by Chloe Schwartz February 12th-15th is know to most as Winter Weekend, but to the members of the Fighting Unicorns, it’s Epic Weekend. First of all, here’s a little background on how FIRST Robotics Competition works: The first Saturday of January is Kickoff. The year’s challenge is released to the entire world at the same time. From then on,…
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Build Season 2k16: Stronghold
by Chloe Schwartz Welcome to the First Robotics Competition of 2016: FRC Stronghold! The object of the game: score as many points as you can, into either low or high goals of your opponent’s tower, using boulders (dodgeballs). If you get above eight points, surround the tower to capture it and gain one rank point! Robots must cross…
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Build Season 2k16: Stronghold
by Chloe Schwartz Welcome to the First Robotics Competition of 2016: FRC Stronghold! The object of the game: score as many points as you can, into either low or high goals of your opponent’s tower, using boulders (dodgeballs). If you get above eight points, surround the tower to capture it and gain one rank point!…
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Robotics Team Update: October 2015
by Chloe Schwartz The Ingenuity Fest is held every year at the Great Lakes Science Center in downtown Cleveland. It’s a festival that brings together innovators, dreamers, and makers of all kinds, celebrating creativity and all who create. Team 2399 was invited to present again a few weekends ago, and on the Saturday morning that the pier area opened…
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Innovation. Design. Engineering. Art. : An Inside Look at HB’s IDEA Lab
by Chloe Schwartz The basement route is the same as ever. Fourth grade murals stretch across the walls of the basement corridors as Vivaldi’s Gloria echoes from the choir room. But as you reach the elevator doors and take a left, a bright light shines out from the space that used to be the Invention…
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Book Review on Fahrenheit 451: A Book That Burns (Almost Literally)
By: Chloe Schwartz “‘We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?’” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 I’d been meaning to pick up Fahrenheit 451 for a while. I actually have a…
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HB IN RETROSPECT 