FIRST Pittsburgh Regional

The Girls of Steel and Watson are geared and ready to go for the FIRST Pittsburgh Regional that starts this Thursday, March 8th. Playing Rebound Rumble, we can't wait to compete, meet, and help out all the other awesome FIRST teams attending. This year their is an astounding 11 rookie teams competing and two of them are mentored by the Girls of Steel. We are also happy to say that the other rookie team we mentor from Texas, Team #3999, has just won the Rookie All Star award at the Alamo Regional.

We can't wait to see our hard work pay off and all the other amazing robots other teams have created

Good luck to everyone and we hope to see you there!

Thank you to all teams and friends who attended the Girls of Steel (FIRST Team 3504)Week Zero Competition at the Ellis Armory Robotics Practice Field. It was terrific to see the Sewickley Academy Panthers (FIRST Team 2428), Gateway Quasics Robotics (FIRST Team 2656), 4H Incognito Robotics (FIRST Team 3962), Franklin Regional FRobotics (FIRST Team 4150), and the Central Vikings (FIRST Team 2641). We would like to offer a special thank you to FRobotics for the sound system today.

The Ellis Armory Robotics Practice Field

Putnam St. (just off of Penn Ave.)
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

will be OPEN this week on Thursday February 16th from 6 pm - 9pm. 
Hope to see you there.

Just a reminder: The Girls of Steel will be hosting a Pittsburgh area Week Zero practice competition event this Saturday, from 11:00am to 3:00pm. This mini-competition will be officiated by Pittsburgh Regional referees and we'll have awesome music! Collaboration between teams to finish our robots is highly encouraged and this is a fantastic opportunity for your drive team to get crucial practice in competition-like environment.

PLEASE RSVP BY 6:00pm TONIGHT. To RSVP, email us at girlsofsteelrobotics@gmail.com and let us know your team plans on coming. We hope to see you there!

Pittsburgh Week Zero Practice Competition!

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Girls of Steel will be hosting a Pittsburgh area Week Zero practice competition event. This mini-competition will be officiated by Pittsburgh Regional referees. Collaboration between teams to finish our robots is highly encouraged. We hope to see you there!

What: Pittsburgh Week Zero practice competition

Where: FIRST Team 3504 Girls of Steel Practice Field, The Ellis Armory, address here.

When: Saturday, February 18th, from 11:00am to 3:00pm

Why: To offer area teams the opportunity to try their robots out under competition conditions and to give teams a chance to help others get their robots finished and ready for the Rebound Rumble regional competitions.

How: RSVP before 6:00 pm on February 15th by emailing girlsofsteelrobotics@gmail.com to let us know that your team will be attending.

Another busy day at the Ellis Armory Robotics Practice field.

Halfway There!

We are halfway through the build season!  The Girls of Steel have successfully built two working chassis with a mecanum drive and six wheel drop center drive train.  Every team ranging from chassis to programming had to help out to make sure the robots worked efficiently. Luckily, we were able to bring our chassis to our practice field at the Ellis Armory to really test out the robots.  By the end of the third week, we were able to balance both robots on the bridge in the middle of the field.

Every team member has learned so much and we have grown very close over the past three weeks.  We still have many more hours to spend in the machine shop, high bay, and electric lab as we build our robot for the Rebound Rumble competition.

Our team still has so much we need to get done, but with such a big group of hard working girls, we know that we can get it all done in time for the competition!