First Scrimmage of the Season

On Saturday, November 13th Trial and Error Robotics was granted the opportunity to participate in a scrimmage event hosted by our friends FTC team #8651 “Wait For it” at the MSU Extension Office in Brandon MS. We had a blast competing and collaborating with our friends from teams #13176 Spark-O-Matics, #8781 the Ironclads, #16151 R…

New mentor: Mark Pollak

Our team has gained the recent addition of US army major Mark Pollack as an adult mentor. Mark, in his fourteen years of service in the army, has been stationed in nine states across the country and has been deployed abroad twice, first serving in Iraq and later in Poland. Currently he is fulfilling his…

Game Manual part one!

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) has released game manual part one for the FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) 2021-2022 game season “Freight Frenzy”. The game manual is, for those unacquainted, a document divided into part one and part two stating the rules and characteristics of the game that we will be playing…

Meet Mrs. Gordon

Education Outreach Coordinator for the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC) Tracy Gordon recently paid a visit to our team’s workshop. Because of her experience as an educator in the Vicksburg-Warren School District, we have had the fortunate opportunity of partnering with Mrs. Gordon in the planning and execution of some of our outreach…

Home again, Home again

Thanks to recently relaxed COVID-19 restrictions at Vicksburg’s Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), our team has been able to resume regular operations in our workshop in the ERDC Future Workforce Development (FWD) Center. After moving back into our workshop we invited Civil Engineer and friend of the team, Joseph Arthur, for a visit. We…