2020 - Infinite Recharge

This is our 2020 robot, Sprocket. We don’t have a lot of photos or videos of him because our only competition, the 2020 Orlando Regional, was canceled just minutes after it started. Due to the pandemic and everything shutting down, everyone had to pack up and go home. We were lucky: our build space was just minutes from the UCF Arena. But other teams had traveled from as far away as Brazil and Australia!

In INFINITE RECHARGESM, two alliances work to protect FIRST City from approaching asteroids caused
by a distant space skirmish. Each Alliance, along with their trusty droids, race to collect and score Power
Cells in order to energize their Shield Generator for maximum protection. To activate stages of the Shield
Generator, droids manipulate their Control Panels after scoring a specific number of Power Cells. Near
the end of the match, droids race to their Rendezvous Point to get their Shield Generator operational in
order to protect the city!

During the 15 second Autonomous Period, droids follow pre-programmed instructions. Alliances score
points by: