Ava the dog demonstrates the importance of safety glasses in the shop. If a dog can do it, we can all choose to wear our appropriate PPE! Everything is going nice … Read More
2019 Build Season – Week 1
Engineering, Design, and Safety have combined to create collaborative mini groups working on each of the game elements. It takes a group of multidisciplinary Pirates to build an Arrgh-mazing robot! … Read More
Week Six Review
Time is up! Week six has concluded! Build time is over!We have worked very hard these past six weeks to get a robot ready for competition. In this final week, … Read More
Tutu much fun!
For our robot reveal on Monday, February 19, our female members adorned their handmade tutus and added a little, okay, maybe a lot of glitter to everyone’s day as we … Read More
Robot Reveal
On Monday, February 19, we unveiled our robot for the PowerUp game! Riptide is its name and it can complete all the tasks it has been assigned. Riptide can climb, … Read More
Week Five Review
Weeoo, Weeoo, Weeoo!Fire alarms are blaring!Tick-tock!, Tick-tock!The time is running off the clock!The Pirates are really feeling the time pressure of the last weeks setting in. With Week 5 over … Read More
Week Four Review
“Wi-Fi?!?!?””Anyone on PublicWLAN?””Anyone on SecureWLAN?””Anyone? Bueller?””Wi-Fi D-O-W-N!”The Wi-Fi has given the Pitt Pirates lots of woes the past two weeks in the shop! As more and more sub teams are … Read More
Week Three Review
After the snow delayed exams and shop time multiple times, the Pitt Pirates finally made it to their exams and back into the shop. So many weather delays! However, the … Read More
Week Two Review
More winter weather hit Eastern North Carolina, home to our Pitt Pirates in the second week of build season. Due to an early release and cancellation for schools in Pitt … Read More