A powerful start to the robotics season
By Teresa Bonilla, TEMPO Graphics and Design Editor
January 16, 2018
On January 6 at 7 a.m., about 1,000 people gathered in the Terraceum for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) kickoff. Each year, a new FRC challenge is issued, and kickoff is the international time and date when the challenge is released. The only information teams have before kickoff is the name of the...
Robotics auction raises $12,500
By Vivian Nowka-Keane, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 10, 2016
Four robotics teams and their friends and family came together at Edmonds Community College for the 10th annual Robotics Family Festival and Fundraiser on Saturday, November 5th. The robotics teams of Edmonds Heights K-12, Mountlake Terrace High School, Lynwood High School and Edmonds Woodway ...
MTHS Robotics teams advance to quarterfinals in FIRST competition
By Stephi Smith, Executive Editor
March 16, 2016
On Saturday and Sunday, the MTHS Robotics team, Chill Out, competed against multiple other Washington state robotics teams in the annual FIRST Robotics competition. The theme of the competition was FIRST Stronghold and the game field was set up similar to a medieval setting, with game posts made to lo...
Annual First Robotics kick off held at MTHS
By Stephi Smith, Executive Editor
January 14, 2016
Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m., more than 40 robotics teams from across Washington state filled the Mountlake Terrace High School (MTHS) gym for the annual First Robotics kickoff. The teams viewed a livestreamed video of inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen announcing the contest’s specific rules ...