2023: Charged Up Blog

A page dedicated to archiving our greatest hits and achievements from FIRST Robotic Competition’s 2023 Season: Charged Up.

Saturday, December 2nd, 2023

Team 1781 hosted an FLL Qualifier at Lindblom and got the chance to introduce FLL students to our FRC bot The Claaaw. Our two FLL teams, 42743 & 36123, participated in the event coming in 1st and second place.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

The Behind The Bumpers with Team 1781 has been posted on the First Updates Now YouTube channel!

Saturday, November 18th, 2023

Team 1781 hosted an FTC meet at Lindblom HS today. Teams from across the city came to compete including 23427 & 23428, our very own FTC Teams. 

Saturday, November 11th, 2023

Team 1781 held the 2023 Chicago Robotic Alliance Conference. As always there were multiple sessions focusing on providing a place for teams to share aquired knowledge, have fun, and eat pizza!

Saturday, October 28th, 2023

Team 1781 competed at Roboteer Rumble this weekend! Thanks to the Roboteers (FRC Team 2481) for hosting this event! Our team had an amazing time and were lucky enough to receive a Behind The Bumpers interview.

Saturday, October 14th, 2023

Team 1781 thanks the Warrior Bots (FRC Team 6421) for hosting the TWIST event! This was an incredible experience!

Saturday, September 13th, 2023

Team 1781 hosted an FTC kickoff at Lindblom! Have a great 2023 season!!

Saturday, May 20th, 2023

Team 1781 was proud to showcase their robotics skills with the rest of the Chicago Robotic Alliance at The Museum Of Science & Industry. Click on the image to view the full article by WGN.

Saturday, May 13th, 2023

Team 1781 conducted several information sessions at Truman College today while also demonstrating their drive team’s skills. Thank you to all the other FRC, FTC, and FLL teams who made this event possible!

Tuesday-Saturday, April 18-22th, 2023

 We at Team 1781 are both proud and grateful to experience the FRC World Championship and graciously collaborate with teams from all over the globe. Thank you Baxter and Shure for sponsoring us as we spread our mission and the mission of FIRST!

Monday, April 17th, 2023

Team 1781 is grateful to welcome this extraordinary team of students from India to our school. We were proud to share our experiences with them and listen to their own experiences in their competitions. 

Saturday, April 9th, 2023

Very Proud to go to Houston Texas to compete in the championships. Team 1781 was just given a wildcard as a finalist @ the Greater Pittsburgh Regional. It took us a lot of effort to get here and we aren’t stopping anytime soon!

Saturday, April 8th, 2023

Team 1781 @ Pittsburgh Regional. We are very proud to receive the autonomous award. Our programmers worked exceedingly hard during the season to enable our robot to do a two-piece autonomous! Well done!

Saturday, March 11th, 2023

Team 1781 @ Midwest Regionals. We are very proud to receive the gracious professionalism award during this regional. As a team, we pride ourselves on being an example of the prime ideas of FIRST and try to never back down when it comes to assisting other teams. Rock on!

Tuesday, March 7th, 2023

Today the CRA went International welcoming robotic students from Turkey and South Africa!

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023

One press button scoring! Rock on!!

Saturday, February 25th, 2023

Smooth!

Saturday, February 25th, 2023

Autonomous testing!

Sunday, February 19th, 2023

Team work makes the dream work!

Sunday, February 19th, 2023

Autonomous balancing for charging station & newly added drop box. 

Saturday, February 18th, 2023

Score!

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Two robot balance.

Saturday, February 4th, 2023

New Claw prototype.

Saturday, February 4th, 2023

First autonomous trial.

Sunday, January 29th, 2023

Robot scrimmage. 

Thursday, January 26th, 2023

Collector design testing.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023

The robot prototype is now able to balance on the Charging Station.

Saturday, January 21st, 2023

Robot prototype fully assembled and testing at AIM.