Penn Robotics Team 135

Penn Robotics took a roadtrip to Wisconsin this past weekend and had the opportunity to compete with teams in a whole new territory at the Seven Rivers Regional Event. This event gave our team a good amount of experience and told us what we needed to take care of out of state before going to our state playoffs in a few weeks.

The Black Knights found themselves to be 3rd pick for the number 2 alliance in the playoffs. A huge Shoutout to alliance captain and second pick for having us a part of the alliance and showing some good midwest hospitality to us.

While not making it to the finals we were able to receive the honor of being awarded the Autonomous Award sponsored by Google.org by "offloading vision to an onboard Mac Mini, they used simulations to develop a Pathfinder that constantly checks for states so it can adapt to its surroundings."

A huge thank you to FIRST in Wisconsin for having us and allowing us to be apart of their culture. Looking forward to seeing the teams in Indiana at state!!

Penn Robotics had a productive first event for this year's FRC season. This event, 135 won the Innovation in Control Award by thanks to our addition of our Mac Mini for our programing. 328 Won the Spirit award with their outstanding. Stay tuned to see what our team does to improve and rebuild for our Lafayette competition at the end of march!!

PENN HIGH SCHOOL’S MISHAWAKA DISTRICT EVENT IS OFFICIALLY ON!!! Come see Penn Robotics compete at their home turf, comfy for a great time with food trucks and robots!! Event is open to the public entrance at Door D to the gymnasium.

Penn Robotics took a trip down the road to visit Queen of Peace on their stem club night to showcase our DevBot. We were able to show how what we do in our shop with building robots connects to real world situations with team building and failing.

What better way to wrap up our short circuits season this year than our short circuits celebration where our students had the chance to show their families the code they have been working on over the last 4 weeks. A huge thank you to the PHM Education Foundation and various major sponsors for helping us continue to introduce the coding concept of STEM and Robotics to the the 2nd and 3rd graders in our community.

This week marks the final day of our 2025 Short Circuits program. This year was a major success and we look forward to another season next year. Don't forget to come to the celebration with your Short Circuits student this Sunday at the high school!!

Another huge thank you to everyone who bought pies for our Thanksgiving Pie Fundraiser and another thank you to United Pies of Elkhart!!

We are excited to say that the first week of our short circuits program has been a huge success last week. stay tuned to see how we changed up the program this year!!

oin Penn Robotics at the Bittersweet Trunk or Treat at 5:00 pm!! See what the robotics team engineered for the event!!