News

Weeks Four and Five 26 January - 7 February 2015

The Innovators are working hard to fit the parts together. Unfortunately, the groups did not always make sure their parts would all integrate together. The CAD’ed parts are being reworked and the parts are deconflicted to make things work together. Also, adjustments are being made to help prevent...

Week Three - Build 19 - 24 January 2015

The Innovators have worked manufacturing the parts to build the robot. With these parts manufactured, they finished assembling the base. Another group on the team finalized the CAD of the gripper. Other members have been machining gear base box plates for the driving motors. The programmers have...

Week Two Build 12 – 19 January 2015

The Innovators finalized the basic design during the second week of the build season. Each of the groups came up with the basic designs for the system they were working on. The team’s designs were integrated into the overall bot design. We began prototyping the individual systems...

Week One Build 5 - 10 January 2015

First, the Innovators started out going through the manual to determine what is and is not allowed during the game. (We don’t want to give the opposing alliance points due to our alliance making fouls.) It is necessary to identify the different ways to score. This helped the team to prioritize what...

2015 Kick-Off Day

On 3 January, the Innovators Robotics joined the Cougarbots (Team 2665 from Thurgood Marshall) and Robocalypse (Team 3777 from Lima, OH) for the FIRST Robotics Competition kick-off of the 2015 game, “Recycle Rush”. This cooperation allowed the teams to see some of the field elements that are new...

Mahoning Valley Open Tournament

The Mahoning Valley Open Tournament was held on September 20, at the Austintown Fitch High School. We arrived as one of the first couple teams there, pumped to get the robot running. We saw several familiar faces there along with a few foreign ones. We sent out a few team members to find the other...

2013 Boy Scouts Demonstrations

FRC Team 3138 Innovators Robotics demonstrated their robots to the Boy Scouts at the four summer camps at Woodland Trails (19 and 26 June and 10 and 17 July 2013) and at their Jamboree held at the Airport Convention Center (6 October 2013). The intent of the demonstrations was to instill an...

RoboProm at 2013 FRIST Worlds Competition

Odds are that 1,500 self-proclaimed geeks had a better time than you did Thursday night.

RoboProm at FRC Worlds

Rose-Hulman News article for the Cross Roads FRC. Identifies Justin Chu as a Dean's List Finalist.

Rose-Hulman News Article

The Innovators Robotics Team (FIRST FRC Team #3138), was founded in 2008 as a FIRST Tech Challenge (FIRST FTC Team #3311). Our team is based out of Vandalia, Ohio. Click below to learn more about our team!

FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology is an organization dedicated to promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to students through competitive robotics.