We are in a competition and could use your help! Simply click here to go to our photo on facebook and like, comment, and share it! (Contest closes 1/20)

We have also gotten numerous comments about how people LOVE our team t-shirts, so I thought I’d set up a shop where you can order them and help support the team. Click here to order a team t-shirt! (T-Shirt orders close 2/1 — NOTE: We need a minimum of 12 orders to ship, so order them up!)

The Story County 4-H FTC team # 7491, The Robot Corps, will be holding a team open house on Tuesday evening, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. at Christy Hall/4-H Hall (adjoining the Story County Extension Office in Nevada). We look forward to demonstrating what we’ve been working on during our competition season this year as we prepare for the FTC league tournament on Jan. 24 in Johnston. Come join us, check out our robot, visit with the team members and enjoy some refreshments. FIRST FTC is an international robotics program for youth ages 12-18, which focuses not only on robotics, but “gracious professionalism” at its core. More information can be found on the team’s website: http://ftc.runneals.com/. (Nevada Journal 1/15/2015)

Today’s meet was really good. 9 out of 11 teams from the Central Iowa Robotics League showed up and had a good meet! The team put on a good show as we had the second highest combined RP (406 behind CMB’s 418 points). However, we only finished 6th overall today, we did have the single highest match score in match 10 winning 170-158 (even after having to re-play that match FOUR times!)