Northern Nevada League Tournament at McQueen Highschool We’ve been busy the past few months and wanted to share a quick update! This last weekend, VC Silver Circuits had the honor of co-hosting the Northern Nevada League Tournament at McQueen High School in Reno. It was an incredible event filled with amazing robots, strong competition, and
VC Silver Circuits go to Rennervation at the Fourth Ward Schoolhouse in Virginia City What an incredible day volunteering with the Rennervation Foundation, helping give foster and at-risk youth a truly wonderful Christmas experience! We are so grateful for the opportunity to be part of such an amazing day. Our team designed and 3D printed 348 ornaments for the kids to decorate, making
The Silver Circuits at FIRST Worlds in Houston The Virginia City Silver Circuits did awesome at the Worlds Robotics Competition in Houston last week - they went further than the Silver Circuits have ever gone in the finals! Carson and Coen were there as mentors. The team at their booth in the pits The team after their alliance won
VC Silver Circuits - going to Worlds again! VC Silver Circuits is once again the Nevada State Inspire Award Champions!! With this award, we are advancing for the fourth year in a row to represent Nevada at the FIRST World Championship in Houston, TX, from April 19-22!
Nevada State Robotics Competition The team with their coaches and mentor (Rogan, Michelle, and Coen) The team doing their presentation for the judges The team sang parody lyrics to the Toto song, 'Rains in Africa' - referring to their teammate Elise, who is currently in Africa
Virginia City Silver Circuits - Northern Nevada League Tournament at Galena Highschool After months of preparation, we competed in the Northern Nevada League Tournament at Galena High School this Saturday! It was amazing to reconnect with our fellow robot friends and experience an exciting day of competition. All our hard work this season truly paid off! We faced some tough challenges—broken
Silver Circuits Competition at Reno Public Market The Silver Circuits had their first competition today at the Reno Public Market, which is a food court type place with a big open space perfect for this kind of competition. They had a round in the morning and again in the afternoon - they did well and finished in 1st
Battle Bots Some Silver Circuits guys got together at Rogan's house yesterday for a Battle Bots match. They each made a robot for battle. Rogan put together a field for the matches. Tucker's did well, but got damaged - that's ok! It's more fun that
FIRST Robotics World Competition in Houston, Texas We traveled with the team to Houston on Monday the week of Worlds. The team posed with another team from Mexico in the pit. The team in their pit - it's a place to display all aspects of the team and its accomplishments so the judges can observe, and
VC Silver Circuits fundraising night at Piper's Opera House There was trivia, a silent auction, raffle and pulled pork sandwiches - all proceeds going towards travel expenses for Worlds. drawing raffle tickets Rogan (in the silver jacket) announced trivia questions and people could buy a trivia sheet and put their answers down to later go towards prizes. Tucker brought his
State Robotics Competition We've had a crazy blizzard blowing through Reno that started on Thursday night, so by Friday night it was snowing. The State robotics competition was supposed to be at McQueen High School, but because of snow days, a new venue had to be found. Someone in the organization
Regional Robotics Competition at Galena Highschool The Virginia City Silver Circuits had a good day at the regional competition today at Galena Highschool. They did well in the qualifying matches and finished in 4th place. They were chosen as an alliance partner by the 1st place team, and they went on to win! The Silver Circuits
Hanging Lights at the Roasting House The VC Silver Circuits showed their festive spirit by lending a hand to The Roasting House, decking out the exterior with holiday decorations. Hats off to the team for spreading heartwarming holiday cheer! Swing by to admire the festive lights and treat yourself to a delicious cup of hot chocolate
Robotic Milking Machine We visited Top O' the Morn Farms, just outside of Tulare, CA to check out their robotic milking equipment. The owner, Ron Locke, showed us around and told us all about the machines. all the cows waiting in line to get milked
CANstruction Today the VC Silver Circuits teamed up, once again, with the AT&T Pioneers - Silver State Chapter 101 to construct another impressive CANstruction structure. Our own team member, Hunter, who is only 13, used his CAD skills to design the structure in Fusion360. This year’s structure is 9’
More Houston Worlds FIRST Robotics Competition In the pits, where teams have booths where they can work on their robot and have displays with information about their team. The Silver Circuits are the team in the silver capes some of the first matches our good friend Brian came to Houston from Reno to watch the competition
FIRST Robotics Championship in Houston, TX We arrived in Houston on Monday of the week of the robotics championship in order to get Carson there early so the VC Silver Circuits could get started on preparations. This is the apartment we stayed in for the week. It was very nice and we had a nice view.
State Robotics Competition in Las Vegas - Winning! We went to Foothill Highschool in Henderson, NV for the state competition, all day on Saturday. Melvin and Nan and Carson Teresa and Rogan matches preparing for matches They won! - after the final match with the Perpetual Motion team walking down the line to accept an award, The Silver Circuits
State Robotics Competition in Las Vegas: Walking around down on the strip We had some free time on the Friday before the competition day, so we went and walked around the Paris hotel on the strip. We met up with Cara, Gary and Atlas - it was super good to see them. We heard good things about this cake - even though it was
The Silver Circuits - State Robotics Competition in Las Vegas: Battle Bots and Hoover Dam Carson's team went to a Battle Bots show the first night we were in Vegas, so we joined in and checked it out. It was pretty fun, it wasn't an actual competition, it was just for fun. The next morning, we drove over the Hoover Dam;
The Silver Circuits Carson is part of the Silver Circuits robotics team. They applied for and won a scholarship from the Dolan Auto Group. The Silver Circuits had a competition a few days ago in Sparks They won! Their robot has two arms and it stacked the most cups on the rod.
carson these-last-few-months-ive-been-working These last few months, I've been working on our robot for my lego robotics team, Mindstorm Masters, in FLL (First Lego League). Our robot is tasked to move around a field with different missions on it, and complete those missions to earn points in a certain amount of
Carson's robotics club Carson was invited to be a coach to a robotics club for 9-11 year olds. He has been attending their meetings twice a week now for about 4 months. We made a robot to complete some missions around a map with the missions spread around it. Each mission is
Programming Microbits You can buy these small circuit boards on Amazon called Microbits (about $16). They connect to the computer and allow the kids to program the LED array, accelerometers, radio, buttons, etc. on them. It is really powerful and educational.
