement for the next morning. Once the morning hit, 6391 was hyped up and started our warm-ups and qualification matches. While the team lost the first match, we went on to have a 2-2 record on qualifications. Our ranking points gained us the position to be Alliance Captain #7. Our scouting team was hard at work choosing who we would select. In the meantime, we were selected by Alliance 2, Oakville Dynamics. We accepted and helped decide on our other partner, UCity Robolions. The three teams were ready to compete after a quick lunch with some fixes to the robots. Playoff time came around and our alliance beat our first opponent. We lost to our second, who won the whole tournament, moving us down to the loser bracket. Bearbotics was not done yet, however, as we went on to win another match. Unfortunately, we were eliminated after this match, but we had so much fun. The team went on to become very close with other teams around us, and we look forward to seeing everyone at regionals this next season!