2024: Crescendo Blog

A page dedicated to updating you on our team’s latest progress. Listed below you will find all of our achievements from 2023’s Charged Up season to the present.

Thursday-Saturday, April 17th-20th, 2024

That’s a wrap! Team 1781 had an AWESOME Crescendo season. Our team was the 3rd pick of the 8th alliance in the Hopper Division. Our alliance made it to match 13 in our division’s playoffs. Team 1781 students would like to thank all of our parents, sponsors, and mentors for making this season successful. We couldn’t have had this year without all of you!

Thursday-Saturday, March 28th-30th, 2024

Team 1781 was a semi-finalist at this year’s Midwest Regional. Congratulations to our alliance captain, Wolf-Byte, for receiving a wildcard for Champs! We also got to hang our with other Chicago teams in a tailgate party. All in all, this was a great Midwest and we can’t wait until next year!

Tuesday, March 26th , 2024

Today the Chicago Robotics Alliance ran a scrimmage and potluck at AIM with 12 FRC teams in attendance. We also played an FRC group scavenger hunt and basketball! This was an incredible experience and we would like to thank the Aviation Institute of Maintenance for allowing us to run this event at their location.

Monday-Tuesday, March 25th-26th , 2024

Our team was proud to host two amazing international teams (FRC Teams 4731 & 6402) in the Baxter Innovation Lab to help them prepare for the Midwest Regional. This was a great experience for all of our teams and we can’t wait to see each other compete this week!

Friday-Sunday, March 15th-17th , 2024

Team 1781 had an amazing time at the Wisconsin Regional in Milwaukee. We teamed up with the 7th Alliance which included Team 6823 USM Robotics and Team 1259 Paradigm Shift! 

Saturday, March 9th , 2024

Team 1781 is very proud, and excited to win the Arkansas Regional Engineering Inspiration Award, which allows us to once again go to Houston to compete in the Championships! All of our outreach requires an unspeakable amount of sacrifice from our mentors and members  

Saturday, January 6th-7th , 2024

Crescendo!! Team 1781 held the Chicago Robotic Alliance Kick-off at AIM this Saturday and Sunday. Illinois teams got to watch the game reveal, strategize, play a rule’s kahoot, and of course eat pizza! Special shout-out to the FIRST parents and alumni from all the teams at the event for building the Crescendo practice field in 2 days! Here’s to an amazing season!

Friday, January 5th , 2024

Happy New Year! Team 1781 started the new year tearing down the Charged Up Chicago Robotic Alliance practice field at AIM. Crescendo is around the corner!