Updates
10,000 Lakes regional
We all had a great time at the 10,000 Lakes Regional competition, and are happy to announce that we won the FIRST Impact Award! We are going to Houston, Texas for worlds on April 17-20! A massive thanks to everyone who's supported us along our journey.
Pre-Season Kickoff
As new members have trickled in, The Centurions have kicked off our pre-season. New members are tasked to build a new robot for a practice "mini season" to allow their new skills to blossom.
Centurions Compete at the Lacrosse northstar and duluth northern lights regionals!
During the Northern Lights Regional, The Centurions were featured on Fox 21 for news coverage of the event. As the 2023 comes to a close for us, reflection beings and innovation is planned for victory next season!
Meet Mercury!
2/16/23
Our 2023 season robot is really coming along! It even has a name now. It is named after the Roman God of Innovation: Mercury!
the real work begins! 1/19/23
Now that build season has begun, the whole team is working hard to design, code, and then eventually build the robot!
An amazing start to 2023! 1/7/23
Kickoff was awesome! We're already hard at work, making concepts and designs! Robot name is TBD.
Working hard, not hardly working! 12/8/22
Working on taking Spes apart and setting up the new swerve drive!
High hopes after invitational! 10/15/22
Everyone had a great time at the Minnesota Robotics Invitational! It was a great way to bond and practice, and we placed 9th in the tournament!
Homecoming Parade! 09/30/22
We were joined by the CMS Lego League robotics team to represent Centennial robotics in the homecoming parade.
Ready for the North Star Regional!!! 03/29/2022
We have greatly improved our robot since our last competition (Week Zero) and we are ready for the North Star Regional at Mariucci Arena on April 8th and 9th, See you there!
Ready for week zero!!! 02/24/2022
We are adding some finishing touches to the robot for the Week Zero competition at Irondale High School this Saturday!! We hope to see you there!!
Robot is coming together! 02/10/2022
The climbers and electronics for our robot are coming along nicely, We are also planning some new SWAG for this year!!
New Frame! 01/20/2022
This week we received our frame for the new robot, We are also making some of the elements for this year's game. We are ready to build!
Rapid React! 01/08/2022
Today was the kick-off for the 2022 game, Rapid React, We got together to watch this year's kick-off live stream. Already we have started strategizing this year's game and planning this year's robot. We also got our kit of parts and our team t-shirts for this year, Happy building!
Ready For Kick-off! 01/06/2022
We have been preparing since the end of September for this year's kick-off, New and returning members of the team have been practicing their skills, We have also attended two regional competitions during the pre-season, Today was the last meeting before the kick-off (01/08/2022) and we are ready for the 2022 build season!!
thank you lucy's burgers! 11/17/2021
Yesterday night, we held a fundraiser at Lucy's Burgers in Blaine from 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. During those hours, the Centennial Robotics Booster received a portion of the profits from food and drink sales at Lucy's Burgers. A handful of students and parents were volunteering during this time. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and Thank you Lucy's Burgers for allowing us to hold the fundraiser.
First Meeting! 9/29/2021
Our first official meeting for the 2021 Pre-Season! First we introduced new members to our team and explained the goals of robotics and 2472. Then, we did stations for each department in our team to teach new members about them and they decided which ones they would like to be a part of. Our numbers have nearly doubled since last year!
Here we go! 3/25/2021
We have just completed our virtual judging session and it went great! We are now pulling or drive team together and putting the finishing touches on our robot. We will soon be taking videos to show the judges how the robot works and it moving by itself. This year has been a blessing in disguise. With being able to continues to work on our robot from last year. Our new team members have been able to learn a lot and continue to learn how to make a robot and how it works.
Keep on pushing! 2/13/2021
As we near the normal competition season, our team has been checking things off our to-do list left and right. The team has been preparing for the video submissions required for this year's virtual competition. We have also been busy with making sure everything is in perfect shape so we can perform to our best ability for this year's competition.
Hitting the ground running! 1/26/2021
We have gotten permission to have meetings in school again and have started to meet more regularly. With everyone following the rules we have been able to get more stuff done. The programmers were able to hook up the controls to the motor. The CAD team have started redrawing the Shooter on the robot. The mechanical team has added air tanks to the robot and removed the turret.
a new BEGINNING! 11/05/2020
We got so many new people this year we don't know what to do. Everyone has found their department that they like and have gotten straight to work. Today we have the programmers learning new code and the mechanical organizing the robot parts and in turn learning how the robot and parts work.
Another Day, Another Meeting! 10/22/2020
We are back and we are finally able to begin meeting in person one day a week. We are so excited for all the new faces showing up, everyone is following all safety protocols, and getting back into the swing of things.
FIRST MEETING! 9/24/2020
With the pandemic here and here to stay. School up and running again. The robotics team must push through. Today we had our first official meeting in months. We are so happy to be seeing each other again and working together.
Food drive! 7/22/2020
Over the week are team did a food drive for the Centennial Community Food Shelf at Our Savior's Church. Sitting out in the hot grueling sun was a blast! We had fun seeing new and old friends. Getting to better know the community was a gift that we would love to do again.
Great Northern Regional! 2/27-2/29/2020
We had a great time at the Great Northern Regional at Grand Forks. We had a blast competing with everyone. It was great learning experience for us and we cannot wait for North Star at Mariucci in Minneapolis, see you all there!
Almost there! 2/22/2020
Hey guys, we're almost ready to head to Grand Forks ND, only a couple meeting left for us. This week we finished mounting our shooter mechanism, and it is up and running. We're almost done with our climbing mechanism too. We can't wait for Grand Forks, we hope to see some of you guys there!
WEEK ZERO! 2/18/2020
Sorry for the late update, We had an eventful Saturday co-hosting our Week Zero event with Irondale high school. At Week Zero we were able to finish our ball collector and train our new members with driving. Hopefully you all had a successful week zero, see you next week!
Getting Closer! 2/8/2020
This week we have continued to prefect our code our 2020 robot. We also began to mount our shooting mechanism onto our robot, along with our climbing mechanism. See you next week!
Spirit! 2/1/2020
This week we got closer to perfecting our shooting mechanism. We also decorated out hallway for our schools Winter Week. Along with decorating, we nested into our new storage space by putting us old 2472 memorabilia. See you next week!
New Frame! 1/25/2020
This week we finished the frame for our new robot! We are also working on six wheel drive. Another thing we are working on is the bar that the robot will hang off of. See you next week!
Hard work! 1/18/2020
This week, We continued to work on the designs and prototypes for our ball collector, ball shooter, and lift mechanism. Programming has been working hard on coding and practicing with our 2019 robot. We ordered our team shirts and purchased the Limelight 2+ camera. See you next week!
Progress! 1/11/2020
This week, We dismantled our 2018 robot and built a whiteboard just for our team. We also organized our new storage space and finalized our t-shirt design. Today we are planning more handouts for the Great Northern Regional and North Star Regional. See you next week!
KICK OFF! 1/4/2020
Happy 2020 Kickoff! Today we gathered for breakfast as a team and watched the live stream of the Kickoff together. Afterwards we began strategizing ideas for our Infinite Recharge robot. Happy building!
New plan! 12/16/2019
Hey guys! Today we are making a plan for this season's kickoff. Also finding more leaders within our team. We have found a solution for the seat belt for our toy vehicle modification project. This is our last meeting before break, Happy Holidays to all!
RESTART! 12/9/2019
Today we are doing a lot of new things! We have submitted an animation for the Safety Animation Award for the first time, ever! Another new thing we have is a reporter for the school's newspaper here interviewing us.
Rebuilding! 12/2/2019
Hey guys! This week the team is working on rebuilding last year's robot, as well as training some of our new recruits. Despite the cold weather, things are heating up for the Centurions and our robot, Apollo as competition season draws nearer.
Reboot! 11/25/2019
Hey guys! This weekend we had our preseason competition in Prior Lake. We've welcomed many new members and are super excited for this season to officially start!
Hey guys!!
Hey guys! Mechanical continues to work on the pistons while Electrical continues to wire the bot! Programming is working out errors and Media is working on our handouts for competition
Hey all!!!
Hey all! Media has started to coat the pit with the first layer of paint, while CAD has added a lights and a camera to the CAD model. Electrical is working on the board while Mechanical is mounting pistons on the lift. Programming is working on autonomous.
Happy saturday!!!
Happy Saturday everyone! Today Media is gonna finally start re-painting the pit and getting T-Shirts. Mechanical is still working on the frame and CAD finished modeling the robot! Very eventful week!!
Working hard!
Many of the new members are learning the fundamentals of their respective departments! Mechanical member Devon was demonstrating how to grind a bolt.
Recruitment Night went well!
Our President (lower right), Programming Captain (upper right), Media Captain (lower left), and Media Trainee (upper left) went around the school last week for conferences to recruit some new members! 11/19/18
Fixin' The Pit!
This week Media took out the pit and we started to get to work touching it up. We sanded it down and then put a fresh layer of paint on and we're working on give away designs.
work on bot continues as usual!
This week Mechanical worked on the frame for the Robot
CAd and programming talked 'bout manipulators!
This week CAD and Programming talked about Manipulators
Robot frame Built!
This week mechanical worked on the frame for the robot and its all finished up! Electrical Is gonna begin work on the electrical board soon.
Media got a trophy cabinet!!!
This week Media worked on the pit with mud and today Media is gonna begin work on Painting. Also Media got a trophy cabinet for trophies!
Programming and Cad!
This week Programming did automatic Climbing sub system algorithm block chain internet of things. CAD did CADing on the robot frame.