Colonel Patterson Visit!

On November 17th, Trial and Error Robotics had the pleasure of hosting ERDC’s Colonel Christian Patterson in our workshop at ERDC’s Future Workforce Development (FWD) Center. During his visit, we presented the Colonel with the operations of our team, as well as information on Gracious Professionalism and the FIRST organization as a whole. We spoke…

Carl Hearn and Upcoming Resume Class!

On Thursday, April 14th, members of Trial and Error Robotics were visited by friend of the team, Carl Hearn. Our team is collaborating with Carl, a past chairman of the Vicksburg-Warren Chamber of Commerce, to host an upcoming resume writing class for our team members and members of our community. During his visit, Mr. Hearn…

Elections!

With the start of a new season approaching, we’ve decided to elect new team and sub-team captains. This is the first year that we’ve ever had open elections for these positions. For our method of election we used something called “Preferential voting,” this is a system of voting in which the voter ranks candidates in…

ERDC Alumni tour

On 3/15/19 we opened the doors to our shop for the ERDC (Engineering Research and Development Center) Alumni Association. The ERDC Alumni Association is comprised of people who have a passion for STEM and have formerly worked at ERDC. We opened our shop to them so that they could experience what have accomplished in furthering…

Mega Meetings #4

Today’s the day! The wait is finally over. The epic conclusion to the most revered series of the century…. no, of all time…………………………………….MEGA MEETINGS NUMBER FOUR The programmers have been working on encoder positions for our lifting mechanism “The Evan”. Once they finished work on that, they worked on programming “The Evan” to raise and…